Yahweh is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.
Parallel translations
- KJV The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.
- BSB The LORD is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion.
- NKJV The Lord is gracious and full of compassion, Slow to anger and great in mercy.
- NASB ¶The Lord is gracious and compassionate; Slow to anger and great in mercy.
- NLT The Lord is merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love.
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- Num 14:18‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’
- Ps 103:8Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.
- Ps 86:5For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
- Ps 100:5For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.
- Ps 116:5Yahweh is Gracious and righteous. Yes, our God is merciful.
- Rom 5:20–21The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;
- Ps 86:15But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.
- Mic 7:18–20Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
- Exod 34:6–7Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
- Eph 2:4But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
- Eph 1:8which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,
- Jonah 4:2He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.
- Dan 9:9To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we have rebelled against him;
- Eph 1:6to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,
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