2 Samuel 2:6

Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.

But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn’t forsake them.

Yahweh is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.

He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.

Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t curse.

not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.

For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers and your children will find compassion before those who led them captive, and will come again into this land, because Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.”

For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.

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

I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.

Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.

Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

For your loving kindness is great above the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

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.

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.

He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he fell asleep.

When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.

for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.

Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went wherever they could go. Saul was told that David was escaped from Keilah; and he gave up going there.

For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

Therefore “If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head.”

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh Gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Make a covenant with us, and we will serve you.”

Now Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son who was lame in his feet. He was five years old when the news came about Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel; and his nurse picked him up and fled. As she hurried to flee, he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.

David said, “Is there yet any who is left of Saul’s house, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan’s sake?”

Till the land for him, you, your sons, and your servants. Bring in the harvest, that your master’s son may have bread to eat; but Mephibosheth your master’s son will always eat bread at my table.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

For all my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more to the king?”

But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table; for so they came to me when I fled from Absalom your brother.

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

Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.

For your great loving kindness reaches to the heavens, and your truth to the skies.

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

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”

He said to David, “You are more righteous than I; for you have done good to me, whereas I have done evil to you.

So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem; for he ate continually at the king’s table. He was lame in both his feet.

He answered, “You shall not strike them. Would you strike those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.”

Esther had not made known her people nor her relatives, because Mordecai had instructed her that she should not make it known.

if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),

He has caused his wonderful works to be remembered. Yahweh is gracious and merciful.

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

Yahweh is Gracious and righteous. Yes, our God is merciful.

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.

If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink;

and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life.

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

“If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.

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.”

After the earthquake a fire passed; but Yahweh was not in the fire. After the fire, there was a still small voice.

and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life;

Moreover there were at my table, of the Jews and the rulers, one hundred fifty men, in addition to those who came to us from among the nations that were around us.

Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.

Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents.

He shall be enthroned in God’s presence forever. Appoint your loving kindness and truth, that they may preserve him.

then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, but he will condemn a man of wicked plans.

One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.

‘Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.

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

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?

Don’t trust in a neighbor. Don’t put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!

You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

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.

For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

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

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,

The king said, “Is there not yet any of Saul’s house, that I may show the kindness of God to him?” Ziba said to the king, “Jonathan still has a son, who is lame in his feet.”

David said to him, “Don’t be afraid; for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father’s sake, and will restore to you all the land of Saul your father. You will eat bread at my table continually.”

David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent by his servants to comfort him concerning his father. David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.

I gave you your master’s house, and your master’s wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that would have been too little, I would have added to you many more such things.

Whereas you came but yesterday, should I today make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you.”

He will send from heaven, and save me, he rebukes the one who is pursuing me. God will send out his loving kindness and his truth.

Don’t they go astray who plot evil? But love and faithfulness belong to those who plan good.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Now the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus,