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

even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor, and an arrogant man. But I was treated with mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief,

Therefore, since we have this ministry, just as God has shown us mercy, we do not become discouraged.

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Moses quickly bowed to the ground and worshiped

Or do you have contempt for the wealth of his kindness, forbearance, and patience, and yet do not know that God's kindness leads you to repentance?

after they were disobedient long ago when God patiently waited in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through water.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some regard slowness, but is being patient toward you, because he does not wish for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.

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But Manasseh misled the people of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem so that they sinned more than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed ahead of the Israelites.

The wicked need to abandon their lifestyle and sinful people their plans. They should return to the Lord, and he will show mercy to them, and to their God, for he will freely forgive them.

Therefore I tell you, her sins, which were many, are forgiven, thus she loved much; but the one who is forgiven little loves little."

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

The tax collector, however, stood far off and would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, be merciful to me, sinner that I am!'

And when the people saw it, they all complained, "He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner."

And Jesus said to him, "I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise."

Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never send away.

and by this one everyone who believes is justified from everything from which the law of Moses could not justify you.

Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,

For everything that was written in former times was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we may have hope.

So he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.

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But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins," -- he said to the paralytic --

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

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost."

Now this is the promise that he himself made to us: eternal life.