Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
Merciful
General references
Bible References
Merciful
Psalm 86:5
You, O Jehovah, are good and forgiving, full of loving kindness toward everyone who calls out to you.
Psalm 130:7
O Israel hope in Jehovah! For with Jehovah there is loving kindness. With him is abundant redemption.
Psalm 145:8
Jehovah is gracious and merciful; Slow to anger and great in loving-kindness.
Exodus 34:6
Jehovah then passed in front of him and called out: I, Jehovah, am a God who is full of compassion and pity. I am not easily angered and show great love and faithfulness.
Numbers 14:18
Jehovah is patient, forever loving; He forgives wrongdoing and disobedience. He never lets the guilty go unpunished. In fact he punishes children for their parents' sins to the third and fourth generation.
Deuteronomy 5:10
I show loving kindness to thousands of generations who love me and obey my commandments.
Nehemiah 9:17
They would not obey you and gave no thought to the wonders you did among them. They became stubborn and turning away from you. They appointed a leader over themselves to take them back to their prison in Egypt. However, you are a God of forgiveness, full of grace and pity, slow to wrath and great in mercy, and you did not give them up.
Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn to Jehovah, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
Jeremiah 32:18
You show loving kindness to thousands, but repay the iniquity of fathers into the bosom of their children after them. O great and mighty God. Jehovah of Hosts is his name.
Romans 5:20
The law came that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased God's loving kindness increased even more.
Ephesians 1:7
In him we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace.
Slow
Joel 2:13
Rip apart your heart, and not your garments. Turn to Jehovah your God! He is gracious and merciful. He is slow to anger and abundant in loving-kindness. He will turn back from doing harm.
Jonah 4:2
He prayed to Jehovah: I pray to you, O Jehovah, was this what I said, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish. Because I knew that you are a gracious God. You are merciful, slow to anger, abundant in loving kindness, and one who takes pity over calamity (tragedy) (catastrophe) (disaster).
Nahum 1:3
Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power! He will by no means reprieve the guilty (leave them unpunished). Jehovah has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm. The clouds are the dust of his feet.
General references
Lamentations 3:31
Jehovah does not give a man up for a very long time.