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 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 34:18
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Isaiah 57:15
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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
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.
Matthew 5:3-4
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3 (A)“Blessed are (B)the poor in spirit, for (C)theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4 “Blessed are (D)those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
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James 1:19-20
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Hearing and Doing the Word
19 (A)Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person (B)be quick to hear, (C)slow to speak, (D)slow to anger; 20 for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
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Jeremiah 18:7-8
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7 If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will (A)pluck up and break down and destroy it, 8 and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, (B)turns from its evil, (C)I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it.
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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.
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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Isaiah 66:2
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2 (A)All these things my hand has made,
and so all these things came to be,
declares the Lord.
(B)But this is the one to whom I will look:
he who is humble and contrite in spirit
and trembles at my word.
Psalm 103:8
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8 The Lord is (A)merciful and gracious,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
2 Samuel 1:11
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11 Then David took hold of his clothes and (A)tore them, and so did all the men who were with him.
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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 51:17
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17 The sacrifices of God are (A)a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
2 Kings 22:19
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19 (A)because your heart was penitent, and you (B)humbled yourself before the Lord, when you heard how I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they should become (C)a desolation and (D)a curse, and you (E)have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, declares the Lord.
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Ephesians 2:4
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4 But[a] God, being (A)rich in mercy, (B)because of the great love with which he loved us,
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- Ephesians 2:4 Or And
Romans 5:20-21
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20 Now (A)the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, (B)grace abounded all the more, 21 so that, (C)as sin reigned in death, (D)grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Psalm 106:45
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45 For their sake he (A)remembered his covenant,
and (B)relented according to (C)the abundance of his steadfast love.
Job 1:20
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20 Then Job arose and (A)tore his (B)robe and (C)shaved his head (D)and fell on the ground and worshiped.
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Psalm 145:7-9
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7 They shall pour forth the fame of your (A)abundant goodness
and shall sing aloud of your righteousness.
8 The Lord is (B)gracious and merciful,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
9 The Lord is (C)good to all,
and his mercy is over all that he has made.
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
Numbers 14:18
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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.’
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Nahum 1:3
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3 (A)The Lord is slow to anger and (B)great in power,
and (C)the Lord will by no means clear the guilty.
(D)His way is in whirlwind and storm,
and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
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