(A)The Lord is gracious and full of compassion,
Slow to anger and great in mercy.

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18 (A)‘The Lord is longsuffering and abundant in mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He by no means clears the guilty, (B)visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation.

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For (A)You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive,
And abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You.

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For the Lord is good;
(A)His mercy is everlasting,
And His truth endures to all generations.

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18 (A)Who is a God like You,
(B)Pardoning iniquity
And passing over the transgression of (C)the remnant of His heritage?

(D)He does not retain His anger forever,
Because He delights in (E)mercy.[a]
19 He will again have compassion on us,
And will subdue our iniquities.

You will cast all [b]our sins
Into the depths of the sea.
20 (F)You will give truth to Jacob
And [c]mercy to Abraham,
(G)Which You have sworn to our fathers
From days of old.

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 7:18 Or lovingkindness
  2. Micah 7:19 Lit. their
  3. Micah 7:20 Or lovingkindness

15 But (A)You, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious,
Longsuffering and abundant in mercy and truth.

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20 Moreover (A)the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace (B)abounded much more, 21 so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord (A)God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in (B)goodness and (C)truth, (D)keeping mercy for thousands, (E)forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, (F)by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”

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So he prayed to the Lord, and said, “Ah, Lord, was not this what I said when I was still in my country? Therefore I (A)fled previously to Tarshish; for I know that You are a (B)gracious and merciful God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, One who relents from doing harm.

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But God, (A)who is rich in mercy, because of His (B)great love with which He loved us,

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(A)To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, though we have rebelled against Him.

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which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and [a]prudence,

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 1:8 understanding

to the praise of the glory of His grace, (A)by which He [a]made us accepted in (B)the Beloved.

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 1:6 Lit. bestowed grace (favor) upon us

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