The Lord is (A)gracious and merciful,
    slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

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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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The Lord is (A)merciful and gracious,
    slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

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For you, O Lord, are good and (A)forgiving,
    (B)abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you.

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(A)For the Lord is good;
    his steadfast love endures forever,
    and his (B)faithfulness to all generations.

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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.

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

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 7:19 Hebrew their

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, (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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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 34:7 Or to the thousandth generation

But[a] God, being (A)rich in mercy, (B)because of the great love with which he loved us,

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 2:4 Or And

which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight

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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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(A)To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him

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(A)to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in (B)the Beloved.

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