James 2:13
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13 For (A)judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
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Matthew 6:15
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15 (A)but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
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Matthew 5:7
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7 “Blessed are (A)the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
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Luke 6:37
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Judging Others
37 (A)(B)“Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; (C)forgive, and you will be forgiven;
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Proverbs 21:13
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13 (A)Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor
will himself call out and not be answered.
Matthew 18:28-35
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28 But when that same servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred (A)denarii,[a] and seizing him, he began to choke him, saying, ‘Pay what you owe.’ 29 So his fellow servant fell down and pleaded with him, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you.’ 30 He refused and went and put him in prison until he should pay the debt. 31 When his fellow servants saw what had taken place, they were greatly distressed, and they went and reported to their master all that had taken place. 32 Then his master summoned him and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me. 33 (B)And should not you have had mercy on your fellow servant, as I had mercy on you?’ 34 (C)And in anger his master delivered him to the jailers,[b] (D)until he should pay all his debt. 35 (E)So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother (F)from your heart.”
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- Matthew 18:28 A denarius was a day's wage for a laborer
- Matthew 18:34 Greek torturers
Ephesians 2:4-7
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4 But[a] God, being (A)rich in mercy, (B)because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even (C)when we were dead in our trespasses, (D)made us alive together with Christ—(E)by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and (F)seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable (G)riches of his grace in (H)kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
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- Ephesians 2:4 Or And
Matthew 25:41-46
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41 “Then he will say to those on his left, (A)‘Depart from me, you (B)cursed, into (C)the eternal fire prepared for (D)the devil and his angels. 42 For (E)I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’ 44 Then they also will answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?’ 45 Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, (F)you did not do it to me.’ 46 And these will go away (G)into eternal punishment, but the righteous (H)into (I)eternal life.”
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Matthew 7:1-2
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Judging Others
7 (A)“Judge not, that you be not judged. 2 (B)For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and (C)with the measure you use it will be measured to you.
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Psalm 85:10
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Psalm 18:25
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25 With (A)the merciful you show yourself merciful;
with the blameless man you show yourself blameless;
1 John 4:18-19
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18 There is no fear in love, but (A)perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not (B)been perfected in love. 19 (C)We love because he first loved us.
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Micah 7:18
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God's Steadfast Love and Compassion
18 (A)Who is a God like you, (B)pardoning iniquity
and passing over transgression
(C)for the remnant of his inheritance?
(D)He does not retain his anger forever,
because he delights in steadfast love.
1 John 4:8-16
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8 (A)Anyone who does not love does not know God, because (B)God is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that (C)God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, (D)not that we have loved God (E)but that he loved us and sent his Son to be (F)the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 (G)No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and (H)his love is perfected in us.
13 (I)By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14 And (J)we have seen and testify that (K)the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of (L)the world. 15 (M)Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 So (N)we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. (O)God is love, and (P)whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
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Jeremiah 9:24
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24 but (A)let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. (B)For in these things I delight, declares the Lord.”
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Job 22:6-10
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6 For you have (A)exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing
(B)and stripped the naked of their clothing.
7 You have given no water to the weary to drink,
and you have (C)withheld bread from the hungry.
8 (D)The man with power possessed the land,
and (E)the favored man lived in it.
9 You have (F)sent widows away empty,
and (G)the arms of (H)the fatherless were crushed.
10 Therefore (I)snares are all around you,
and sudden terror overwhelms you,
James 5:4
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4 Behold, (A)the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and (B)the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of (C)the Lord of hosts.
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Ezekiel 33:11
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11 Say to them, (A)As I live, declares the Lord God, (B)I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; (C)turn back, turn back from your evil ways, (D)for why will you die, O house of Israel?
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Genesis 42:21
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21 Then they said to one another, (A)“In truth we are guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us and we did not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.”
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Luke 16:25
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25 But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that (A)you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish.
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Isaiah 27:11
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11 When its boughs are dry, they are broken;
women come and make a fire of them.
(A)For this is a people without discernment;
therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them;
he who formed them will show them no favor.
Judges 1:7
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7 And Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and their big toes cut off (A)used to pick up scraps under my table. (B)As I have done, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
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