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24 and he is gracious to that person and says,
    ‘Deliver him from going down into the Pit;
    I have found a ransom;(A)

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28 just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve and to give his life a ransom for many.”(A)

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Truly, no ransom avails for one’s life;[a]
    there is no price one can give to God for it.(A)
For the ransom of life is costly
    and can never suffice,(B)

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  1. 49.7 Or no one can ransom a brother

18 to spare their souls from the Pit,
    their lives from traversing the River.

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18 You know that you were ransomed from the futile conduct inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without defect or blemish.(A)

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    who gave himself a ransom for all

—this was attested at the right time.(A)

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20 But law came in, so that the trespass might increase, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,(A) 21 so that, just as sin reigned in death, so grace might also reign through justification leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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11 As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you,
    I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.(A)

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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)
20 You will show faithfulness to Jacob
    and steadfast love to Abraham,
as you have sworn to our ancestors
    from the days of old.(C)

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  1. 7.19 Gk Syr Vg Tg: Heb their

Assurance of Forgiveness

I will heal their disloyalty;
    I will love them freely,
    for my anger has turned from them.(A)

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21 “Agree with God,[a] and be at peace;
    in this way good will come to you.(A)

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  1. 22.21 Heb him

19 And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you the name, ‘The Lord,’[a] and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.(A)

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  1. 33.19 Heb YHWH; see note at 3.15

24 they are now justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,(A) 25 whom God put forward as a sacrifice of atonement[a] by his blood, effective through faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over the sins previously committed;(B) 26 it was to demonstrate at the present time his own righteousness, so that he is righteous and he justifies the one who has the faith of Jesus.[b]

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  1. 3.25 Or a place of atonement
  2. 3.26 Or has faith in Jesus

20 Is Ephraim my dear son?
    Is he the child in whom I delight?
As often as I speak against him,
    I still remember him.
Therefore I am deeply moved for him;
    I will surely have mercy on him,
            says the Lord.(A)

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17 Surely it was for my welfare
    that I had great bitterness,
but you have held back[a] my life
    from the pit of destruction,
for you have cast all my sins
    behind your back.(A)
18 For Sheol cannot thank you;
    death cannot praise you;
those who go down to the Pit cannot hope
    for your faithfulness.(B)
19 The living, the living, they thank you,
    as I do this day;
fathers make known to children
    your faithfulness.(C)

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  1. 38.17 Cn Compare Gk Vg: Heb loved

15 But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious,
    slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.(A)

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13 For great is your steadfast love toward me;
    you have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.(A)

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For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving,
    abounding in steadfast love to all who call on you.(A)

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Be to me a rock of refuge,
    a strong fortress[a] to save me,
    for you are my rock and my fortress.(A)

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  1. 71.3 Gk: Heb to come continually you have commanded

He drew me up from the desolate pit,[a]
    out of the miry bog,
and set my feet upon a rock,
    making my steps secure.(A)

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  1. 40.2 Cn: Heb pit of tumult

“What profit is there in my death,
    if I go down to the Pit?
Will the dust praise you?
    Will it tell of your faithfulness?(A)
10 Hear, O Lord, and be gracious to me!
    O Lord, be my helper!”[a]

11 You have turned my mourning into dancing;
    you have taken off my sackcloth
    and clothed me with joy,(B)
12 so that my soul[b] may praise you and not be silent.
    O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever.(C)

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  1. 30.10 Or The Lord heard and was gracious to me; the Lord became my helper
  2. 30.12 Heb that glory

In you our ancestors trusted;
    they trusted, and you delivered them.

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18 Beware that wrath does not entice you into scoffing,
    and do not let the greatness of the ransom turn you aside.(A)

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10 He opens their ears to instruction
    and commands that they return from iniquity.(A)
11 If they listen and serve him,
    they complete their days in prosperity
    and their years in pleasantness.(B)

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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)
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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  1. 34.7 Or for thousands