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Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
Psalms 103:3 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB who forgives all your sins; who heals all your diseases;
  • BSB He who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases,
  • NKJV Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases,
  • NASB Who pardons all your guilt, Who heals all your diseases;
  • NLT He forgives all my sins and heals all my diseases.

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Quick answer

The first benefits named are forgiveness of all sins and healing of all diseases. Pardon for guilt is God's foremost mercy, the foundation of every other blessing.

Overview

David lists God's benefits beginning with the deepest need: forgiveness of every sin. Healing of diseases is paired with it, for sin and its effects on body and soul are bound together. The fullness of this pardon is achieved in Christ, who bore our sins and by whose stripes we are healed (1 Peter 2:24).

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 24

  • Exod 15:26And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.
  • Isa 53:5But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
  • Jer 17:14Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.
  • Ps 30:2O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
  • Ps 41:3–4The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
  • Ps 147:3He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
  • Mark 2:10–11But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,)
  • Jas 5:15And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
  • Isa 43:25I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
  • Mark 2:5When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.
  • Luke 7:47–48Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.
  • Ps 107:17–22Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
  • Num 12:13And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee.
  • Eph 1:7In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
  • Isa 33:24And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.
  • Ps 130:8And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
  • 2 Sam 12:13And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.
  • Matt 9:2–6And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.
  • Num 21:7–9Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.
  • Ps 32:1–5Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
  • Ps 38:1–7O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
  • Ps 51:1–3Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
  • Exod 34:7Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
  • Ps 41:8An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 103:3 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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