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Blessed are the merciful: forr they shall obtain mercy.

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Psa. 41:1‑2• ¹To the chief musician; a psalm of David.{HR}Blessed [is] he that payeth attention to the poor;{HR}In the day of evil Jehovah will deliver him.
²Jehovah will preserve him and keep him alive:{HR}He shall be prospered in the land;{HR}And do not thou give him up to the will of his enemies. (Psa. 41:1‑2)

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Matt. 6:14‑15• ¹⁴For if ye forgive men their offenses, your heavenly Father also will forgive you [yours];
¹⁵but if ye forgive not men their offenses, neither will your Father forgive your offenses. (Matt. 6:14‑15)

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Matt. 18:33‑35• ³³oughtedst not thou also to have pitied thy fellow-bondman, as I also pitied thee?
³⁴And his lord, in wrath, delivered him to the tormentors till he should pay all that was owing to him.
³⁵Thus also shall my heavenly Father do to you, if ye forgive not from your hearts each his brother. (Matt. 18:33‑35)

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2 Sam. 22:26• ²⁶With the gracious thou dost show thyself gracious;{HR}With the upright man thou dost show thyself upright;{HR} (2 Sam. 22:26)

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Job 31:16‑22• ¹⁶If I kept back the poor from [their] desire,{HR}And the eyes of the widow made to pine,
¹⁷Or ate my morsel by myself,{HR}And the orphan had not eaten of it
¹⁸(For from my path I brought him up as a father,{HR}And her I guided from my mother’s womb);
¹⁹If I saw [any] perishing without clothing,{HR}And the needy without covering;
²⁰If his loins blessed me not,{HR}And he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
²¹If I shook my hand over the orphan,{HR}When I saw my help in the gate;
²²Let my shoulder fall from the blade,{HR}And mine arm be broken from the bone. (Job 31:16‑22)

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Psa. 18:25• ²⁵With the merciful thou showest thyself merciful,{HR}With the upright man thou showest thyself upright. (Psa. 18:25)

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Psa. 37:26• ²⁶All the day [is he] being gracious and lending;{HR}And his seed [is] for a blessing. (Psa. 37:26)

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Psa. 41:1‑4• ¹To the chief musician; a psalm of David.{HR}Blessed [is] he that payeth attention to the poor;{HR}In the day of evil Jehovah will deliver him.
²Jehovah will preserve him and keep him alive:{HR}He shall be prospered in the land;{HR}And do not thou give him up to the will of his enemies.
³Jehovah will hold him up on the bed of languishing:{HR}All his bed thou hast turned in his sickness.
⁴I said, O Jehovah, be merciful to me,{HR}Heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee. (Psa. 41:1‑4)

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Psa. 112:4,9• ⁴There ariseth in the darkness light for the upright:{HR}Gracious and merciful and righteous [is he].
⁹He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor;{HR}His righteousness standeth forever,{HR}His horn shall be exalted with glory. (Psa. 112:4,9)

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Prov. 11:17• ¹⁷The merciful man doeth good to his own soul,{HR}But the cruel troubleth his own flesh. (Prov. 11:17)

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Prov. 14:21• ²¹He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth;{HR}But he that is gracious to the afflicted, happy [is] he. (Prov. 14:21)

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Prov. 19:17• ¹⁷He that hath pity on the poor lendeth to Jehovah;{HR}And his bestowal will he pay him again. (Prov. 19:17)

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Isa. 57:1• ¹The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth [it] to heart; and merciful men [are] taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from before the evil. (Isa. 57:1)

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Isa. 58:6‑12• ⁶[Is] not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the thongs of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
⁷[Is it] not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor wanderers to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
⁸Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy healing shall spring forth speedily; and thy righteousness shall go before thee, the glory of Jehovah shall be thy rearward.
⁹Then shalt thou call, and Jehovah shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I [am]. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and the speaking vanity;
¹⁰and [if] thou proffer thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in darkness, and thine obscurity [be] as the noonday:
¹¹and Jehovah will guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make strong thy bones; and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters deceive not.
¹²And [they that shall be] of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called Repairer of the breach, Restorer of paths of habitation. (Isa. 58:6‑12)

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Dan. 4:27• ²⁷Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity. (Dan. 4:27)

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Mic. 6:8• ⁸He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? (Mic. 6:8)

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Mark 11:25• ²⁵And when ye stand praying, forgive if ye have anything against anyone, that your Father also who is in the heavens may forgive you your offences. (Mark 11:25)

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Luke 6:35• ³⁵But love your enemies, and do good and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be sons of [the] Highest; for he is good to the unthankful and wicked. (Luke 6:35)

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Eph. 4:32• ³²and be to one another kind, compassionate, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ hath forgiven you. (Eph. 4:32)

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Eph. 5:1• ¹Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children, and walk in love, (Eph. 5:1)

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Col. 3:12• ¹²Put on therefore, as elect of God, holy [and] beloved, bowels of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, long-suffering; (Col. 3:12)

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James 3:17• ¹⁷But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, uncontentious, impartial. (James 3:17)

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Hos. 1:6• ⁶And she conceived again, and bore a daughter. And he said unto him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah; for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel, so that I should pardon them. (Hos. 1:6)

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Hos. 2:1,23• ¹Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.
²³And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, my people thou; and they shall say, my God. (Hos. 2:1,23)

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Rom. 11:30• ³⁰For as ye once were disobedient to God but now have been shown mercy through their disobedience, (Rom. 11:30)

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1 Cor. 7:25• ²⁵Now concerning virgins command of [the] Lord have I none, but I give an opinion as having received mercy of [the] Lord to be faithful. (1 Cor. 7:25)

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2 Cor. 4:1• ¹On this account, having this ministry, according as we obtained mercy, we faint not, (2 Cor. 4:1)

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1 Tim. 1:13,16• ¹³though before I was a blasphemer and persecutor and doer of outrage. But I had mercy shown me because I did [it] ignorantly in unbelief;
¹⁶But for this cause mercy was shown me that in me, [as] chief, Christ might display the whole long-suffering for an outline-sketch of those that should believe on him unto life eternal. (1 Tim. 1:13,16)

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2 Tim. 1:16‑18• ¹⁶The Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus; for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain;
¹⁷but being in Rome he sought me out diligently and found [me];
¹⁸(the Lord grant him to find mercy from [the] Lord in that day.) And in how many things he ministered at Ephesus thou knowest very well. (2 Tim. 1:16‑18)

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Heb. 4:16• ¹⁶Let us approach therefore with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and find grace for seasonable help. (Heb. 4:16)

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Heb. 6:10• ¹⁰For God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the love which ye showed unto his name, in that ye ministered to his saints and do minister. (Heb. 6:10)

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James 2:13• ¹³for the judgment [is] merciless to him that showed no mercy. Mercy glorieth over judgment. (James 2:13)

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1 Peter 2:10• ¹⁰who once [were] no people but now God's people, the unpitied, but now pitied. (1 Peter 2:10)

• As righteousness is the key note of the first four, so grace is that which lies at the root of the latter three; and, therefore, the very first of them demonstrates not merely that they are righteous and that they feel what is due to God, but they appreciate the love of God, and maintain it in the midst of surrounding evil. (“Remarks on Matthew 5:1-17” by W. Kelly)

• They shall taste afresh what the mercy of God is towards their own souls, in the exercise of mercy towards others. (“Remarks on Matthew 5:1-17” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Blessed the merciful, for *they* shall find mercy.

W. Kelly Translation

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Blessed the merciful; for they shall obtain mercy.