Mercy Bible Quiz — Questions and Answers
All 10 questions with the correct answer, a short explanation, and the King James Version reference. Use this page as a study guide, an answer key, or a quick review sheet.
Q1.What does Psalm 136 repeat in every verse?
- A. His mercy is new every morning
- B. For his mercy endureth for ever ✓
- C. The LORD is my shepherd
- D. Blessed be the LORD
Answer: For his mercy endureth for ever
O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever… repeated twenty-six times.
Q2.What did the publican say at the temple?
- A. I thank thee that I am not as other men
- B. God be merciful to me a sinner ✓
- C. I keep all the commandments
- D. I am righteous
Answer: God be merciful to me a sinner
And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
Q3.What does Lamentations 3:22-23 say about God's mercies?
- A. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness ✓
- B. They are exhausted
- C. They are only for the righteous
- D. They are conditional
Answer: They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness
It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
Q4.What does Matthew 5:7 say about the merciful?
- A. They shall obtain mercy ✓
- B. They shall be wealthy
- C. They shall rule
- D. They shall be feared
Answer: They shall obtain mercy
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
Q5.Who showed mercy to the wounded traveller in the parable of the Good Samaritan?
- A. The priest
- B. The Levite
- C. The Samaritan ✓
- D. The innkeeper
Answer: The Samaritan
But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him.
Q6.What does Ephesians 2:4-5 say God is rich in?
- A. Wealth
- B. Mercy, and for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ ✓
- C. Power only
- D. Knowledge
Answer: Mercy, and for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
Q7.What does Hosea 6:6 say God desires?
- A. Sacrifice only
- B. Mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings ✓
- C. Wealth
- D. Power
Answer: Mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Q8.What does Hebrews 4:16 say we may obtain?
- A. Mercy, and find grace to help in time of need ✓
- B. Wealth and honour
- C. Victory in battle
- D. Eternal life without faith
Answer: Mercy, and find grace to help in time of need
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Q9.What did the prodigal son ask his father for?
- A. Make me as one of thy hired servants ✓
- B. Give me my inheritance
- C. Forgive me not
- D. Let me rule the estate
Answer: Make me as one of thy hired servants
I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
Q10.What does James 2:13 say about judgment and mercy?
- A. Judgment is always without mercy
- B. For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment ✓
- C. Mercy is weak
- D. Judgment is better than mercy
Answer: For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment
For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.