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Psalm 103:17

But the LORD’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children,

15As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
16For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.
17But the LORD’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children,
18to those who keep his covenant, to those who remember to obey his precepts.
19The LORD has established his throne in the heavens. His kingdom rules over all.
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The turn from fading grass to everlasting loving kindness brings human limits into view without making those limits the measure of God’s love.

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Where else Scripture says this

12 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Isaiah 45:17Israel will be saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.Both passages speak of what endures with the LORD: everlasting loving kindness in the psalm and everlasting salvation in Isaiah.
Jeremiah 31:3The LORD appeared of old to me, saying, “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness.Both passages join everlasting love with loving kindness, describing the LORD’s love as extending beyond the limits of human life.
Romans 8:35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?Both passages speak of divine love, with the psalm naming its duration and Romans questioning what could separate believers from Christ’s love.
Hebrews 13:8Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.Both passages speak across time: the LORD’s loving kindness is everlasting, and Jesus Christ remains the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Psalm 23:6Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the LORD’s house forever.Both psalms speak of the LORD’s loving kindness, with Psalm 103 declaring its everlasting duration and Psalm 23 trusting its lifelong presence.
Psalm 138:8The LORD will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, LORD, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.Both psalms declare that the LORD’s loving kindness endures forever, making his enduring love central to their words about him.
Psalm 103:13Like a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him.Both verses name those who fear the LORD as recipients of his care, expressed through fatherlike compassion and everlasting loving kindness.
Psalm 100:5For the LORD is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.Both passages connect the LORD’s everlasting loving kindness with his care across generations, naming righteousness in Psalm 103 and faithfulness in Psalm 100.
Malachi 3:6“For I, the LORD, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.Both passages describe the LORD’s constancy: his loving kindness is everlasting in the psalm, and his unchanging character preserves Jacob’s descendants in Malachi.
Ezra 3:11They sang to one another in praising and giving thanks to the LORD, “For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever toward Israel.” All the people …Both passages declare the LORD’s enduring loving kindness, which Ezra records as the reason for praise when the temple foundation was laid.
Ephesians 2:4–7But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,Both passages describe God’s love toward his people, using loving kindness in the psalm and great love and mercy in Ephesians.
2 Timothy 1:9who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus …Both passages look beyond a human lifespan: the psalm speaks of everlasting loving kindness, and Timothy of grace given before times eternal.
Where this verse fits

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Encouragement

Your lifespan does not set the bounds of God’s loving kindness. His love is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, and his righteousness reaches across generations.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).