James 5:11

Geneva Bible (1560)

Beholde, we count them blessed which endure. Ye haue heard of the patience of Iob, and haue knowen what ende the Lord made. For the Lord is very pitifull and mercifull.

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  • Exod 34:6 : 6 So the Lord passed before his face, and cried, The Lord, the Lord, strong, mercifull, & gracious, slowe to anger, and abundant in goodnesse and trueth,
  • Job 1:21-22 : 21 And sayd, Naked came I out of my mothers wombe, and naked shall I returne thither: the Lord hath giuen, and the Lord hath taken it: blessed be the Name of the Lord. 22 In all this did not Iob sinne, nor charge God foolishly.
  • Job 2:10 : 10 But he said vnto her, Thou speakest like a foolish woman: what? shall we receiue good at the hande of God, and not receiue euill? In all this did not Iob sinne with his lippes.
  • Job 42:10-17 : 10 Then the Lord turned the captiuitie of Iob, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gaue Iob twise so much as he had before. 11 Then came vnto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had bene of his acquaintance before, and did eate bread with him in his house, & had compassion of him, & comforted him for al the euil, that the Lord had brought vpon him, and euery man gaue him a piece of money, and euery one an earing of golde. 12 So the Lorde blessed the last dayes of Iob more then the first: for he had foureteene thousand sheepe, and sixe thousand camels, & a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand shee asses. 13 He had also seue sonnes, & three daughters. 14 And he called the name of one Iemimah, and the name of the seconde Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-happuch. 15 In all the lande were no women found so faire as the daughters of Iob, & their father gaue them inheritaunce among their brethren. 16 And after this liued Iob an hundreth and fourtie yeres, and sawe his sonnes, and his sonnes sonnes, euen foure generations. 17 So Iob dyed, being old, and full of dayes.
  • Ps 103:8 : 8 The Lord is full of compassion and mercie, slowe to anger and of great kindnesse.
  • Matt 5:10-11 : 10 Blessed are they which suffer persecution for righteousnes sake: for theirs is the kingdome of heauen. 11 Blessed shall ye be when men reuile you, and persecute you, & say all maner of euill against you for my sake, falsely.
  • Num 14:18 : 18 The Lord is slowe to anger, and of great mercie, and forgiuing iniquitie, and sinne, but not making the wicked innocent, and visiting the wickednes of the fathers vpon the children, in the thirde and fourth generation:
  • Dan 9:18-19 : 18 O my God, encline thine eare and heare: open thine eyes, and beholde our desolations, and the citie whereupon thy Name is called: for we doe not present our supplications before thee for our owne righteousnes, but for thy great tender mercies. 19 O Lorde, heare, O Lorde forgiue, O Lorde consider, and doe it: deferre not, for thine owne sake, O my God: for thy Name is called vpon thy citie, and vpon thy people.
  • Joel 2:13 : 13 And rent your heart, & not your clothes: and turne vnto the Lord your God, for he is gratious, and mercifull, slowe to anger, and of great kindnes, and repenteth him of the euill.
  • Jonah 4:2 : 2 And he prayed vnto the Lord, and saide, I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my countrey? therefore I preuented it to flee vnto Tarshish: for I knewe that thou art a gratious God, & merciful, slow to anger, & of great kindnes, and repentest thee of the euill.
  • Mic 7:18 : 18 Who is a God like vnto thee, that taketh away iniquitie, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage! He reteineth not his wrath for euer, because mercie pleaseth him.
  • 1 Chr 21:13 : 13 And Dauid said vnto Gad, I am in a wonderfull strait. Let me nowe fall into the hande of the Lorde: for his mercies are exceeding great, and let me not fall into the hande of man.
  • 2 Chr 30:9 : 9 For if ye returne vnto the Lord, your brethren and your children shall finde mercy before them that led them captiues, and they shall returne vnto this lande: for the Lord your God is gracious and mercifull, and will not turne away his face from you, if ye conuert vnto him.
  • Neh 9:17 : 17 But refused to obey, & would not remember thy marueilous works that thou haddest done for them, but hardened their neckes, and had in their heads to returne to their bondage by their rebellion: but thou, O God of mercies, gratious and full of compassion, of long suffring and of great mercie, yet forsookest them not.
  • Neh 9:31 : 31 Yet for thy great mercies thou hast not consumed them, neither forsaken them: for thou art a gracious and mercifull God.
  • Job 1:2 : 2 And he had seue sonnes, & three daughters.
  • Job 13:15-16 : 15 Loe, though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, and I will reprooue my wayes in his sight. 16 He shalbe my saluation also: for the hypocrite shall not come before him.
  • Job 23:10 : 10 But he knoweth my way, & trieth mee, and I shal come forth like the gold.
  • Ps 25:6-7 : 6 Remember, O Lorde, thy tender mercies, and thy louing kindnesse: for they haue beene for euer. 7 Remember not the sinnes of my youth, nor my rebellions, but according to thy kindenesse remember thou me, euen for thy goodnesse sake, O Lord.
  • Ps 37:37 : 37 Marke the vpright man, and beholde the iust: for the end of that man is peace.
  • Ps 51:1 : 1 To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid, when the Prophet Nathan came vnto him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba. Haue mercie vpon me, O God, according to thy louing kindnes: according to the multitude of thy compassions put away mine iniquities.
  • Ps 78:38 : 38 Yet he being merciful forgaue their iniquitie, & destroied them not, but oft times called backe his anger, & did not stirre vp all his wrath.
