James 5:11

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Beholde, we count the happy which endure. Ye haue hearde of the patience of Iob, and haue knowen what ende the Lorde made: For the Lorde is very pitifull and mercifull.

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  • Exod 34:6 : 6 And the Lorde passed by before hym, and cryed, Lorde, Lorde, God, strong, mercyfull and gracious, long suffering, and aboundaunt in goodnes & trueth,
  • Job 1:21-22 : 21 And sayde: Naked came I out of my mothers wombe, & naked shall I turne thyther againe: The Lorde gaue & the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lorde. 22 In all these thinges dyd Iob not offende, nor charged God foolishly.
  • Job 2:10 : 10 But he sayde vnto her, Thou speakest like a foolish woman: shal we receaue good at the hande of God, and not receaue euyll? In all these thinges did not Iob sinne with his lippes.
  • Job 42:10-17 : 10 And the Lorde tourned the captiuitie of Iob when he prayed for his friendes: Yea the Lorde gaue Iob twyse as much as he had afore. 11 And then came there vnto him all his brethren, all his sisters, and all they that had ben of his acquaintaunce afore, and did eate bread with him in his house, and had compassion on him, and comforted him ouer all trouble that the Lorde had brought vpon him: euery man also gaue him a certaine summe of money, and a iewell of golde. 12 So the Lorde blessed the last dayes of Iob more then the first: for he had fourteene thousand sheepe, sixe thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses: 13 He had seuen sonnes also, and three daughters. 14 The first daughter called he Iemima, the second Kezia, and the third Kerenhapuch. 15 In al the land were no women found so faire as the daughters of Iob: and their father gaue them inheritaunce among their brethren. 16 After this liued Iob an hundred and fourtie yeres: so that he sawe his children, and his childrens children into the fourth generation. 17 And so Iob dyed, being olde, and of a perfect age.
  • Ps 103:8 : 8 God is full of compassion and pitie: loth to be angry, and exceedyng great in mercie.
  • Matt 5:10-11 : 10 Blessed (are) they which suffer persecution for righteousnes sake: for theirs is the kyngdome of heauen. 11 Blessed are ye, whe (men) reuyle you, and persecute (you) and, lying, shall say all maner of euyll saying agaynst you, for my sake.
  • Num 14:18 : 18 The Lorde is long yer he be angrie, and of great mercy, and suffreth iniquitie and sinne, and leaueth no man innocent, and visiteth the vnrighteousnesse of the fathers vpon the chyldren, in the thirde and fourth generations.
  • Dan 9:18-19 : 18 O my God, encline thyne eare & hearken, open thyne eyes, beholde howe we be desolated, yea and the citie also which is called after thy name: for we do not present our prayers before thee in our owne righteousnes, but in thy great mercies. 19 O Lorde heare, O forgeue Lorde, O Lorde consider and do it, defer not, for thyne owne sake O my God: because thy name is called vpon thy citie, & vpon thy people.
  • Joel 2:13 : 13 And rent your heartes and not your garmentes, & turne you vnto the Lorde your God, for he is gratious & mercifull, slowe to anger, and of great goodnesse, and he wyll repent him of the euyll.
  • Jonah 4:2 : 2 And he prayed vnto the Lorde, and saide: I pray thee O Lorde, was not this my saying when I was yet in my countrey? therfore I hasted to flee into Tharsis: For I knewe that thou art a gratious God, and mercifull, long suffering, and of great kindnesse, and repentest thee of euill.
  • Mic 7:18 : 18 Who is such a God as thou, that pardonest wickednesse, and forgeuest the offences of the remnaunt of thyne heritage? He kepeth not his wrath for euer: for his delite is to haue compassion.
  • 1 Chr 21:13 : 13 And Dauid sayde vnto Gad, I am in an exceeding strayte: Let me fall nowe into the hande of the Lorde (for passing great are his mercies) but let me not fal into the hand of men.
