1 Timothy 1:16

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Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.

I obtained

1 Timothy 1:13

2 Corinthians 4:1

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I obtained

one who was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an arrogant man. But I received mercy because I acted out of ignorance in unbelief.

Therefore, since we have this ministry because we were shown mercy, we do not give up.

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Moses immediately bowed down to the ground and worshiped.

Or do you despise the riches of His kindness, restraint, and patience, not recognizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?

who in the past were disobedient, when God patiently waited in the days of Noah while an ark was being prepared. In it a few—that is, eight people

—were saved through water.

The Lord does not delay His promise, as some understand delay, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish but all to come to repentance.

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So Manasseh caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to stray so that they did worse evil than the nations the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites.

Let the wicked one abandon his way
and the sinful one his thoughts;
let him return to the Lord,
so He may have compassion on him,
and to our God, for He will freely forgive.

Therefore I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven; that’s why she loved much. But the one who is forgiven little, loves little.”

I tell you, in the same way, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels over one sinner who repents.”

“But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even raise his eyes to heaven but kept striking his chest

and saying, ‘God, turn Your wrath from me

—a sinner!’

All who saw it began to complain, “He’s gone to lodge with a sinful man!”

And He said to him, “I assure you: Today you will be with Me in paradise.”

Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never cast out.

and everyone who believes in Him is justified from everything that you could not be justified from through the law of Moses.

The law came along to multiply the trespass. But where sin multiplied, grace multiplied even more

For whatever was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that we may have hope through endurance and through the encouragement from the Scriptures.

Therefore, He is always able to save those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.

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But so you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,”

He told the paralytic,

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the lost.”

And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life.