Psalms 86:5

The Lord is good, ready to forgive, and abundant in love to all who call on Him. God's gracious character is the ground of confident prayer.

Cross-references · 29

• Ps 145:8–9The LORD is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion.
• Joel 2:13So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.
• Exod 34:6Then 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,
• Ps 103:8The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion.
• 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.
• Acts 2:21And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’
• 1 Jn 4:8–9Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
• Ps 145:18The LORD is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth.
• Ps 25:8Good and upright is the LORD; therefore He shows sinners the way.
• Ezek 36:37This is what the Lord GOD says: Once again I will hear the plea of the house of Israel and do for them this: I will multiply their people like a flock.
• Eph 1:6–8to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.
• Ps 86:15But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.
• Mic 7:18Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
• Rom 10:12–13For there is no difference between Jew and Greek: The same Lord is Lord of all, and gives richly to all who call on Him,
• Ps 130:7O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD is loving devotion, and with Him is redemption in abundance.
• Ezek 36:33This is what the Lord GOD says: On the day I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be resettled and the ruins to be rebuilt.
• Dan 9:9To the Lord our God belong compassion and forgiveness, even though we have rebelled against Him
• John 4:10Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
• Rom 5:20–21The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
• Jer 33:3Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.
• Ps 119:68You are good, and You do what is good; teach me Your statutes.
• Luke 11:9–10So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
• Ps 130:4But with You there is forgiveness, so that You may be feared.
• Ps 69:16Answer me, O LORD, for Your loving devotion is good; turn to me in keeping with Your great compassion.
• Ps 36:7How precious is Your loving devotion, O God, that the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings!
• Jonah 4:2So he prayed to the LORD, saying, “O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish. I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion—One who relents from sending disaster.
• Isa 55:7Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.
• Eph 2:4But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
• Ps 52:1For the choirmaster. A Maskil of David. After Doeg the Edomite went to Saul and told him, “David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.” Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The loving devotion of God endures all day long.

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