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

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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

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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I declare that your steadfast love is established forever;
    your faithfulness is as firm as the heavens.(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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  1. 7.19 Gk Syr Vg Tg: Heb their

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

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

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