Matthew 5:7
Good News Translation
"Happy are those who are merciful to others; God will be merciful to them!

New Revised Standard Version
“Blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy.

Contemporary English Version
God blesses those people who are merciful. They will be treated with mercy!

New American Bible
Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

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Matthew 6:14,15 For if you will forgive men their offences, your heavenly Father will forgive you also your offences. . . .

Matthew 18:33-35 Shouldst not thou then have had compassion also on thy fellow servant, even as I had compassion on thee? . . .

2 Samuel 22:26 With the holy one thou wilt be holy: and with the valiant perfect.

Job 31:16-22 If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made the eyes of the widow wait: . . .

Psalm 18:25 With the holy thou wilt be holy; and with the innocent man thou wilt be innocent:

Psalm 37:26 He sheweth mercy, and lendeth all the day long; and his seed shall be in blessing.

Psalm 41:1-4 Unto the end, a psalm for David himself. [2] Blessed is he that understandeth concerning the needy and the poor: the Lord will deliver him in the evil day. . . .

Psalm 112:4,9 To the righteous a light is risen up in darkness: he is merciful, and compassionate and just. . . .

Proverbs 11:17 The wicked maketh an unsteady work: but to him that soweth justice, there is a faithful reward.

Proverbs 14:21 He that despiseth his neighbour, sinneth: but he that sheweth mercy to the poor, shall be blessed. He that believeth in the Lord, loveth mercy.

Proverbs 19:17 He that hath mercy on the poor, lendeth to the Lord: and he will repay him.

Isaiah 57:1 The just perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart, and men of mercy are taken away, because there is none that understandeth; for the just man is taken away from before the face of evil.

Isaiah 58:6-12 Is not this rather the fast that I have chosen? loose the bands of wickedness, undo the bundles that oppress, let them that are broken go free, and break asunder every burden. . . .

Daniel 4:27 And the king answered, and said: Is not this the great Babylon, which I have built, to be the seat of the kingdom, by the strength of my power, and in the glory of my excellence?

Micah 6:8 I will shew thee, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requireth of thee: Verily to do judgment, and to love mercy, and to walk solicitous with thy God.

Mark 11:25 And when you shall stand to pray, forgive, if you have aught against any man: that your Father also, who is in heaven, may forgive you your sins.

Luke 6:35 But love ye your enemies: do good, and lend, hoping for nothing thereby: and your reward shall be great, and you shall be the sons of the Highest. For he is kind to the unthankful and to the evil.

Ephesians 4:32 And be ye kind one to another: merciful, forgiving one another, even as God hath forgiven you in Christ.

Ephesians 5:1 Be ye therefore followers of God, as most dear children:

Colossians 3:12 Put ye on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, the bowels of mercy, benignity, humility, modesty, patience:

James 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above, first indeed is chaste, then peaceable, modest, easy to be persuaded, consenting to the good, full of mercy and good fruits, without judging, without dissimulation.

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Hosea 1:6 And she conceived again, and bore a daughter, and he said to him: Call her name, Without mercy: for I will not add any more to have mercy on the house of Israel, but I will utterly forget them.

Hosea 2:1,23 Say ye to your brethren: You are my people: and to your sister: Thou hast obtained mercy. . . .

Romans 11:30 For as you also in times past did not believe God, but now have obtained mercy, through their unbelief:

1 Corinthians 7:25 Now, concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord: but I give counsel, as having obtained mercy of the Lord, to be faithful.

2 Corinthians 4:1 Therefore seeing we have this ministration, according as we have obtained mercy, we faint not.

1 Timothy 1:13,16 Who before was a blasphemer and a persecutor and contumelious. But I obtained the mercy of God, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. . . .

2 Timothy 1:16-18 The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus: because he hath often refreshed me and hath not been ashamed of my chain: . . .

Hebrews 4:16 Let us go therefore with confidence to the throne of grace: that we may obtain mercy and find grace in seasonable aid.

Hebrews 6:10 For God is not unjust, that he should forget your work and the love which you have shewn in his name, you who have ministered and do minister to the saints.

James 2:13 For judgment without mercy to him that hath not done mercy. And mercy exalteth itself above judgment.

1 Peter 2:10 Who in times past were not a people: but are now the people of God. Who had not obtained mercy: but now have obtained mercy.

Context
The Beatitudes
6Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice: for they shall have their fill. 7Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. 8Blessed are the clean of heart: they shall see God.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 17:28
Brought him beds, and tapestry, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and meal, and parched corn, and beans, and lentils, and fried pulse,

2 Samuel 22:26
With the holy one thou wilt be holy: and with the valiant perfect.

Psalm 18:25
With the holy thou wilt be holy; and with the innocent man thou wilt be innocent:

Proverbs 11:17
The wicked maketh an unsteady work: but to him that soweth justice, there is a faithful reward.

Proverbs 11:25
He that hideth up corn, shall be cursed among the people: but a blessing upon the head of them that sell.

Matthew 6:14
For if you will forgive men their offences, your heavenly Father will forgive you also your offences.

Matthew 6:15
But if you will not forgive men, neither will your Father forgive you your offences.

Matthew 18:33
Shouldst not thou then have had compassion also on thy fellow servant, even as I had compassion on thee?

James 2:13
For judgment without mercy to him that hath not done mercy. And mercy exalteth itself above judgment.

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