Psalm 116:5

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Summary

Psalm 116:5

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

Gracious

And righteous

General references

Psalm 107:13

Matthew 5:4

Bible References

Gracious

For thou, Lord, art good and ready to forgive and plenteous in mercy unto all those that call upon thee.

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

Zain A light has shined in the darkness upon the upright: Cheth Gracious and merciful and righteous.

Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy and for thy truth.

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

And as the LORD passed by before him, he proclaimed, I AM, I AM strong, merciful, and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in mercy and truth,

and refused to hear; neither did they remember thy wonders that thou hadst done among them, but hardened their necks and in their rebellion thought to appoint a leader to return to their bondage; but thou art a God of pardons, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great mercy, for thou didst not leave them.

Of the Lord our God is the ability to have mercy and to forgive, even though we have rebelled against him

Moreover the law entered that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound,

to the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he has made us accepted in the beloved;

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

And the grace of our Lord was exceedingly abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,

And righteous

TZADDI. Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments.

Daleth One generation shall praise thy works to another and shall declare thy mighty acts.

O LORD God of Israel, thou art righteous; for we have an escape, as it is this day, behold us here, before thee in our guiltiness; for we cannot stand before thee because of this.

and didst find his heart faithful before thee and didst make a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it, to his seed and hast performed thy word; for thou art righteous.

Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together; who caused this to be heard from the beginning and has declared it from that time, except me, the LORD? and there is no God beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is no one besides me.

O Lord, the righteousness belongs unto thee, but unto us the confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near and that are far off through all the lands where thou hast driven them because of their rebellion with which they have rebelled against thee.

whom God purposed for reconciliation through faith in his blood for the manifestation of his righteousness, for the remission of sins that are past, by the patience of God,

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

General references

Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.

Blessed are those that mourn, for they shall be comforted.