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
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 86:5
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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.
Psalm 145:8-9
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8 The Lord is (A)gracious and merciful,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
9 The Lord is (B)good to all,
and his mercy is over all that he has made.
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.
Numbers 14:18-19
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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.’ 19 Please (C)pardon the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of your steadfast love, just (D)as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt until now.”
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Romans 9:15
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15 For he says to Moses, (A)“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
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Matthew 16:9-11
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9 (A)Do you not yet perceive? Do you not remember (B)the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you gathered? 10 Or (C)the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you gathered? 11 How is it that you fail to understand that I did not speak about bread? (D)Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
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Micah 7:18-19
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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.
19 He will (E)again have compassion on us;
(F)he will tread our iniquities underfoot.
(G)You will cast all our[a] sins
into the depths of the sea.
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- Micah 7:19 Hebrew their
Isaiah 55:7-9
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7 let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
9 (A)For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Psalm 106:43-46
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43 (A)Many times he delivered them,
but they were rebellious in their (B)purposes
and were (C)brought low through their iniquity.
44 Nevertheless, he looked upon their distress,
when he (D)heard their cry.
45 For their sake he (E)remembered his covenant,
and (F)relented according to (G)the abundance of his steadfast love.
46 He caused them to be (H)pitied
by all those who held them captive.
Psalm 106:7
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7 Our fathers, when they were in Egypt,
did not consider your wondrous works;
they (A)did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love,
but (B)rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.
Psalm 103:8-18
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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.
10 He does not deal with us (D)according to our sins,
nor repay us according to our iniquities.
11 For (E)as high as the heavens are above the earth,
so great is his (F)steadfast love toward (G)those who fear him;
12 as far as the east is from the west,
so far does he (H)remove our transgressions from us.
13 As (I)a father shows compassion to his children,
so the Lord shows compassion (J)to those who fear him.
14 For he knows our frame;[a]
he (K)remembers that we are dust.
15 As for man, his days are like (L)grass;
he flourishes like (M)a flower of the field;
16 for (N)the wind passes over it, and (O)it is gone,
and (P)its place knows it no more.
17 But (Q)the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on (R)those who fear him,
and his righteousness to (S)children's children,
18 to those who (T)keep his covenant
and (U)remember to do his commandments.
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- Psalm 103:14 Or knows how we are formed
Psalm 78:42-43
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42 They (A)did not remember his power[a]
or the day when he redeemed them from the foe,
43 (B)when he performed his (C)signs in Egypt
and his (D)marvels in (E)the fields of Zoan.
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- Psalm 78:42 Hebrew hand
Psalm 78:38
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38 Yet he, being (A)compassionate,
(B)atoned for their iniquity
and did not destroy them;
he restrained his anger often
and did not stir up all his wrath.
Psalm 78:11
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1 Kings 8:57
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57 The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. (A)May he not leave us or forsake us,
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1 Kings 6:13
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13 And (A)I will dwell among the children of Israel (B)and will not forsake my people Israel.”
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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
Psalm 106:13
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Psalm 106:24-25
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24 Then they (A)despised (B)the pleasant land,
having (C)no faith in his promise.
25 They (D)murmured in their tents,
and did not obey the voice of the Lord.
Numbers 14:3-4
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3 Why is the Lord bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? (A)Our wives and our little ones will become a prey. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?” 4 And they said to one another, (B)“Let us choose a leader and (C)go back to Egypt.”
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Hebrews 12:25
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25 See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For (A)if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven.
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Acts 7:39
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39 Our fathers refused to obey him, but thrust him aside, and (A)in their hearts they turned to Egypt,
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