1 Chronicles 21:13
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13 Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Let me fall into the hand of the Lord, for his mercy is very great, but do not let me fall into the hand of man.”
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Hebrews 10:31
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31 (A)It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
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Philippians 1:23
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23 (A)I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is (B)to depart and (C)be with Christ, for that is far better.
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Isaiah 55:7
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7 let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Psalm 130:7
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7 O Israel, (A)hope in the Lord!
For (B)with the Lord there is steadfast love,
and with him is plentiful redemption.
Isaiah 63:7
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The Lord's Mercy Remembered
7 I will recount the steadfast love of the Lord,
the praises of the Lord,
according to all that the Lord has granted us,
(A)and the great goodness to the house of Israel
that he has granted them according to his compassion,
according to the abundance of his steadfast love.
Isaiah 47:6
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6 (A)I was angry with my people;
I profaned my heritage;
I gave them into your hand;
(B)you showed them no mercy;
on the aged you made your yoke exceedingly heavy.
Isaiah 46:7
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7 (A)They lift it to their shoulders, they carry it,
they set it in its place, and it stands there;
(B)it cannot move from its place.
If one cries to it, it does not answer
or save him from his trouble.
Proverbs 12:10
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10 (A)Whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast,
but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.
Psalm 130:4
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Psalm 106:7
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7 Our fathers, when they were in Egypt,
did not consider your wondrous works;
they (A)did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love,
but (B)rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.
Psalm 103:8
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8 The Lord is (A)merciful and gracious,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
Psalm 86:15
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15 But you, O Lord, are a God (A)merciful and gracious,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.
Psalm 86:5
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5 For you, O Lord, are good and (A)forgiving,
(B)abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you.
Psalm 69:16
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16 Answer me, O Lord, for your (A)steadfast love is good;
according to your abundant (B)mercy, (C)turn to me.
Psalm 69:13
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13 But as for me, my (A)prayer is to you, O Lord.
At (B)an acceptable time, O God,
in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness.
Psalm 51:1-2
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Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when (A)Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
51 (B)Have mercy on me,[a] O God,
according to your steadfast love;
according to your (C)abundant mercy
(D)blot out my transgressions.
2 (E)Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,
and (F)cleanse me from my sin!
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- Psalm 51:1 Or Be gracious to me
Psalm 5:7
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7 But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love,
will enter your house.
I will (A)bow down (B)toward your (C)holy temple
in the fear of you.
Esther 4:16
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16 “Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for (A)three days, night or day. I and my young women will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, (B)and if I perish, I perish.”[a]
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- Esther 4:16 Hebrew if I am destroyed, then I will be destroyed
Esther 4:11
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11 “All the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces know that if any man or woman goes to the king inside (A)the inner court without being called, (B)there is but one law—to be put to death, except the one (C)to whom the king holds out the golden scepter so that he may live. But as for me, I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.”
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2 Chronicles 28:9
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9 But a prophet of the Lord was there, whose name was Oded, and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria and said to them, “Behold, because the Lord, the God of your fathers, (A)was angry with Judah, he gave them into your hand, but you have killed them in a rage (B)that has reached up to heaven.
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2 Kings 7:4
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4 If we say, ‘Let us enter the city,’ the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. And if we sit here, we die also. So now come, let us go over to the camp of the Syrians. If they spare our lives we shall live, and if they kill us we shall but die.”
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2 Kings 6:15
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15 When the servant of the man of God rose early in the morning and went out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was all around the city. And the servant said, “Alas, my master! What shall we do?”
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Exodus 34:6-7
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6 The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, (A)“The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and (B)gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast (C)love and faithfulness, 7 (D)keeping steadfast love for thousands,[a] (E)forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but (F)who will by no means clear the guilty, (G)visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.”
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- Exodus 34:7 Or to the thousandth generation
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