James 2:13

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For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

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  • Prov 21:13 : 13 Whoever shuts their ears to the cry of the poor will also cry out and not be answered.
  • Matt 5:7 : 7 Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
  • Matt 6:15 : 15 But if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
  • Matt 18:28-35 : 28 But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii. He seized him and began to choke him, saying, 'Pay back what you owe me!' 29 His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, 'Be patient with me, and I will repay you.' 30 But he refused. Instead, he went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay the debt. 31 When the other servants saw what had happened, they were greatly distressed and went and told their master everything that had happened. 32 Then the master summoned the servant and said to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me to.' 33 'Shouldn't you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had mercy on you?' 34 In anger, his master handed him over to the jailers to be tortured until he should pay back all he owed. 35 This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother or sister from your heart.
  • Luke 6:37 : 37 Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
  • Matt 25:41-46 : 41 Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry, and you gave me nothing to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me nothing to drink; 43 I was a stranger, and you did not take me in; I was naked, and you did not clothe me; I was sick and in prison, and you did not visit me.’ 44 Then they too will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not serve you?’ 45 Then he will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, to the extent that you did not do it for one of the least of these, you did not do it for me.’ 46 And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.
  • Matt 7:1-2 : 1 Do not judge, so that you will not be judged. 2 For with the standard you use to judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
  • Mic 7:18 : 18 Who is a God like You, forgiving iniquity and passing over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance? He does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in steadfast love.
  • Ps 18:25 : 25 So the LORD has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in His sight.
  • Eph 2:4-7 : 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loved us, 5 made us alive together with Christ, even when we were dead in our transgressions—by grace you have been saved. 6 And He raised us up with Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. 7 So that in the coming ages He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
  • 1 John 4:8-9 : 8 The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 By this, the love of God was revealed among us: that God sent His only Son into the world so that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us. 13 By this, we know that we remain in Him and He in us: He has given us of His Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in them, and they in God. 16 And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in them.
  • Ps 85:10 : 10 Surely his salvation is near to those who fear him, so that his glory may dwell in our land.
  • Job 22:6-9 : 6 For you have taken pledges from your brothers without cause, and stripped the naked of their clothing. 7 You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry. 8 But the powerful man owns the land, and the honored man dwells in it. 9 You sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed. 10 That is why snares are all around you, and sudden terror overwhelms you.
  • Luke 16:25 : 25 But Abraham replied, 'Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here, and you are in agony.'
  • Eph 1:6-7 : 6 to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved. 7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace,
  • Gen 42:21 : 21 They said to one another, 'Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw the anguish of his soul when he begged us, but we would not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.'
  • Judg 1:7 : 7 Then Adoni-bezek said, "Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to gather scraps under my table. As I have done, so God has repaid me." They brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.
  • Isa 27:11 : 11 When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and light them on fire. For this is a people without understanding; therefore, their Maker will not have compassion on them, and their Creator will not show them favor.
  • Jer 9:24 : 24 The days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh.
  • Ezek 33:11 : 11 Say to them, 'As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn from their ways and live. Turn back! Turn back from your evil ways! Why should you die, house of Israel?'
  • 1 John 4:18-19 : 18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been made perfect in love. 19 We love because He first loved us.
  • Jas 5:4 : 4 Look, the wages that you withheld from the workers who harvested your fields are crying out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

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