James 5:11

Catholic Public Domain Version

Consider that we beatify those who have endured. You have heard of the patient suffering of Job. And you have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is merciful and compassionate.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 21:13

And David said to Gad: "There are difficulties pressing upon me from every side. But it is better for me to fall into the hands of the Lord, for his mercies are many, than into the hands of men."

2 Chronicles 30:9

For if you will return to the Lord, your brothers and sons will find mercy before their masters, who led them away as captives, and they will be returned to this land. For the Lord your God is compassionate and lenient, and he will not avert his face from you, if you will return to him."

Nehemiah 9:17

And they were not willing to hear, and they did not remember, your miracles which you had accomplished for them. And they hardened their necks, and they offered their head, so that they would return to their servitude, as if in contention. But you, a forgiving God, lenient and merciful, longsuffering and full of compassion, did not abandon them.

Nehemiah 9:31

Yet in your very many mercies, you did not cause them to be consumed, nor did you abandon them. For you are a compassionate and lenient God.

Job 1:1

There was a man in the land of Uz named Job, and he was a simple and honest man, fearing God and withdrawing from evil.

Job 1:2

And there had been born to him seven sons and three daughters.

Job 2:10

He said to her, "You have spoken like one of the foolish wives. If we accepted good things from the hand of God, why should we not accept bad things?" In all this, Job did not sin with his lips.

Job 23:10

Truly, he knows my way and has tested me like gold that passes through fire.

Psalm 103:13

You irrigate the mountains from your heights. The earth will be satiated from the fruit of your works,

Psalm 103:8

The mountains ascend, and the plains descend, to the place which you have founded for them.

Psalm 145:8

The Lord enlightens the blind. The Lord sets upright those who have been thrown down. The Lord loves the just.

Psalm 51:1

Unto the end. The understanding of David.

Psalm 86:5

Will not Zion say that this man and that man were born in her? And the Most High himself has founded her.

Exodus 34:6

And as he was crossing before him, he said: "The Ruler, the Lord God, merciful and lenient, patient and full of compassion and also truthful,

Ecclesiastes 7:8

A false accusation troubles the wise man and saps the strength of his heart.

Isaiah 63:7

I will remember the compassion of the Lord, the praise of the Lord over all that the Lord has bestowed on us, and over the multitude of his good things for the house of Israel, which he has granted to them according to his leniency, and according to the multitude of his mercies.

Isaiah 63:9

Throughout all their tribulation, he was not troubled, for the Angel of his presence saved them. With his love, and by his leniency, he has redeemed them, and he has carried them and lifted them up, throughout all the days of the ages.

Lamentations 3:22

HETH. By the mercies of the Lord, we are not consumed. For his compassion has not passed away.

Daniel 9:9

But to you, the Lord our God, is mercy and atonement, for we have withdrawn from you,

Joel 2:13

And rend your hearts, and not your garments, and convert to the Lord your God. For he is gracious and merciful, patient and full of compassion, and steadfast despite ill will.

Jonah 4:2

And he prayed to the Lord, and he said, "I beg you, Lord, was this not my word, when I was still in my own land? Because of this, I knew beforehand to flee into Tarshish. For I know that you are a lenient and merciful God, patient and great in compassion, and forgiving despite ill will.

Micah 7:18

What God is like you, who takes away iniquity and passes over the sin of the remnant of your inheritance? No longer will he send forth his fury, because he is willing to be merciful.

Numbers 14:18

'The Lord is patient and full of mercy, taking away iniquity and wickedness, and forsaking no one who is harmless. He visits the sins of the fathers upon the sons, to the third and fourth generation.'

Matthew 10:22

And you will be hated by all for the sake of my name. But whoever will have persevered, even to the end, the same shall be saved.

Luke 1:50

And his mercy is from generation to generations for those who fear him.

Luke 11:10

For everyone who asks, receives. And whoever seeks, finds. And whoever knocks, it shall be opened to him.

Luke 6:36

Therefore, be merciful, just as your Father is also merciful.

Romans 2:4

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness and patience and forbearance? Do you not know that the kindness of God is calling you to repentance?

Ephesians 1:6

for the praise of the glory of his grace, with which he has gifted us in his beloved Son.

Ephesians 2:4

Yet still, God, who is rich in mercy, for the sake of his exceedingly great charity with which he loved us,

Hebrews 10:39

So then, we are not sons who are drawn away to perdition, but we are sons of faith toward the securing of the soul.

Hebrews 3:14

For we have been made participants in Christ. This is only so, if we firmly retain the beginning of his substance, even unto the end.

Hebrews 3:6

Yet truly, Christ is like a Son in his own house. We are that house, if we firmly retain the faithfulness and the glory of hope, even unto the end.

James 1:12

Blessed is the man who suffers temptation. For when he has been proven, he shall receive the crown of life which God has promised to those who love him.

James 1:2

My brothers, when you have fallen into various trials, consider everything a joy,

1 Peter 1:13

For this reason, gird the waist of your mind, be sober, and hope perfectly in the grace that is offered to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 3:14

And yet, even when you suffer something for the sake of justice, you are blessed. So then, do not be afraid with their fear, and do not be disturbed.

2 Peter 2:9

Thus, the Lord knows how to rescue the pious from trials, and how to reserve the iniquitous for torments on the day of judgment;