James 5:11

Exhortation To Patience

¹⁰ Take, my brethren, the prophets: for an example of suffering adversity, and of long patience, which spake in the name of the Lord. ¹¹ Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have known what end the Lord made. For the Lord is very pitiful, and merciful. ¹² But above all things, my brethren, swear not: neither by heaven, neither by earth, neither by any other oath. Let your yea be "yea," and your nay, "nay," lest ye fall into hypocrisy.

From the Lord

Tender Mercy

Job

Exodus 34:6

And when the LORD walked before him, he cried, "LORD, LORD God full of compassion and mercy, which art not lightly angry but abundant in mercy and truth,

Job 1:21-22

and said, "Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I turn thither again. The LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; now blessed be the name of the LORD."

Numbers 14:18

'The LORD is long yer he be angry, and full of mercy, and suffereth sin and trespass, and leaveth no man innocent, and visiteth the unrighteousness of the fathers upon the children, even upon the third and fourth generation.'

Job 2:10

But Job said unto her, "Thou speakest like a foolish woman. Seeing we have received prosperity at the hand of God, wherefore should we not be content with adversity also?" In all these things, did not Job sin with his lips.

Psalm 103:8

The LORD is full of compassion and mercy; longsuffering, and of great goodness.

1 Chronicles 21:13

And David said to Gad, "I am in an exceeding strait. But let me fall in to the hands of the LORD, for passing great is his mercy, and let me not fall unto the hands of men."

2 Chronicles 30:9

For if ye turn unto the LORD, then your brethren and your children shall find compassion in the presence of them that hold them captive, that they may come again unto this land: for the LORD your God is full of mercy and compassion, and will not turn his face from you, if ye turn again to him."

Nehemiah 9:17

and refused to hear, and were not mindful of the wonders that thou didst for them: but became obstinate and heady insomuch that they turned back to their bondage in their disobedience. But thou, my God, forgavest, and wast gracious, merciful, patient, and of great goodness, and forsookest them not.

Nehemiah 9:31

But for thy great mercies' sake thou hast not utterly consumed them, neither forsaken them: for thou art a gracious and merciful God.

Job 1:2

This man had seven sons, and three daughters.

Job 13:15-16

Lo, though he slay me, yet will I put my trust in him. But if I shew and reprove mine own ways in his sight,

Job 23:10

But as for my way, he knoweth it: and tryeth me as the gold in the fire.

Job 42:10-17

and the LORD turned him unto Job, when he prayed for his friends: Yea, the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had afore.

Psalm 25:6-7

Call to remembrance, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy loving-kindnesses, which have been ever of old.

Psalm 37:37

Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right; for that shall bring a man peace at the last.

Psalm 51:1

{To the chanter, a Psalm of David, when the Prophet Nathan came unto him, after he was gone in to Bathsheba} Have mercy upon me, O God, after thy great goodness; according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences.

Psalm 78:38

But he was so merciful, that he forgave their misdeeds, and destroyed them not. Yea, many a time turned he his wrath away, and would not suffer his whole displeasure to arise.

Psalm 86:5

For thou, LORD, art good and gracious, and of great mercy unto all them that call upon thee.

Psalm 86:15

But thou, O LORD God, art full of compassion and mercy, longsuffering, plenteous in goodness and truth.

Psalm 94:12

Blessed is the man, whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him in thy law,

Psalm 103:13

Yea, like as a father pitieth his own children, even so is the LORD merciful unto them that fear him.

Psalm 116:5

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

Psalm 119:132

O look thou upon me, and be merciful, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.

Psalm 136:1-26

Give thanks unto the LORD, for he is gracious! And his mercy endureth forever.

Psalm 145:8

The LORD is gracious and merciful, long-suffering and of great goodness.

Ecclesiastes 7:8

The end of a thing is better than the beginning. The patient of spirit is better than the high minded.

Isaiah 55:6-7

Seek the LORD, while he may be found, and call upon him while he is nigh.

Isaiah 63:7

I will declare the goodness of the LORD, yea and the praise of the LORD, for all that he hath given us; for the great good that he hath done for Israel, which he hath given them of his own favour, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

Isaiah 63:9

In their troubles he forsook them not, but the angel that went forth from his presence delivered them. Of very love and kindness that he had unto them, he redeemed them: He hath born them, and carried them up ever since the world began.

Lamentations 3:22

{Khet} Namely, that the mercies of the LORD are not clean gone, and that his loving-kindness ceaseth not.

Daniel 9:9

But unto thee O LORD our God, pertaineth mercy and forgiveness. As for us, we are gone back from him,

Daniel 9:18-19

O my God, incline thine ear, and hearken; at the least for thine own sake, open thine eyes. Behold how we be desolated: yea, and the city also, which is called after thy name. For we do not cast our prayers before thee in our own righteousnesses, no, but only in thy great mercies.

Joel 2:13

And tear your hearts and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God. For he is full of mercy and compassion, long ere he be angry, and great in mercy and repentance when he is at the point to punish.

Jonah 4:2

And he prayed unto the LORD and said, "O LORD, was not this my saying when I was yet in my country? And therefore I hasted rather to flee to Tarshish: for I knew well enough that thou wast a merciful god, full of compassion long before thou be angry, and of great mercy and repentest when thou art come to take punishment.

Micah 7:18

Where is there such a God as thou? That pardonest wickedness, and forgivest the offenses of the remnant of thine heritage? He keepeth not his wrath for ever. And why? His delight is to have compassion.

Matthew 5:10-11

Blessed are they which suffer persecution for righteousness sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 10:22

and ye shall be hated of all men, for my name: but he that shall endureth unto the end, shall be saved.

Luke 1:50

And his mercy is always on them that fear him, throughout all generations.

Luke 6:36

Be ye therefore merciful, as your father is merciful.

Romans 2:4

Either despisest thou the riches of his goodness and patience, and long sufferance? And rememberest not how that the kindness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

Ephesians 1:6

to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherewith he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

Ephesians 2:4

But God, which is rich in mercy through his great love wherewith he loved us,

Hebrews 3:6

But Christ, as a son, hath rule over the house, whose house we are, so that we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of that hope, unto the end.

Hebrews 3:14

We are partakers of Christ, if we keep sure unto the end the beginning of the first substance,

Hebrews 10:39

We are not which withdraw ourselves unto damnation, but pertain to faith, to the winning of the soul.

James 1:12

Happy is the man that endureth in temptation, for when he is tried he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

1 Peter 1:6-7

in the which time ye shall rejoice, though now for a season - if need require - ye are in heaviness, through manifold temptations,

1 Peter 1:13

Wherefore, gird up the loins of your minds, be sober, and trust perfectly on the grace that is brought unto you by the declaring of Jesus Christ;

2 Peter 2:9

The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and how to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment for to be punished: