James 2:13

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy; yet mercy triumphs over judgment.

Cross References

Genesis 42:21

Then they said to one another, “In truth we are guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he besought us and we would not listen; therefore is this distress come upon us.”

2 Chronicles 28:11

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

Psalm 18:25

With the loyal thou dost show thyself loyal; with the blameless man thou dost show thyself blameless;

Psalm 85:10

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

Proverbs 21:13

He who closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself cry out and not be heard.

Proverbs 22:16

He who oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to want.

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 discernment; therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, he that formed them will show them no favor.

Jeremiah 9:24

but let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practice steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth; for in these things I delight, says the Lord.”

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 his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways; for why will you die, O house of Israel?

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like thee, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger for ever because he delights in steadfast love.

Matthew 5:7

“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

Matthew 6:15

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

Luke 16:25

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

Luke 6:37

“Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven;

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, without uncertainty or insincerity.

James 5:4

Behold, 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.

Judges 1:7

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

Judges 5:27

He sank, he fell, he lay still at her feet; at her feet he sank, he fell; where he sank, there he fell dead.