James 5:11

Lighthouse Bible 2006

Behold, we consider them happy who endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the purpose of the Lord; that the Lord is full of compassion, and of tender mercy.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 21:13

And David said to Gad, I am in a great difficulty: let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for very great are his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man.

2 Chronicles 30:9

For if you turn again to the LORD, your kindred and your children shall find compassion before those who lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return unto him.

Nehemiah 9:17

And refused to obey, neither were mindful of your wonders that you did among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their slavery: but you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and did not forsake them.

Nehemiah 9:31

Nevertheless for your great mercies’ sake you did not completely consume them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful God.

Job 1:1

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and turned away from evil.

Job 1:2

And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

Job 2:10

But he said to her, You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

Job 23:10

But he knows the way that I take: when he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

Psalm 103:13

As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him.

Psalm 103:8

The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plentiful in mercy.

Psalm 116:5

Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.

Psalm 119:132

Look thou upon me, and be merciful to me, as you do for those that love your name.

Psalm 145:8

The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.

Psalm 37:37

Take note of the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

Psalm 51:1

​Have mercy on me, O God, according to your loving kindness: according to the multitude of your tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

Psalm 78:38

But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and did not destroy them: yea, many times he turned his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.

Psalm 86:15

But you, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.

Psalm 86:5

For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy to all those who call upon you.

Psalm 94:12

Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O LORD, and teach him out of your law;

Exodus 34:6

And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,

Ecclesiastes 7:8

Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Isaiah 63:7

I will mention the loving kindnesses of the LORD, and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD has bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel which he has bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

Isaiah 63:9

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

Lamentations 3:22

It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions never fail.

Daniel 9:9

To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness, though we have rebelled against him;

Joel 2:13

And break your heart, and not your garments, and turn to the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repents of the evil.

Jonah 4:2

And he prayed to the LORD, and said, I pray you, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before to Tarshish: for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and are sorry for the evil.

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he does not retain his anger for ever, because he delights in mercy.

Numbers 14:18

The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.

Matthew 10:22

And you shall be hated by all men for my name’s sake: but he who endures to the end shall be saved.

Luke 1:50

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

Luke 11:10

For every one who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks it shall be opened.

Luke 6:36

Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.

Romans 2:4

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

Ephesians 1:6

To the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he has made us accepted in the beloved.

Ephesians 2:4

But God, who is rich in mercy, in his great love with which he loved us,

Hebrews 10:39

But we are not of those who draw back to destruction; but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.

Hebrews 3:14

For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast until the end;

Hebrews 3:6

But Christ was faithful as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.

James 1:12

Blessed is the man who endures temptation: for when he has been tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to those who love him.

James 1:2

My brethren, count it all joy when you meet with various temptations;

1 Peter 1:13

Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

1 Peter 3:14

But if you suffer for righteousness’ sake, happy are you: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;

2 Peter 2:9

The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust for the day of judgment to be punished: