Psalm 116:5

Bible in Basic English 1965

The Lord is full of grace and righteousness; truly, he is a God of mercy.

Cross References

Ezra 9:15

O Lord God of Israel, righteousness is yours; we are only a small band which has been kept from death, as at this day: see, we are before you in our sin; for no one may keep his place before you because of this.

Nehemiah 9:17

And would not do them, and gave no thought to the wonders you had done among them; but made their necks stiff, and turning away from you, made a captain over themselves to take them back to their prison in Egypt: but you are a God of forgiveness, full of grace and pity, slow to wrath and great in mercy, and you did not give them up.

Nehemiah 9:31

Even then, in your great mercy, you did not put an end to them completely, or give them up; for you are a God of grace and mercy.

Nehemiah 9:33

But still, you have been in the right in everything which has come on us; you have been true to us, but we have done evil:

Nehemiah 9:8

You saw that his heart was true to you, and made an agreement with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Jebusite and the Girgashite, even to give it to his seed, and you have done what you said; for righteousness is yours:

Psalm 103:8

The Lord is kind and full of pity, not quickly made angry, but ever ready to have mercy.

Psalm 112:4

For the upright there is a light shining in the dark; he is full of grace and pity.

Psalm 115:1

Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name let glory be given, because of your mercy and your unchanging faith.

Psalm 119:137

TZADE O Lord, great is your righteousness, and upright are your decisions.

Psalm 145:17

The Lord is upright in all his ways, and kind in all his works.

Psalm 86:15

But you, O Lord, are a God full of pity and forgiveness, slow to get angry, great in mercy and wisdom.

Psalm 86:5

You are good, O Lord, and full of forgiveness; your mercy is great to all who make their cry to you.

Isaiah 45:21

Give the word, put forward your cause, let us have a discussion together: who has given news of this in the past? who made it clear in early times? did not I, the Lord? and there is no God but me; a true God and a saviour; there is no other.

Jeremiah 12:1

You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?

Daniel 9:14

So the Lord has been watching over this evil and has made it come on us: for the Lord our God is upright in all his acts which he has done, and we have not given ear to his voice.

Daniel 9:7

O Lord, righteousness is yours, but shame is on us, even to this day; and on the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and on all Israel, those who are near and those who are far off, in all the countries where you have sent them because of the sin which they have done against you.

Daniel 9:9

With the Lord our God are mercies and forgiveness, for we have gone against him;

Ephesians 2:4

But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us,

1 Timothy 1:14

And the grace of our Lord was very great, with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

1 John 1:9

If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil.