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 For You, Lord, are kind and ready to forgive,
rich in faithful love to all who call on You.
rich in faithful love to all who call on You.
Psalm 130:7 Israel, put your hope in the Lord.
For there is faithful love with the Lord,
and with Him is redemption in abundance.
For there is faithful love with the Lord,
and with Him is redemption in abundance.
Psalm 145:8 The Lord is gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and great in faithful love.
slow to anger and great in faithful love.
Exodus 34:6
Then the Lord passed in front of him and proclaimed:
Yahweh—Yahweh is a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and rich in faithful love and truth,
Yahweh—Yahweh is a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and rich in faithful love and truth,
Numbers 14:18
The Lord is slow to anger and rich in faithful love, forgiving wrongdoing and rebellion. But He will not leave the guilty unpunished, bringing the consequences of the fathers’ wrongdoing on the children to the third and fourth generation.
Deuteronomy 5:10 but showing faithful love to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commands.
Nehemiah 9:17 They refused to listen
and did not remember Your wonders
You performed among them.
They became stiff-necked and appointed a leader
to return to their slavery in Egypt.
But You are a forgiving God,
gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and rich in faithful love,
and You did not abandon them.
and did not remember Your wonders
You performed among them.
They became stiff-necked and appointed a leader
to return to their slavery in Egypt.
But You are a forgiving God,
gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and rich in faithful love,
and You did not abandon them.
Isaiah 55:7 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.
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.
Jeremiah 32:18
You show faithful love to thousands but lay the fathers’ sins on their sons’ laps after them, great and mighty God whose name is Yahweh of Hosts,
Romans 5:20
The law came along to multiply the trespass. But where sin multiplied, grace multiplied even more
Ephesians 1:7
We have redemption in Him through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace
Slow
Joel 2:13 Tear your hearts,
not just your clothes,
and return to the Lord your God.
For He is gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger, rich in faithful love,
and He relents from sending disaster.
not just your clothes,
and return to the Lord your God.
For He is gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger, rich in faithful love,
and He relents from sending disaster.
Jonah 4:2
He prayed to the Lord: “Please, Lord, isn’t this what I said while I was still in my own country? That’s why I fled toward Tarshish in the first place. I knew that You are a merciful and compassionate God, slow to become angry, rich in faithful love, and One who relents from sending disaster.
Nahum 1:3 The Lord is slow to anger but great in power;
the Lord will never leave the guilty unpunished.
His path is in the whirlwind and storm,
and clouds are the dust beneath His feet.
the Lord will never leave the guilty unpunished.
His path is in the whirlwind and storm,
and clouds are the dust beneath His feet.
General references
Lamentations 3:31
כ KafFor the Lord
will not reject us forever.
will not reject us forever.