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Psalm 25:6
LORD, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness, for they are from old times.
4Show me your ways, LORD. Teach me your paths.
5Guide me in your truth, and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation. I wait for you all day long.
6LORD, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness, for they are from old times.
7Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness’ sake, LORD.
8Good and upright is the LORD, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.
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“Remember” makes this prayer a plea for God to act according to his longstanding mercy, grounding a present request in kindness that reaches far back.
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Colossians 3:12Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;Compassion and kindness connect these texts: the psalm appeals to God's character, while Colossians tells God's beloved people to practice these qualities.
Luke 1:50His mercy is for generations and generations on those who fear him.Both texts speak of God's mercy across time, with Luke naming its reach through generations of those who fear him.
Psalm 103:17But the LORD’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children,Both psalms describe the LORD's loving kindness as reaching far back; Psalm 103 also declares its everlasting continuance.
2 Corinthians 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,The mercy sought from the LORD in the psalm is also central to Paul's praise of the Father of mercies.
Luke 1:78because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the dawn from on high will visit us,Tender mercy belongs to God in both texts, as the ground of the psalm's appeal and the coming dawn in Luke.
Exodus 34:6The LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, “The LORD! The LORD, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,The psalm appeals to the mercy and loving kindness that the LORD proclaims as his own character in Exodus.
Micah 7:18–20Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he …Both texts name God's loving kindness; Micah says he delights in the very kindness on which the psalm's plea rests.
Isaiah 63:15Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory. Where are your zeal and your mighty acts? The yearning of your heart and …Both prayers appeal to God's compassion, though Isaiah voices distress that this compassion seems restrained.
1 John 3:17But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?Compassion is the shared concern: the psalm seeks God's mercy, while John challenges a closed heart toward a brother in need.
Jeremiah 33:11the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, ‘Give thanks to the LORD of …The psalm grounds its plea in God's ancient loving kindness; Jeremiah's song of thanks declares that his loving kindness endures forever.
Philippians 2:1If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,Tender mercies appear in both texts, as the object of prayer in the psalm and among the realities named in Philippians.
Psalm 98:3He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.Psalm 25 asks God to remember his loving kindness; Psalm 98 declares that he has remembered it toward Israel.
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Your request for mercy has a firm ground in God's own character. The kindness sought in this prayer was already his long before your need arose.
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