James 5:11

Legacy Standard Bible

Behold, we count those blessed who persevere. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and have seen the outcome of the Lord’s dealings, that the Lord is full of compassion and is merciful.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 21:13

Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Let me now fall into the hand of Yahweh, for His compassions are exceedingly abundant. But do not let me fall into the hand of man.”

2 Chronicles 30:9

For when you return to Yahweh, your brothers and your sons will find compassion before those who led them captive and will return to this land. For Yahweh your God is gracious and compassionate, and will not turn His face away from you if you return to Him.”

Nehemiah 9:17

“They refused to listen, And did not remember Your wondrous deeds which You did among them; So they became stiff-necked and gave themselves a chief to return to their slavery in Egypt. But You are a God of lavish forgiveness, Gracious and compassionate, Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness; And You did not forsake them.

Nehemiah 9:31

“Nevertheless, in Your abundant compassion You did not make a complete destruction of them or forsake them, For You are a gracious and compassionate God.

Job 1:1

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and that man was blameless, upright, fearing God, and turning away from evil.

Job 1:2

Seven sons and three daughters were born to him.

Job 2:10

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the wickedly foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept calamity?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

Job 23:10

“But He knows the way I take; When He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.

Psalm 103:13

As a father has compassion on his children, So Yahweh has compassion on those who fear Him.

Psalm 103:8

Yahweh is compassionate and gracious, Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness.

Psalm 116:5

¶Gracious is Yahweh, and righteous; And our God is compassionate.

Psalm 119:132

Turn to me and be gracious to me, According to Your judgment for those who love Your name.

Psalm 145:8

¶Yahweh is gracious and compassionate; Slow to anger and great in lovingkindness.

Psalm 37:37

Observe the blameless man, and behold the upright; For the man of peace will have a posterity.

Psalm 51:1

Be gracious to me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness; According to the abundance of Your compassion blot out my transgressions.

Psalm 78:38

But He, being compassionate, atoned for their iniquity and did not destroy them; And He abounded in turning back His anger And did not arouse all His wrath.

Psalm 86:15

But You, O Lord, are a God compassionate and gracious, Slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness and truth.

Psalm 86:5

For You, Lord, are good, and by nature forgiving, And abundant in lovingkindness to all who call upon You.

Psalm 94:12

¶Blessed is the man whom You discipline, O Yah, And whom You teach out of Your law;

Exodus 34:6

Then Yahweh passed by in front of him and called out, “Yahweh, Yahweh God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth;

Ecclesiastes 7:8

Better is the end of a matter than its beginning; Better is patience of spirit than haughtiness of spirit.

Isaiah 63:7

¶I shall bring to remembrance the lovingkindnesses of Yahweh, the praises of Yahweh, According to all the ways that Yahweh has dealt bountifully with us, And the abundant goodness toward the house of Israel, Which He has dealt bountifully to them according to His compassion And according to the abundance of His lovingkindnesses.

Isaiah 63:9

In all their distress He was distressed, And the angel of His presence saved them; In His love and in His mercy He redeemed them, And He lifted them and carried them all the ancient days.

Lamentations 3:22

The lovingkindnesses of Yahweh indeed never cease, For His compassions never fail.

Daniel 9:9

To the Lord our God belong compassion and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against Him;

Joel 2:13

And tear your heart and not your garments.” Now return to Yahweh your God, For He is gracious and compassionate, Slow to anger, abounding in lovingkindness, And relenting concerning evil.

Jonah 4:2

And he prayed to Yahweh and said, “Ah! O Yahweh, was not this my word to myself while I was still in my own land? Therefore I went ahead to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, and one who relents concerning evil.

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like You, who forgives iniquity And passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance? He does not hold fast to His anger forever Because He delights in lovingkindness.

Numbers 14:18

‘Yahweh is slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generations.’

Matthew 10:22

And you will be hated by all because of My name, but it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved.

Luke 1:50

“And His mercy is upon generation after generation Toward those who fear Him.

Luke 11:10

For everyone who asks, receives; and he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, it will be opened.

Luke 6:36

Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

Romans 2:4

Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?

Ephesians 1:6

to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He graciously bestowed on us in the Beloved.

Ephesians 2:4

But God, being rich in mercy because of His great love with which He loved us,

Hebrews 10:39

But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the preserving of the soul.

Hebrews 3:14

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our assurance firm until the end,

Hebrews 3:6

but Christ was faithful as a Son over His house—whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope.

James 1:12

Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.

James 1:2

Consider it all joy, my brothers, when you encounter various trials,

1 Peter 1:13

Therefore, having girded your minds for action, being sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 3:14

But even if you should suffer for the sake of righteousness, you are blessed. And do not fear their fear, and do not be troubled,

2 Peter 2:9

then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trial, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,