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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Romans 2:4

1 Peter 3:20

2 Peter 3:9

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I obtained

although I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a doer of outrage. But I obtained mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief.

So then, as I have this ministry because of God's mercy to me, I do not lose heart.

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Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and long patience? Do you not know that the kindness of God is leading you to repentance?

who in old times had been disobedient, when God's longsuffering was waiting in the days of Noah, while an ark was building, in which a few persons??ight in number??ere saved by water.)

The Lord does not loiter over his promise, as some men esteem loitering; but he is longsuffering toward you, not purposing that any should perish, but that all should pass on to repentance.

For a

"This is why I tell you that her sins, many as they are, are forgiven, for her love is great; but he who is forgiven little, loves but little.

"Even so I tell you there is joy in the presence of the angels for God over one sinner who repents."

"But the tax-gatherer, standing far back, would not lift up so much as his eyes to heaven, but kept beating his breast and saying, "'O God be merciful to me, the sinner!'

When they all saw it, they began to complain, saying "He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner."

"In solemn truth I tell you," said Jesus, "that this day you shall be with me in Paradise."

"Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me; and him who comes to me I will never reject.

"and that by him every one that believes is justified from all things from which you could never be justified by the law of Moses.

Now law was brought in so that transgression might abound; but where sin abounded, grace super-abounded;

For everything that was written of old has been written for our instruction, that through patience, and through the comfort of the Scriptures, we might have hope.

Hence also he is able to continue saving to the uttermost those who are ever drawing near to God through him, seeing that he is ever living to intercede for them.

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But to let you see that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins"??e said to the paralytic??11 "I bid you rise, take up your cot, and go home."

I am not come to call the righteous but sinners, to repentance."

"For the Son of man is come to seek and to save the lost."

And this is the promise which he has promised to us even life eternal.