Psalm 103:8
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8 The Lord is (A)merciful and gracious,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
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.
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.
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
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.
Psalm 145:8
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8 The Lord is (A)gracious and merciful,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
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.
James 5:11
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11 Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of (A)the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen (B)the purpose of the Lord, how (C)the Lord is compassionate and merciful.
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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 55:7
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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.
Psalm 130:7
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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.
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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Deuteronomy 5:10
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10 but showing steadfast love to (A)thousands[a] of those who love me and keep my commandments.
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- Deuteronomy 5:10 Or to the thousandth generation
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
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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