2 Chronicles 28:11

With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man you will show yourself perfect.

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged.

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

But if you don’t forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

He said to them, “Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and more will be given to you who hear.

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

Yahweh said to Moses, “I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.

‘Yahweh says, “You shall not go up, nor fight against your brothers! Every man return to his house; for this thing is of me.” ’ ” So they listened to Yahweh’s words, and returned from going against Jeroboam.

Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.

With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.

Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t destroyed, and who betray, but nobody betrayed you! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betrayal, you will be betrayed.

Therefore Yahweh says: “You have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim to you a liberty,” says Yahweh, “to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine. I will make you be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.

Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

Yahweh said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to Yahweh before the sun, that the fierce anger of Yahweh may turn away from Israel.”

Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies. You will go out one way against them, and will flee seven ways before them. You will be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.

You will father sons and daughters, but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.

Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn’t delight in blessing, and it was far from him.

The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

Yahweh of Armies says: “The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together. All who took them captive hold them fast. They refuse to let them go.

therefore, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I will do according to your anger, and according to your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them when I judge you.

So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”

Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.

For I see that you are in the poison of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity.”

For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

If anyone injures his neighbor, it shall be done to him as he has done:

Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.

The men said to her, “Our life for yours, if you don’t talk about this business of ours; and it shall be, when Yahweh gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you.”

Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their big toes cut off, scavenged under my table. As I have done, so God has done to me.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women!” Then Samuel cut Agag in pieces before Yahweh in Gilgal.

He must restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity!”

In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa was diseased in his feet. His disease was exceedingly great: yet in his disease he didn’t seek Yahweh, but just the physicians.

He also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel.

Please restore to them, even today, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you are charging them.”

Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy. You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.

Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;

Yet they didn’t listen to me or incline their ear, but made their neck stiff. They did worse than their fathers.

Shout against her all around. She has submitted herself. Her bulwarks have fallen. Her walls have been thrown down, for it is the vengeance of Yahweh. Take vengeance on her. As she has done, do to her.

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, from which you will not remove your necks, neither will you walk haughtily; for it is an evil time.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.

If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

For they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this.”

“ ‘If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

Notwithstanding, Yahweh didn’t turn from the fierceness of his great wrath, with which his anger burned against Judah, because of all the provocation with which Manasseh had provoked him.

The children of Israel carried away captive of their brothers two hundred thousand women, sons, and daughters, and also took away much plunder from them, and brought the plunder to Samaria.

Now don’t be stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.

Now let our princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let all those who are in our cities who have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and its judges, until the fierce wrath of our God is turned from us, until this matter is resolved.”

All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His offspring is blessed.

So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory.

Princes shall come out of Egypt. Ethiopia shall hurry to stretch out her hands to God.

until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.

He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil.

Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.

He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.

The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.

He who despises his neighbor sins, but he who has pity on the poor is blessed.

“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?

Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.”

“Say to your brothers, ‘My people!’ and to your sisters, ‘My loved one!’

I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’ and they will say, ‘My God!’ ”

For the day of Yahweh is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

“The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged them to be at peace again, saying, ‘Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?’

Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.

But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.

But about Israel he says, “All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”

Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.

Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.