Psalms 103:3

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.

Cross-references · 24

• Exod 15:26and he said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”
• Isa 53:5But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.
• Jer 17:14Heal me, O Yahweh, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you are my praise.
• Ps 30:2Yahweh my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.
• Ps 41:3–4Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness.
• Ps 147:3He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
• Mark 2:10–11But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins” — he said to the paralytic —
• Jas 5:15and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
• Isa 43:25I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
• Mark 2:5Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.”
• Luke 7:47–48Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little.”
• Ps 107:17–22Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because of their iniquities.
• Num 12:13Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “Heal her, God, I beg you!”
• Eph 1:7in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
• Isa 33:24The inhabitant won’t say, “I am sick.” The people who dwell therein will be forgiven their iniquity.
• Ps 130:8He will redeem Israel from all their sins.
• 2 Sam 12:13David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against Yahweh.” Nathan said to David, “Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.
• Matt 9:2–6Behold, they brought to him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a bed. Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven you.”
• Num 21:7–9The people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against Yahweh, and against you. Pray to Yahweh, that he take away the serpents from us.” Moses prayed for the people.
• Ps 32:1–5By David. A contemplative psalm. Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
• Ps 38:1–7A Psalm by David, for a memorial. Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
• Ps 51:1–3For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
• Exod 34:7keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”
• Ps 41:8“An evil disease”, they say, “has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.”

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