Joel 2:13
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13 So (A)rend your heart, and not (B)your garments;
Return to the Lord your God,
For He is (C)gracious and merciful,
Slow to anger, and of great kindness;
And He relents from doing harm.
Psalm 34:18
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18 (A)The Lord is near (B)to those who have a broken heart,
And saves such as [a]have a contrite spirit.
Footnotes
- Psalm 34:18 are crushed in spirit
Psalm 86:15
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15 But (A)You, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious,
Longsuffering and abundant in mercy and truth.
Exodus 34:6-7
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6 And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord (A)God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in (B)goodness and (C)truth, 7 (D)keeping mercy for thousands, (E)forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, (F)by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”
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Isaiah 57:15
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15 For thus says the High and Lofty One
Who inhabits eternity, (A)whose name is Holy:
(B)“I dwell in the high and holy place,
(C)With him who has a contrite and humble spirit,
(D)To revive the spirit of the humble,
And to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
Matthew 5:3-4
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3 “Blessed(A) are the poor in spirit,
For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4 (B)Blessed are those who mourn,
For they shall be comforted.
Micah 7:18
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18 (A)Who is a God like You,
(B)Pardoning iniquity
And passing over the transgression of (C)the remnant of His heritage?
Footnotes
- Micah 7:18 Or lovingkindness
James 1:19-20
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Qualities Needed in Trials
19 [a]So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, (A)slow to speak, (B)slow to wrath; 20 for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
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- James 1:19 NU Know this or This you know
2 Samuel 1:11
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11 Therefore David took hold of his own clothes and (A)tore them, and so did all the men who were with him.
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Jonah 4:2
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2 So he prayed to the Lord, and said, “Ah, Lord, was not this what I said when I was still in my country? Therefore I (A)fled previously to Tarshish; for I know that You are a (B)gracious and merciful God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, One who relents from doing harm.
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Psalm 86:5
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5 For (A)You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive,
And abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You.
Romans 5:20-21
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20 Moreover (A)the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace (B)abounded much more, 21 so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Jeremiah 18:7-8
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7 The instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to (A)pluck up, to pull down, and to destroy it, 8 (B)if that nation against whom I have spoken turns from its evil, (C)I will relent of the disaster that I thought to bring upon it.
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Isaiah 66:2
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2 For all those things My hand has made,
And all those things exist,”
Says the Lord.
(A)“But on this one will I look:
(B)On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit,
And who trembles at My word.
Job 1:20
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20 Then Job arose, (A)tore his robe, and shaved his head; and he (B)fell to the ground and worshiped.
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2 Kings 22:19
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19 because your (A)heart was tender, and you (B)humbled yourself before the Lord when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they would become (C)a desolation and (D)a curse, and you tore your clothes and wept before Me, I also have heard you,” says the Lord.
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Psalm 103:8
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8 (A)The Lord is merciful and gracious,
Slow to anger, and abounding in mercy.
Psalm 51:17
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17 (A)The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit,
A broken and a contrite heart—
These, O God, You will not despise.
Ephesians 2:4
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4 But God, (A)who is rich in mercy, because of His (B)great love with which He loved us,
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1 Kings 21:27
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27 So it was, when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes and (A)put sackcloth on his body, and fasted and lay in sackcloth, and went about mourning.
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Genesis 37:34
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34 Then Jacob (A)tore his clothes, put sackcloth on his waist, and (B)mourned for his son many days.
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Genesis 37:29
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29 Then Reuben returned to the pit, and indeed Joseph was not in the pit; and he (A)tore his clothes.
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1 Timothy 4:8
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8 For (A)bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable for all things, (B)having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.
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Romans 2:4
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4 Or do you despise (A)the riches of His goodness, (B)forbearance, and (C)longsuffering, (D)not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
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Matthew 6:16-18
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Fasting to Be Seen Only by God
16 “Moreover, (A)when you fast, do not be like the [a]hypocrites, with a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be fasting. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. 17 But you, when you fast, (B)anoint your head and wash your face, 18 so that you do not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you [b]openly.
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- Matthew 6:16 pretenders
- Matthew 6:18 NU, M omit openly
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