Psalm 145:8

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Summary

Psalm 145:8

The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.

Lord is gracious

General references

Numbers 21:8

Bible References

Lord is gracious

For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive,
And abundant in lovingkindness to all who call upon You.

For the Lord is good;

His lovingkindness is everlasting

And His faithfulness to all generations.

The Lord is compassionate and gracious,

Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness.

Gracious is the Lord, and righteous;

Yes, our God is compassionate.

Then the Lord passed by in front of him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth;

‘The Lord is slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generations.’

To the Lord our God belong compassion and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against Him;

He prayed to the Lord and said, “Please Lord, was not this what I said while I was still in my own country? Therefore in order to forestall this I fled to Tarshish, for I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, and one who relents concerning calamity.

Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity
And passes over the rebellious act of the remnant of His possession?
He does not retain His anger forever,
Because He delights in unchanging love.

The Law came in so that the transgression would increase; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,

to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.

But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,

General references

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard; and it shall come about, that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, he will live.”