  • 2 Chr 30:9 : 9 For if ye turne againe vnto the Lorde, then shall your brethren and your children finde compassion in the presence of them that toke them captiue, and they shall come againe vnto this lande: For the Lorde your God is gratious and mercifull, and wyll not turne away his face from you, if ye conuert vnto him.
  • Neh 9:17 : 17 And woulde not obey, neither were mindeful of the wonders that thou diddest for the: but hardened their neckes, and had in their heades to returne to their bondage by their rebellion: But thou O God of mercies, gracious, and full of compassion, of long suffering, and of great mercie, yet forsookest them not.
  • Neh 9:31 : 31 And for thy great mercies sake, thou hast not vtterly consumed them, neither forsaken them: for thou art a gratious and mercifull God.
  • Job 1:2 : 2 And he had seuen sonnes and three daughters.
  • Job 13:15-16 : 15 Lo, though he slay me, yet wyl I trust in him: but I wyll reproue myne owne wayes in his sight. 16 He shalbe my saluation: for there may no hypocrite come before him.
  • Job 23:10 : 10 But as for my way, he knoweth it, and tryeth me, that as the gold I may come foorth.
  • Ps 25:6-7 : 6 Call to remembraunce O God thy tender mercies & thy louyng kindnesse: for they haue ben for euer. 7 Oh remember not thou the sinnes and offences of my youth: but accordyng to thy mercie euen of thy goodnesse O God remember me.
  • Ps 37:37 : 37 Marke hym that is perfect, and beholde him that is iust: for the ende of suche a man is peace.
  • Ps 51:1 : 1 To the chiefe musition, a psalme of Dauid when the prophete Nathan came vnto hym after he was gone in to Bethsabe. Haue mercie on me O Lorde accordyng to thy louyng kindnesse: accordyng vnto the multitudes of thy mercies wype out my wickednesse.
  • Ps 78:38 : 38 Yea many a tyme he dyd much for to represse his anger: and neuer woulde suffer his whole rage to breake out.
  • Ps 86:5 : 5 For thou Lorde art good and gracious: and of great mercy vnto all them that call vpon thee.
  • Ps 86:15 : 15 But thou O Lorde art a God full of compassion and mercy: long yet thou be angry, plenteous in goodnes and trueth.
  • Ps 94:12 : 12 Blessed is the man O Lorde, whom thou wylt chasten: and whom thou wylt instruct in thy lawe.
  • Matt 10:22 : 22 And ye shalbe hated of all men, for my names sake: but he that endureth to the ende, shalbe saued.
  • Luke 1:50 : 50 And his mercy is on them that feare him, from generation to generation.
  • Luke 6:36 : 36 Be ye therfore mercifull, as your father also is mercifull.
  • Rom 2:4 : 4 Eyther despisest thou the rychesse of his goodnes, & pacience, and long sufferaunce, not knowyng that the kyndnesse of god leadeth thee to repentauce?
  • Eph 1:6 : 6 To the prayse of the glorie of his grace, wherein he hath made vs accepted in the beloued.
  • Eph 2:4 : 4 But God which is ryche in mercie, for his great loue wherwith he loued vs,
  • Heb 3:6 : 6 But Christe as a sonne hath rule ouer his owne house, whose house are we, yf we holde fast the confidence and the reioycyng of that hope vnto the ende.
  • Heb 3:14 : 14 For we are made partakers of Christe, yf we kepe sure vnto the ende the begynnyng of the substaunce,
  • Heb 10:39 : 39 We are not of them that withdrawe our selues vnto perdition: but we parteyne vnto fayth, to the wynning of the soule.
  • Jas 1:12 : 12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: For when he is tryed, he shall receaue the crowne of lyfe, which the Lorde hath promised to them that loue hym.
