Acts 16:24

16:24 Receiving such orders, he threw them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.

Job 34:32

34:32 Teach me what I cannot see.

If I have done evil, I will do so no more.’

Isaiah 1:16-17

1:16 Wash! Cleanse yourselves!

Remove your sinful deeds

from my sight.

Stop sinning!

1:17 Learn to do what is right!

Promote justice!

Give the oppressed reason to celebrate!

Take up the cause of the orphan!

Defend the rights of the widow!

Isaiah 58:6

58:6 No, this is the kind of fast I want.

I want you to remove the sinful chains,

to tear away the ropes of the burdensome yoke,

to set free the oppressed,

and to break every burdensome yoke.

Isaiah 58:9

58:9 Then you will call out, and the Lord will respond;

you will cry out, and he will reply, ‘Here I am.’

You must remove the burdensome yoke from among you

and stop pointing fingers and speaking sinfully.

Matthew 3:8

3:8 Therefore produce fruit that proves your repentance,

Matthew 5:7

5:7 “Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

James 2:13

2:13 For judgment is merciless for the one who has shown no mercy. But mercy triumphs over judgment.