Psalms 116:5

Yahweh is gracious, righteous, and merciful. It matters because God's character is the ground of all our hope in distress.

Cross-references · 26

• Ps 103:8The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion.
• Ps 145:17The LORD is righteous in all His ways and kind in all His deeds.
• Ps 119:137Righteous are You, O LORD, and upright are Your judgments.
• Ezra 9:15O LORD, God of Israel, You are righteous! For we remain this day as a remnant. Here we are before You in our guilt, though because of it no one can stand before You.”
• 1 Tim 1:14And the grace of our Lord overflowed to me, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
• Ps 86:15But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.
• Eph 1:6–8to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.
• Neh 9:8You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, of the Jebusites and Girgashites—to give it to his descendants. You have kept Your promise, because You are righteous.
• Dan 9:7To You, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but this day we are covered with shame—the men of Judah, the people of Jerusalem, and all Israel near and far, in all the countries to which You have driven us because of our unfaithfulness to You.
• Ps 112:4Light dawns in the darkness for the upright—for the gracious, compassionate, and righteous.
• Exod 34:6–7Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,
• Dan 9:14Therefore the LORD has kept the calamity in store and brought it upon us. For the LORD our God is righteous in all He does; yet we have not obeyed His voice.
• Eph 2:4But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
• Ps 145:4–8One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts—
• Neh 9:17They refused to listen and failed to remember the wonders You performed among them. They stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return them to their bondage in Egypt. But You are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in loving devotion, and You did not forsake them.
• Neh 9:31But in Your great compassion, You did not put an end to them; nor did You forsake them, for You are a gracious and compassionate God.
• Isa 45:21Speak up and present your case—yes, let them take counsel together. Who foretold this long ago? Who announced it from ancient times? Was it not I, the LORD? There is no other God but Me, a righteous God and Savior; there is none but Me.
• Jer 12:1Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?
• Dan 9:9To the Lord our God belong compassion and forgiveness, even though we have rebelled against Him
• Rom 5:20–21The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
• 1 Jn 1:9If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
• Ps 115:1Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to Your name be the glory, because of Your loving devotion, because of Your faithfulness.
• Neh 9:33You are just in all that has befallen us, because You have acted faithfully, while we have acted wickedly.
• Ps 86:5For You, O Lord, are kind and forgiving, rich in loving devotion to all who call on You.
• Titus 3:4–7But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared,
• Rom 3:25–26God presented Him as the atoning sacrifice through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.

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