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.

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1 Timothy 1:13

2 Corinthians 4:1

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I obtained

Though, formerly, a defamer, and persecutor, and insulter; nevertheless mercy was shown me, because, without knowledge, I acted, in unbelief:

Wherefore, having this ministry, even as we received mercy, we faint not;

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Then Moses made haste, - and bent his head towards the earth and bowed himself down;

Or, the riches of his kindness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, dost thou despise, - not knowing that, the kindness of God, unto repentance, is leading thee?

Spirits unyielding at one time, when the longsuffering of God was holding forth a welcome in the days of Noah, there being in preparation an ark - going into which, a few, that is eight, souls, were brought safely through by means of water, -

The Lord is, not slack, concerning his promise, as some count, slackness; but is long-suffering with regard to you, not being minded that any should perish, but that, all, unto repentance, should come.

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And so Manasseh led astray Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, - to commit wickedness beyond the nations which Yahweh had destroyed from before the sons of Israel.

Let the lawless forsake his way, And the man of iniquity, his thoughts, - And let him return unto Yahweh That he may have compassion upon him, And unto our God, For he will abundantly pardon.

For which cause, I say unto thee - Her many sins, have been forgiven, because she hath loved, much: but, he to whom little is forgiven, little, loveth.

Thus, I say unto you, there ariseth joy in presence of the messengers of God, over one sinner repenting.

But, the tax-collector, afar off, standing, - would not so much as lift up, his eyes, unto heaven, but kept smiting his own breast saying - O God! be propitiated unto me, the sinner!

And all, when they beheld, began to murmur, saying - With a sinful man, hath he gone in to lodge!

And he said unto him - Verily, I say unto thee this day: With me, shalt thou be in Paradise.

All that which the Father is giving me, unto me, will have come, and, him that cometh unto me, in nowise will I cast out, -

And, from all things from which ye could not, by the law of Moses, be justified, by this man, everyone that believeth, is justified.

Law, however, gained admission, in order that the fault might abound, but, where the sin abounded, the favour greatly superabounded:

Whatsoever things, in fact, were written aforetime, allfor our own instruction were written, - in order that, through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have their hope.

Whence he is able, even to be saving unto the very end, them who approach, through him, unto God; Since he evermore liveth to be interceding in their behalf.

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But, that ye may know that the Son of Man hath authority to be forgiving sins upon the earth, he saith to the paralytic:

I have not come to call, righteous, men, but, sinners, unto repentance.

For the Son of Man came, to seek and to save what was lost.

And, this, is the promise, which he hath promised unto us, - The age-abiding life.