James 2:13

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For judgment will be without mercy to anyone who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.

Cross References

Matthew 5:7

“Blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy.

Matthew 6:15

but if you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Proverbs 21:13

If you close your ear to the cry of the poor, you will cry out and not be heard.

Luke 6:37

“Do not judge, and you will not be judged; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven;

Psalm 18:25

With the loyal you show yourself loyal; with the blameless you show yourself blameless;

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over the transgression of the remnant of his possession? He does not retain his anger forever because he delights in showing steadfast love.

Psalm 85:10

Steadfast love and faithfulness will meet; righteousness and peace will kiss each other.

Jeremiah 9:24

but let those who boast boast in this, that they understand and know me, that I am the Lord; I act with steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for in these things I delight, says the Lord.

Judges 1:7

Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table; as I have done, so God has paid me back.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

Ezekiel 33:11

Say to them: As I live, says the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked turn from their ways and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?

Genesis 42:21

They said to one another, “Alas, we are paying the penalty for what we did to our brother; we saw his anguish when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this anguish has come upon us.”

James 5:4

Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

Luke 16:25

But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things and Lazarus in like manner evil things, but now he is comforted here, and you are in agony.

Isaiah 27:11

When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and make a fire of them. For this is a people without understanding; therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them; he who formed them will show them no favor.

2 Chronicles 28:11

Now hear me, and send back the captives whom you have taken from your kindred, for the fierce wrath of the Lord is upon you.”

Proverbs 22:16

Oppressing the poor in order to enrich oneself, and giving to the rich, will lead only to loss.

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy.

Judges 5:27

Between her feet he sank, he fell, he lay still; between her feet he sank, he fell; where he sank, there he fell dead.