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For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
Psalms 86:5 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
  • BSB For You, O Lord, are kind and forgiving, rich in loving devotion to all who call on You.
  • NKJV For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, And abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You.
  • NASB For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, And abundant in mercy to all who call upon You.
  • NLT O Lord, you are so good, so ready to forgive, so full of unfailing love for all who ask for your help.

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Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 29

  • Ps 145:8–9Yahweh is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.
  • Joel 2:13Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.
  • Exod 34:6Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
  • 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.
  • Ps 103:8Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.
  • Acts 2:21It will be that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.’
  • 1 Jn 4:8–9He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
  • Ps 25:8Good and upright is Yahweh, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.
  • Ps 145:18Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
  • Ezek 36:37Thus says the Lord Yahweh: For this, moreover, will I be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.
  • 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,
  • Rom 10:12–13For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.
  • Ps 130:7Israel, hope in Yahweh, for with Yahweh there is loving kindness. With him is abundant redemption.
  • Mic 7:18Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
  • Dan 9:9To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we have rebelled against him;
  • Jer 33:3‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don’t know.’
  • Rom 5:20–21The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;
  • John 4:10Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
  • Luke 11:9–10“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.
  • Ps 119:68You are good, and do good. Teach me your statutes.
  • Ezek 36:33Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be built.
  • Jonah 4:2He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.
  • Ps 130:4But there is forgiveness with you, therefore you are feared.
  • Ps 36:7How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.
  • Ps 69:16Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.
  • Isa 55:7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
  • Ps 52:1For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, “David has come to Ahimelech’s house.” Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.
  • Eph 2:4But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

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