Nehemiah 9:17
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17 they refused to obey and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and you did not forsake them.(A)
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Joel 2:13
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13 rend your hearts and not your clothing.
Return to the Lord your God,
for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love,
and relenting from punishment.(A)
Psalm 86:5
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5 For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving,
abounding in steadfast love to all who call on you.(A)
Psalm 145:8-9
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8 The Lord is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.(A)
9 The Lord is good to all,
and his compassion is over all that he has made.(B)
Psalm 86:15
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15 But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.(A)
Micah 7:18-19
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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)
Footnotes
- 7.19 Gk Syr Vg Tg: Heb their
Romans 9:15
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15 For he says to Moses,
“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,
and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”(A)
Matthew 16:9-11
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9 Do you still not perceive? Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand and how many baskets you gathered?(A) 10 Or the seven loaves for the four thousand and how many baskets you gathered?(B) 11 How could you fail to perceive that I was not speaking about bread? Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!”
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Isaiah 55:7-9
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7 let the wicked forsake their way
and the unrighteous their thoughts;
let them return to the Lord, that he may have mercy on them,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.(A)
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.(B)
Psalm 103:8-18
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8 The Lord is merciful and gracious,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.(A)
9 He will not always accuse,
nor will he keep his anger forever.(B)
10 He does not deal with us according to our sins
nor repay us according to our iniquities.(C)
11 For as the heavens are high above the earth,
so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;(D)
12 as far as the east is from the west,
so far he removes our transgressions from us.(E)
13 As a father has compassion for his children,
so the Lord has compassion for those who fear him.(F)
14 For he knows how we were made;
he remembers that we are dust.(G)
15 As for mortals, their days are like grass;
they flourish like a flower of the field;(H)
16 for the wind passes over it, and it is gone,
and its place knows it no more.
17 But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting
on those who fear him,
and his righteousness to children’s children,
18 to those who keep his covenant
and remember to do his commandments.(I)
Psalm 78:38
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38 Yet he, being compassionate,
forgave their iniquity
and did not destroy them;
often he restrained his anger
and did not stir up all his wrath.(A)
1 Kings 6:13
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13 I will dwell among the Israelites and will not forsake my people Israel.”(A)
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Numbers 14:18-19
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18 ‘The Lord is slow to anger
and abounding in steadfast love,
forgiving iniquity and transgression,
but by no means clearing the guilty,
visiting the iniquity of the parents
upon the children
to the third and the fourth generation.’(A)
19 “Forgive the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your steadfast love, just as you have pardoned this people, from Egypt even until now.”(B)
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Exodus 34:6-7
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6 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)
7 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)
Footnotes
- 34.7 Or for thousands
Psalm 106:43-46
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43 Many times he delivered them,
but they were rebellious in their purposes
and were brought low through their iniquity.(A)
44 Nevertheless, he regarded their distress
when he heard their cry.(B)
45 For their sake he remembered his covenant
and showed compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love.(C)
46 He caused them to be pitied
by all who held them captive.(D)
Psalm 106:7
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7 Our ancestors, when they were in Egypt,
did not consider your wonderful works;
they did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love
but rebelled against the Most High[a] at the Red Sea.[b](A)
Psalm 78:42-43
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42 They did not keep in mind his power
or the day when he redeemed them from the foe,
43 when he displayed his signs in Egypt
and his miracles in the fields of Zoan.
Psalm 78:11
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11 They forgot what he had done
and the miracles that he had shown them.(A)
1 Kings 8:57
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57 The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our ancestors; may he not leave us or abandon us,(A)
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Ephesians 1:6-7
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6 to the praise of his glorious grace that he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace(A)
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Psalm 106:13
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13 But they soon forgot his works;
they did not wait for his counsel.(A)
Psalm 130:4
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4 But there is forgiveness with you,
so that you may be revered.(A)
Psalm 106:24-25
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24 Then they despised the pleasant land,
having no faith in his promise.(A)
25 They grumbled in their tents
and did not obey the voice of the Lord.(B)
Numbers 14:3-4
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3 Why is the Lord bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become plunder; would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?” 4 So they said to one another, “Let us choose a captain and go back to Egypt.”
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Hebrews 12:25
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25 See that you do not refuse the one who is speaking, for if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject the one who warns from heaven!(A)
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