  • 1 Pet 1:6-7 : 6 In the which ye reioyce, though nowe for a season (yf nede require) ye are in heauinesse through manifolde temptations: 7 That the triall of your fayth, beyng much more precious then golde that perisheth, though it be tried with fyre, myght be founde vnto laude, glorie, and honour, at the appearyng of Iesus Christe,
  • 1 Pet 1:13 : 13 Wherfore girde vp the loynes of your mynde, be sober, and trust perfectly on the grace that is brought vnto you, by the reuelation of Iesus Christe:
  • 2 Pet 2:9 : 9 The Lorde knoweth howe to delyuer the godly out of temptation, and to reserue the vniust vnto the day of iudgement for to be punished:
  • Ps 103:13 : 13 Yea lyke as a father pitieth his owne children: euen so is God mercifull vnto them that feare hym.
  • Ps 116:5 : 5 Gratious is God and ryghteous: our Lorde is mercifull.
  • Ps 119:132 : 132 Loke thou vpon me and be mercifull vnto me: as thou vsest to do vnto those that loue thy name.
  • Ps 136:1-9 : 1 Confesse you it vnto the Lord, for he is gratious: and his mercy endureth for euer. 2 Confesse you it vnto the God of Gods: for his mercy endureth for euer. 3 Confesse you it vnto the Lorde of Lordes: for his mercy endureth for euer. 4 Who onlye doth great wonders: for his mercy endureth for euer. 5 Who by his excellent wysdome made the heauens: for his mercy endureth for euer. 6 Who layde out the earth aboue the waters: for his mercy endureth for euer. 7 Who hath made great lightes: for his mercy endureth for euer. 8 The sunne to rule in the day: for his mercy endureth for euer. 9 The moone and the starres to gouerne in the night: for his mercy endureth for euer. 10 Who smote Egypt with their first borne: for his mercy endureth for euer. 11 And brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endureth for euer. 12 With a mightie hande and a stretched out arme: for his mercy endureth for euer. 13 Who deuided the red sea in partes: for his mercy endureth for euer. 14 And made Israel to passe through the myddest of it: for his mercy endureth for euer. 15 He ouerthrewe Pharao and his hoast in the red sea: for his mercy endureth for euer. 16 Who led his people through the wyldernesse: for his mercy endureth for euer. 17 Who smote great kinges: for his mercye endureth for euer. 18 And he slue mightie kynges: for his mercy endureth for euer. 19 Sihon kyng of the Amorites: for his mercy endureth for euer. 20 And Og the kyng of Bashan: for his mercy endureth for euer. 21 And he gaue away their lande for an heritage: for his mercy endureth for euer. 22 For an heritage vnto Israel his seruaunt: for his mercy endureth for euer. 23 Who remembred vs when we were brought lowe: for his mercy endureth for euer. 24 And he deliuered vs from our aduersaries: for his mercy endureth for euer. 25 Who geueth foode vnto all creatures: for his mercy endureth for euer. 26 Confesse you it vnto the Lord of heauen: for his mercy endureth for euer.
  • Ps 145:8 : 8 God is gratious and mercifull: loth to be angry, and great in louing kindnesse.
  • Eccl 7:8 : 8 Better is it to consider the ende of a thing then the beginning: The pacient of spirite, is better then the hye minded.
  • Isa 55:6-7 : 6 Seke the Lorde whyle he may be founde, and call vpon hym whyle he is nye. 7 Let the vngodly man forsake his owne wayes, and the vnrighteous his owne imaginations, and turne agayne vnto the Lorde, so shall he be mercifull vnto hym: and to our God, for he is very redy to forgeue.
  • Isa 63:7 : 7 I wyll declare the goodnesse of the Lorde, yea and the prayse of the Lorde for all that he hath geuen vs, for the great good that he hath done for Israel, whiche he hath geuen them of his owne fauour, and according to the multitude of his louing kindnesses.
  • Isa 63:9 : 9 In their troubles, he was also troubled with them, and the angell that went foorth from his presence deliuered them: of very loue and kindnesse that he had vnto them, he redeemed them, he hath borne them and caried them vp euer since the worlde began.
  • Lam 3:22 : 22 namely it is of the Lordes mercies that we are not vtterly consumed, for truely his pitifull compassion hath not ceassed.
  • Dan 9:9 : 9 Unto the Lorde our God pertayneth compassion and forgeuenesse, though we haue rebelled against him.

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