James 5:11

We count those who endured blessed, as Job's perseverance shows God's compassionate purpose. Endurance leads to seeing the Lord's mercy in the end.

Cross-references · 40

• Jas 1:12Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.
• Exod 34:6Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
• Job 1:21–22He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”
• Matt 10:22You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.
• Isa 55:6–7Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
• Matt 5:10–11Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
• Job 42:10–17Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.
• 2 Pet 2:9the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;
• Ps 86:15But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.
• Job 2:10But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.
• Num 14:18‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’
• 1 Pet 1:13Therefore prepare your minds for action, be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ —
• Lam 3:22It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail.
• Ps 103:8Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.
• Luke 6:36“Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.
• Job 13:15–16Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
• 1 Pet 1:6–7Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials,
• Heb 10:39But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.
• Mic 7:18Who 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.
• Dan 9:18–19My God, turn your ear, and hear; open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name: for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake.
• Eph 2:4But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
• Heb 3:14For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:
• 1 Chr 21:13David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into Yahweh’s hand; for his mercies are very great. Don’t let me fall into man’s hand.”
• Luke 1:50His mercy is for generations of generations on those who fear him.
• Ps 25:6–7Yahweh, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness, for they are from old times.
• Ps 119:132Turn to me, and have mercy on me, as you always do to those who love your name.
• Eph 1:6to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,
• Eccl 7:8Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
• Ps 136:1–26Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever.
• Neh 9:17and 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.
• Jonah 4:2He 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.
• Heb 3:6but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.
• Ps 103:13Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.
• Ps 116:5Yahweh is Gracious and righteous. Yes, our God is merciful.
• 2 Chr 30:9For 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.”
• Ps 37:37Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.
• Job 1:2There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.
• Ps 78:38But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn’t stir up all his wrath.
• Joel 2:13Tear 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.
• Ps 86:5For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.

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