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For your steadfast love is higher than the heavens,
    and your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.(A)

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For great is your love,(A) higher than the heavens;
    your faithfulness(B) reaches to the skies.(C)

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Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens,
    your faithfulness to the clouds.

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Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens,
    your faithfulness(A) to the skies.(B)

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but God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us(A) even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ[a]—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places[b] in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

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Footnotes

  1. 2.5 Other ancient authorities read in Christ
  2. 2.6 Gk heavenlies

But because of his great love for us,(A) God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions(B)—it is by grace you have been saved.(C) And God raised us up with Christ(D) and seated us with him(E) in the heavenly realms(F) in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace,(G) expressed in his kindness(H) to us in Christ Jesus.

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11 For as the heavens are high above the earth,
    so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;(A)

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11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
    so great is his love(A) for those who fear him;(B)

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I declare that your steadfast love is established forever;
    your faithfulness is as firm as the heavens.(A)

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I will declare that your love stands firm forever,
    that you have established your faithfulness in heaven itself.(A)

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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)
20 You will show faithfulness to Jacob
    and steadfast love to Abraham,
as you have sworn to our ancestors
    from the days of old.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 7.19 Gk Syr Vg Tg: Heb their

18 Who is a God(A) like you,
    who pardons sin(B) and forgives(C) the transgression
    of the remnant(D) of his inheritance?(E)
You do not stay angry(F) forever
    but delight to show mercy.(G)
19 You will again have compassion on us;
    you will tread our sins underfoot
    and hurl all our iniquities(H) into the depths of the sea.(I)
20 You will be faithful to Jacob,
    and show love to Abraham,(J)
as you pledged on oath to our ancestors(K)
    in days long ago.(L)

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For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
    so are my ways higher than your ways
    and my thoughts than your thoughts.(A)

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“As the heavens are higher than the earth,(A)
    so are my ways higher than your ways
    and my thoughts than your thoughts.(B)

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The Lord is high above all nations
    and his glory above the heavens.(A)

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The Lord is exalted(A) over all the nations,
    his glory above the heavens.(B)

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Let the heavens praise your wonders, O Lord,
    your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones.(A)

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The heavens(A) praise your wonders, Lord,
    your faithfulness too, in the assembly(B) of the holy ones.

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10 Steadfast love and faithfulness will meet;
    righteousness and peace will kiss each other.(A)

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10 Love and faithfulness(A) meet together;
    righteousness(B) and peace kiss each other.

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