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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But[a] God, being (A)rich in mercy, (B)because of the great love with which he loved us, even (C)when we were dead in our trespasses, (D)made us alive together with Christ—(E)by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and (F)seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable (G)riches of his grace in (H)kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 2:4 Or And

O Israel, (A)hope in the Lord!
    For (B)with the Lord there is steadfast love,
    and with him is plentiful redemption.

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(A)In him we have (B)redemption (C)through his blood, (D)the forgiveness of our trespasses, (E)according to the riches of his grace,

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

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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.

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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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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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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 9:17 Some Hebrew manuscripts; many Hebrew manuscripts and in their rebellion appointed a leader to return to their slavery

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

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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.

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

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He has (A)caused his wondrous works to be remembered;
    the Lord is gracious and merciful.

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He has (A)remembered his (B)steadfast love and faithfulness
    to the house of Israel.
All (C)the ends of the earth have seen
    (D)the salvation of our God.

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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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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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17 For (A)the law was given through Moses; (B)grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

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And behold, I have appointed with him (A)Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. And I have given to all able men (B)ability, that they may make all that I have commanded you: (C)the tent of meeting, and (D)the ark of the testimony, and (E)the mercy seat that is on it, and all the furnishings of the tent,

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Christ the Hope of Jews and Gentiles

For I tell you that Christ (A)became a servant to the circumcised to show God's truthfulness, in order (B)to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs, and in order (C)that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written,

(D)“Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles,
    and sing to your name.”

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