  • Ps 86:5 : 5 For thou, Lord, art good and mercifull, and of great kindenes vnto all them, that call vpon thee.
  • Ps 86:15 : 15 But thou, O Lorde, art a pitifull God and mercifull, slowe to anger and great in kindenes and trueth.
  • Ps 94:12 : 12 Blessed is the man, whom thou chastisest, O Lord, and teachest him in thy Lawe,
  • Matt 10:22 : 22 And yee shall be hated of all men for my Name: but he that endureth to the end, he shall be saued.
  • Luke 1:50 : 50 And his mercie is from generation to generation on them that feare him.
  • Luke 6:36 : 36 Be ye therefore mercifull, as your Father also is mercifull.
  • Rom 2:4 : 4 Or despisest thou the riches of his bountifulnesse, and patience, and long sufferance, not knowing that the bountifulnesse of God leadeth thee to repentance?
  • Eph 1:6 : 6 To the prayse of the glory of his grace, wherewith he hath made vs freely accepted in his beloued,
  • Eph 2:4 : 4 But God which is rich in mercie, through his great loue wherewith he loued vs,
  • Heb 3:6 : 6 But Christ is as the Sonne, ouer his owne house, whose house we are, if we holde fast that confidence and that reioycing of that hope vnto the ende.
  • Heb 3:14 : 14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we keepe sure vnto the ende that beginning, wherewith we are vpholden,
  • Heb 10:39 : 39 But we are not they which withdrawe our selues vnto perdition, but follow faith vnto the conseruation of the soule.
  • Jas 1:12 : 12 Blessed is ye man, that endureth tentation: for when he is tried, hee shall receiue the crowne of life, which the Lorde hath promised to them that loue him.
  • 1 Pet 1:6-7 : 6 Wherein yee reioyce, though nowe for a season (if neede require) yee are in heauinesse, through manifolde tentations, 7 That the triall of your faith, being much more precious then golde that perisheth (though it be tried with fire) might bee founde vnto your praise, and honour and glorie at the appearing of Iesus Christ:
  • 1 Pet 1:13 : 13 Wherefore, girde vp the Ioynes of your minde: bee sober, and trust perfectly on that grace that is brought vnto you, in the reuelation of Iesus Christ,
  • 2 Pet 2:9 : 9 The Lorde knoweth to deliuer the godly out of tentation, and to reserue the vniust vnto the day of iudgement vnder punishment.
  • Ps 103:13 : 13 As a father hath compassion on his children, so hath the Lord compassion on them that feare him.
  • Ps 116:5 : 5 The Lorde is mercifull and righteous, and our God is full of compassion.
  • Ps 119:132 : 132 Looke vpon mee and bee mercifull vnto me, as thou vsest to doe vnto those that loue thy Name.
  • Ps 136:1-9 : 1 Praise ye the Lord, because he is good: for his mercie endureth for euer. 2 Praise ye the God of gods: for his mercie endureth for euer. 3 Praise ye the Lord of lordes: for his mercie endureth for euer: 4 Which onely doeth great wonders: for his mercie endureth for euer: 5 Which by his wisedome made the heauens: for his mercie endureth for euer: 6 Which hath stretched out the earth vpon the waters: for his mercie endureth for euer: 7 Which made great lightes: for his mercie endureth for euer: 8 As the sunne to rule the day: for his mercie endureth for euer: 9 The moone and the starres to gouerne the night: for his mercie endureth for euer: 10 Which smote Egypt with their first borne, (for his mercie endureth for euer) 11 And brought out Israel from among them (for his mercie endureth for euer) 12 With a mightie hande and stretched out arme: for his mercie endureth for euer: 13 Which deuided the red Sea in two partes: for his mercie endureth for euer: 14 And made Israel to passe through the mids of it: for his mercie endureth for euer: 15 And ouerthrewe Pharaoh and his hoste in the red Sea: for his mercie endureth for euer: 16 Which led his people through the wildernes: for his mercie endureth for euer: 17 Which smote great Kings: for his mercie endureth for euer: 18 And slewe mightie Kings: for his mercie endureth for euer: 19 As Sihon King of the Amorites: for his mercie endureth for euer: 20 And Og the King of Bashan: for his mercie endureth for euer: 21 And gaue their land for an heritage: for his mercie endureth for euer: 22 Euen an heritage vnto Israel his seruant: for his mercie endureth for euer: 23 Which remembred vs in our base estate: for his mercie endureth for euer: 24 And hath rescued vs from our oppressours: for his mercie endureth for euer: 25 Which giueth foode to all flesh: for his mercie endureth for euer. 26 Praise ye the God of heauen: for his mercie endureth for euer.
  • Ps 145:8 : 8 The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great mercie.
  • Eccl 7:8 : 8 (7:10) The ende of a thing is better then the beginning thereof, and the pacient in spirit is better then the proude in spirit.
  • Isa 55:6-7 : 6 Seeke ye the Lord while he may be found: call ye vpon him while he is neere. 7 Let the wicked forsake his wayes, and the vnrighteous his owne imaginations, and returne vnto the Lord, and he wil haue mercy vpon him: and to our God, for hee is very ready to forgiue.
  • Isa 63:7 : 7 I wil remember the mercies of the Lord and the prayses of the Lorde according vnto all that the Lord hath giuen vs, and for the great goodnesse toward the house of Israel, which hee hath giuen them according to his tender loue, and according to his great mercies.
  • Isa 63:9 : 9 In all their troubles he was troubled, and the Angel of his presence saued them: in his loue and in his mercie he redeemed them, and he bare them and caried them alwayes continually.
  • Lam 3:22 : 22 It is the Lordes mercies that wee are not consumed, because his compassions faile not.
  • Dan 9:9 : 9 Yet compassion and forgiuenesse is in the Lorde our God, albeit we haue rebelled against him.

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