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 103:8Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.
• Ps 145:17Yahweh is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works.
• Ps 119:137You are righteous, Yahweh. Your judgments are upright.
• Ezra 9:15Yahweh, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guiltiness; for no one can stand before you because of this.”
• 1 Tim 1:14The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
• Ps 86:15But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.
• Eph 1:6–8to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,
• Neh 9:8found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his offspring, and have performed your words; for you are righteous.
• Dan 9:7Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as it is today; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.
• Ps 112:4Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.
• Exod 34:6–7Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
• Dan 9:14Therefore has Yahweh watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.
• Eph 2:4But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
• Ps 145:4–8One generation will commend your works to another, and will declare your mighty acts.
• 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.
• Neh 9:31“Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you did not make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful God.
• Isa 45:21Declare and present it. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven’t I, Yahweh? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior; There is no one besides me.
• Jer 12:1You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?
• Dan 9:9To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we have rebelled against him;
• Rom 5:20–21The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;
• 1 Jn 1:9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
• Ps 115:1Not to us, Yahweh, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your loving kindness, and for your truth’s sake.
• Neh 9:33However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly.
• Ps 86:5For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
• Titus 3:4–7But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared,
• Rom 3:25–26whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;

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