Exodus 34:6
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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,
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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.
Joel 2:13
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13 and (A)rend your hearts and not (B)your garments.”
Return to the Lord your God,
(C)for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love;
(D)and he relents over disaster.
Psalm 103:8-13
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8 The Lord is (A)merciful and gracious,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
9 (B)He will not always chide,
nor will he (C)keep his anger forever.
10 He does not deal with us (D)according to our sins,
nor repay us according to our iniquities.
11 For (E)as high as the heavens are above the earth,
so great is his (F)steadfast love toward (G)those who fear him;
12 as far as the east is from the west,
so far does he (H)remove our transgressions from us.
13 As (I)a father shows compassion to his children,
so the Lord shows compassion (J)to those who fear him.
Psalm 145:8
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8 The Lord is (A)gracious and merciful,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
Nehemiah 9:17
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17 They refused to obey (A)and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt.[a] But you are a God ready to forgive, (B)gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them.
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- Nehemiah 9:17 Some Hebrew manuscripts; many Hebrew manuscripts and in their rebellion appointed a leader to return to their slavery
Jonah 4:2
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2 And he prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? (A)That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a (B)gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and (C)relenting from disaster.
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Numbers 14:17-19
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17 And now, please let the power of the Lord be great as you have promised, saying, 18 (A)‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, (B)visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.’ 19 Please (C)pardon the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of your steadfast love, just (D)as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt until now.”
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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.
2 Chronicles 30:9
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9 For (A)if you return to the Lord, your brothers and your children (B)will find compassion with their captors and return to this land. For (C)the Lord your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you, (D)if you return to him.”
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Micah 7:18
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God's Steadfast Love and Compassion
18 (A)Who is a God like you, (B)pardoning iniquity
and passing over transgression
(C)for the remnant of his inheritance?
(D)He does not retain his anger forever,
because he delights in steadfast love.
Deuteronomy 5:10
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10 but showing steadfast love to (A)thousands[a] of those who love me and keep my commandments.
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- Deuteronomy 5:10 Or to the thousandth generation
Psalm 138:2
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2 I bow down (A)toward your (B)holy temple
and give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness,
for you have exalted above all things
your name and your word.[a]
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- Psalm 138:2 Or you have exalted your word above all your name
Psalm 108:4
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4 For your steadfast love is great (A)above the heavens;
your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
Psalm 116:5
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Romans 2:4
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4 Or do you presume on (A)the riches of his kindness and (B)forbearance and (C)patience, (D)not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
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Psalm 111:4
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4 He has (A)caused his wondrous works to be remembered;
the Lord is gracious and merciful.
Psalm 112:4
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Psalm 57:10
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10 For your (A)steadfast love is great to the heavens,
your faithfulness to the clouds.
Exodus 22:27
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27 for that is his only covering, and it is his cloak for his body; in what else shall he sleep? And if he (A)cries to me, I will hear, for I am (B)compassionate.
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John 1:17
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17 For (A)the law was given through Moses; (B)grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
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Micah 7:20
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20 (A)You will show faithfulness to Jacob
and steadfast love to Abraham,
(B)as you have sworn to our fathers
from the days of old.
Exodus 3:13-16
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13 Then Moses said to God, “If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?” 14 God said to Moses, “I am who I am.”[a] And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel: (A)‘I am has sent me to you.’” 15 God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘The Lord,[b] the (B)God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is (C)my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations. 16 Go and (D)gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, (E)“I have observed you and what has been done to you in Egypt,
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- Exodus 3:14 Or I am what I am, or I will be what I will be
- Exodus 3:15 The word Lord, when spelled with capital letters, stands for the divine name, YHWH, which is here connected with the verb hayah, “to be” in verse 14
Lamentations 3:23
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