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

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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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The Lord is (A)gracious and merciful,
    slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
The Lord is (B)good to all,
    and his mercy is over all that he has made.

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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,

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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)merciful and gracious,
    slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

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21 And it shall come to pass that (A)everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.’

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18 The Lord is (A)near to all who call on him,
    to all who call on him (B)in truth.

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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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(A)Good and upright is the Lord;
    therefore he (B)instructs sinners in the way.

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(A)Anyone who does not love does not know God, because (B)God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that (C)God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.

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(A)to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in (B)the Beloved. (C)In him we have (D)redemption (E)through his blood, (F)the forgiveness of our trespasses, (G)according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight

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12 (A)For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; (B)for the same Lord is Lord of all, (C)bestowing his riches on all who call on him. 13 For (D)“everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

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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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10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you (A)living water.”

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And I tell you, (A)ask, and (B)it will be given to you; (C)seek, and you will find; (D)knock, and it will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

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

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37 “Thus says the Lord God: This also (A)I will let the house of Israel ask me to do for them: (B)to increase their people like (C)a flock.

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33 “Thus says the Lord God: On the day that (A)I cleanse you from all your iniquities, (B)I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be rebuilt.

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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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68 (A)You are good and do good;
    (B)teach me your statutes.

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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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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)Call to me and I will answer you, (B)and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.

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16 Answer me, O Lord, for your (A)steadfast love is good;
    according to your abundant (B)mercy, (C)turn to me.

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