Quotes About Mercy

Because of all your abominations, I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again.

I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.í

Very soon I will pour out My wrath upon you and vent My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways and repay you for all your abominations.

But as for Me, I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. I will bring their deeds down upon their own heads.”

But I will spare a few of them from sword and famine and plague, so that in the nations to which they go, they can recount all their abominations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”

then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if these three men were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. They alone would be delivered.

Then I passed by and saw you wallowing in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, ëLive!í There I said to you, ëLive!í

So I will lay to rest My wrath against you, and My jealousy will turn away from you. Then I will be calm and no longer angry.

Furthermore, Samaria did not commit half the sins you did. You have multiplied your abominations beyond theirs, and all the abominations you have committed have made your sisters appear righteous.

But I will restore Sodom and her daughters from captivity, as well as Samaria and her daughters. And I will restore you along with them.

He does not oppress another, or retain a pledge, or commit robbery. He gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.

He withholds his hand from harming the poor and takes no interest or usury. He keeps My ordinances and follows My statutes. Such a man will not die for his fatherís iniquity. He will surely live.

Yet you may ask, ëWhy shouldnít the son bear the iniquity of his father?í Since the son has done what is just and right, carefully observing all My statutes, he will surely live.

None of the transgressions he has committed will be held against him. Because of the righteousness he has practiced, he will live.

Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Lord GOD. Wouldnít I prefer that he turn from his ways and live?

Because he considered and turned from all the transgressions he had committed, he will surely live; he will not die.

For I take no pleasure in anyoneís death, declares the Lord GOD. So repent and live!

Yet I looked on them with pity and did not destroy them or bring them to an end in the wilderness.

But I withheld My hand and acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

Say to them: ëAs surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?í

But if I tell the wicked man, ëYou will surely die,í and he turns from his sin and does what is just and right—

None of the sins he has committed will be held against him. He has done what is just and right; he will surely live.

But if a wicked man turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he will live because of this.

I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and transgressions, and I hid My face from them.