Daniel 9:9
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9 To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, but we have rebelled against him(A)
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Ephesians 1:6-8
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6 to the praise of his glorious grace that he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace(A) 8 that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and insight
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Daniel 9:7
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7 “Righteousness is on your side, O Lord, but open shame, as at this day, falls on us, the people of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and all Israel, those who are near and those who are far away, in all the lands to which you have driven them because of the treachery that they have committed against you.(A)
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Daniel 9:5
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5 we have sinned and done wrong, acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and ordinances.(A)
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Ephesians 2:4-7
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4 but God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us(A) 5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ[a]—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places[b] in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the ages to come he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
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Psalm 130:7
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7 O Israel, hope in the Lord!
For with the Lord there is steadfast love,
and with him is great power to redeem.(A)
Psalm 86:15
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15 But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.(A)
Jeremiah 14:7
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7 Although our iniquities testify against us,
act, O Lord, for your name’s sake;
our rebellions indeed are many,
and we have sinned against you.(A)
Exodus 34:6-7
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6 The Lord passed before him and proclaimed,
“The Lord, the Lord,
a God merciful and gracious,
slow to anger,
and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,(A)
7 keeping steadfast love for the thousandth generation,[a]
forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin,
yet by no means clearing the guilty,
but visiting the iniquity of the parents
upon the children
and the children’s children
to the third and the fourth generation.”(B)
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- 34.7 Or for thousands
Micah 7:18-19
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God’s Compassion and Steadfast Love
18 Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity
and passing over the transgression
of the remnant of his possession?
He does not retain his anger forever
because he delights in showing steadfast love.(A)
19 He will again have compassion upon us;
he will tread our iniquities under foot.
You will cast all our[a] sins
into the depths of the sea.(B)
Footnotes
- 7.19 Gk Syr Vg Tg: Heb their
Psalm 130:4
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4 But there is forgiveness with you,
so that you may be revered.(A)
Psalm 62:12
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12 and steadfast love belongs to you, O Lord.
For you repay to all
according to their work.(A)
Jonah 4:2
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2 He prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord! Is not this what I said while I was still in my own country? That is why I fled to Tarshish at the beginning, for I knew that you are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from punishment.(A)
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Lamentations 3:22-23
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22 The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases,[a]
his mercies never come to an end;(A)
23 they are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.(B)
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- 3.22 Syr Tg: Heb Lord, we are not cut off
Isaiah 63:7
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God’s Mercy Remembered
7 I will recount the gracious deeds of the Lord,
the praiseworthy acts of the Lord,
because of all that the Lord has done for us
and the great favor to the house of Israel
that he has shown them according to his mercy,
according to the abundance of his steadfast love.(A)
Isaiah 55:7
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7 let the wicked forsake their way
and the unrighteous their thoughts;
let them return to the Lord, that he may have mercy on them,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.(A)
Psalm 145:8-9
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8 The Lord is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.(A)
9 The Lord is good to all,
and his compassion is over all that he has made.(B)
Psalm 106:43-45
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43 Many times he delivered them,
but they were rebellious in their purposes
and were brought low through their iniquity.(A)
44 Nevertheless, he regarded their distress
when he heard their cry.(B)
45 For their sake he remembered his covenant
and showed compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love.(C)
Ezekiel 20:13
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13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness; they did not observe my statutes but rejected my ordinances, by whose observance everyone shall live, and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned.
Then I thought I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make an end of them.(A)
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Psalm 86:5
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5 For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving,
abounding in steadfast love to all who call on you.(A)
Nehemiah 9:31
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31 Nevertheless, in your great mercies you did not make an end of them or forsake them, for you are a gracious and merciful God.
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Numbers 14:18-19
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18 ‘The Lord is slow to anger
and abounding in steadfast love,
forgiving iniquity and transgression,
but by no means clearing the guilty,
visiting the iniquity of the parents
upon the children
to the third and the fourth generation.’(A)
19 “Forgive the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your steadfast love, just as you have pardoned this people, from Egypt even until now.”(B)
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Ezekiel 20:8-9
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8 But they rebelled against me and would not listen to me; not one of them cast away the detestable things on which their eyes feasted, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt.
Then I thought I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.(A) 9 But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they lived, in whose sight I made myself known to them in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.(B)
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Nehemiah 9:26-28
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26 “Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you and cast your law behind their backs and killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you, and they committed great blasphemies.(A) 27 Therefore you gave them into the hands of their enemies, who made them suffer. Then in the time of their suffering they cried out to you, and you heard them from heaven, and according to your great mercies you gave them saviors who saved them from the hands of their enemies. 28 But after they had rest, they again did evil before you, and you abandoned them to the hands of their enemies, so that they had dominion over them, yet when they turned and cried to you, you heard from heaven, and many times you rescued them according to your mercies.
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Nehemiah 9:17-19
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17 they refused to obey and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and you did not forsake them.(A) 18 Even when they had cast an image of a calf for themselves and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and had committed great blasphemies,(B) 19 you in your great mercies did not forsake them in the wilderness; the pillar of cloud that led them in the way did not leave them by day nor the pillar of fire by night that gave them light on the way by which they should go.(C)
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