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.
Isaiah 43:25
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25 “I, I am he
(A)who blots out (B)your transgressions for my own sake,
and I will not remember your sins.
Isaiah 44:22
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22 (A)I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud
and your sins like mist;
return to me, for I have redeemed you.
Ephesians 2:4-5
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4 But[a] God, being (A)rich in mercy, (B)because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even (C)when we were dead in our trespasses, (D)made us alive together with Christ—(E)by grace you have been saved—
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- Ephesians 2:4 Or And
Psalm 103:8-9
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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.
Jeremiah 50:20
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20 In those days and in that time, declares the Lord, (A)iniquity shall be sought in Israel, and there shall be none, and sin in Judah, and none shall be found, for (B)I will pardon those whom I leave as a remnant.
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Acts 13:38-39
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38 Let it be known to you therefore, brothers, (A)that through this man (B)forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, 39 and by him (C)everyone who believes is freed[a] from everything (D)from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.
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- Acts 13:39 Greek justified; twice in this verse
Lamentations 3:31-32
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31 (A)For the Lord will not
cast off forever,
32 but, though he (B)cause grief, (C)he will have compassion
(D)according to the abundance of his steadfast love;
Jeremiah 32:41
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41 (A)I will rejoice in doing them good, (B)and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, with all my heart and all my soul.
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Jeremiah 3:12
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12 Go, and proclaim these words toward (A)the north, and say,
(B)“‘Return, faithless Israel,
declares the Lord.
I will not look on you in anger,
for (C)I am merciful,
declares the Lord;
(D)I will not be angry forever.
Psalm 130:7-8
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7 O Israel, (A)hope in the Lord!
For (B)with the Lord there is steadfast love,
and with him is plentiful redemption.
8 And he will (C)redeem Israel
from all his iniquities.
Exodus 15:11
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11 (A)“Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods?
Who is like you, majestic in holiness,
awesome in (B)glorious deeds, (C)doing wonders?
Psalm 89:8
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8 O Lord God of hosts,
(A)who is mighty as you are, O (B)Lord,
with your faithfulness all around you?
Hebrews 8:9-12
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9 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers
on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt.
For they did not continue in my covenant,
and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord.
10 (A)For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
after those days, declares the Lord:
I will put my laws into their minds,
and (B)write them on their hearts,
and I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.
11 And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor
and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’
for they shall (C)all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest.
12 For I will be merciful toward their iniquities,
(D)and I will remember their sins no more.”
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 65:3
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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 4:7
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7 and the lame I will make (A)the remnant,
and those who were cast off, a strong nation;
and (B)the Lord will reign over them (C)in Mount Zion
from this time forth and forevermore.
Micah 2:12
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12 I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob;
(A)I will gather (B)the remnant of Israel;
I will set them together
like sheep in a fold,
(C)like a flock in its pasture,
a noisy multitude of men.
Psalm 89:6
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6 For (A)who in the skies can be compared to the Lord?
(B)Who among the heavenly beings[a] is like the Lord,
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- Psalm 89:6 Hebrew the sons of God, or the sons of might
Luke 24:47
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47 and that (A)repentance for[a] the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed (B)in his name (C)to all nations, (D)beginning from Jerusalem.
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- Luke 24:47 Some manuscripts and
1 Kings 8:23
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23 and said, “O Lord, God of Israel, (A)there is no God like you, in heaven above or on earth beneath, (B)keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to your servants who walk before you with all their heart;
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Deuteronomy 33:26
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26 (A)“There is none like God, O (B)Jeshurun,
(C)who rides through the heavens to your help,
through the skies in his majesty.
Exodus 33:18-19
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18 Moses said, “Please (A)show me your glory.” 19 And he said, (B)“I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The Lord.’ And (C)I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.
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James 2:13
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13 For (A)judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
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