Psalm 103:8

God's Word

The Lord is compassionate, merciful, patient, and always ready to forgive.

Cross References

Psalm 86:15

But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and merciful God. You are patient, always faithful and ready to forgive.

Joel 2:13

Tear your hearts, not your clothes. Return to the Lord your God. He is merciful and compassionate, patient, and always ready to forgive and to change his plans about disaster.

Nahum 1:3

The Lord is patient and has great strength. The Lord will never let the guilty go unpunished. Raging winds and storms mark his path, and clouds are the dust from his feet.

Psalm 145:8

The Lord is merciful, compassionate, patient, and always ready to forgive.

Psalm 86:5

You, O Lord, are good and forgiving, full of mercy toward everyone who calls out to you.

James 5:11

We consider those who endure to be blessed. You have heard about Job’s endurance. You saw that the Lord ended Job’s suffering because the Lord is compassionate and merciful.

Jonah 4:2

So he prayed to the Lord, “Lord, isn’t this what I said would happen when I was still in my own country? That’s why I tried to run to Tarshish in the first place. I knew that you are a merciful and compassionate God, patient, and always ready to forgive and to reconsider your threats of destruction.

Isaiah 55:7

Let wicked people abandon their ways. Let evil people abandon their thoughts. Let them return to the Lord, and he will show compassion to them. Let them return to our God, because he will freely forgive them.

Numbers 14:18

‘The Lord … patient, forever loving…. He forgives wrongdoing and disobedience…. He never lets the guilty go unpunished, punishing children … for their parents’ sins to the third and fourth generation….’

Psalm 130:7

O Israel, put your hope in the Lord, because with the Lord there is mercy and with him there is unlimited forgiveness.

Nehemiah 9:17

They refused to listen. They forgot the miracles you performed for them. They became stubborn and appointed a leader to take them back to slavery ⌞in Egypt⌟. But you are a forgiving God, one who is compassionate, merciful, patient, and always ready to forgive. You never abandoned them,

Deuteronomy 5:10

But I show mercy to thousands of generations of those who love me and obey my commandments.

Jeremiah 32:18

You show mercy to thousands of generations. However, you punish children for the wickedness of their parents. You, God, are great and mighty. Your name is the Lord of Armies.

Psalm 31:20

You hide them in the secret place of your presence from those who scheme against them. You keep them in a shelter, safe from quarrelsome tongues.