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 merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
• Ps 145:17The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.
• Ps 119:137Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments.
• Ezra 9:15O LORD God of Israel, thou art righteous: for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this.
• 1 Tim 1:14And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
• Ps 86:15But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, long suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
• Eph 1:6–8To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
• Neh 9:8And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous:
• Dan 9:7O LORD, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.
• Ps 112:4Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
• Exod 34:6–7And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
• Dan 9:14Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.
• Eph 2:4But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
• Ps 145:4–8One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.
• Neh 9:17And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.
• Neh 9:31Nevertheless for thy great mercies’ sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.
• Isa 45:21Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.
• Jer 12:1Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
• Dan 9:9To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;
• Rom 5:20–21Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
• 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 unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth’s sake.
• Neh 9:33Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:
• Ps 86:5For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
• Titus 3:4–7But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,
• Rom 3:25–26Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

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