He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
Parallel translations
- WEB He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us for our iniquities.
- BSB He has not dealt with us according to our sins or repaid us according to our iniquities.
- NKJV He has not dealt with us according to our sins, Nor punished us according to our iniquities.
- NASB He has not dealt with us according to our sins, Nor rewarded us according to our guilty deeds.
- NLT He does not punish us for all our sins; he does not deal harshly with us, as we deserve.
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God has not treated us as our sins deserve nor repaid us according to our iniquities. This is the very definition of grace.
Overview
Were God to deal with us strictly by justice, we would be condemned; instead He withholds the punishment we have earned. This restraint flows from His mercy, not our merit. Its ground is the cross, where Christ bore the full penalty so that we receive mercy rather than the wrath our sins deserved.
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- Ezra 9:13And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this;
- Lam 3:22It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
- Neh 9:31Nevertheless for thy great mercies’ sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.
- Ps 130:3If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
- Job 11:6And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.
- Dan 9:18–19O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.
- Hab 3:2O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.
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