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Psalm 145:8
The LORD is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.
6Men will speak of the might of your awesome acts. I will declare your greatness.
7They will utter the memory of your great goodness, and will sing of your righteousness.
8The LORD is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.
9The LORD is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.
10All your works will give thanks to you, LORD. Your saints will extol you.
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The words “slow to anger” can challenge the expectation that God is quick to condemn, while “great loving kindness” names the breadth of his love.
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Exodus 34:6The LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, “The LORD! The LORD, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,The psalm repeats the mercy, grace, patience, and loving kindness that the LORD proclaims about himself in Exodus.
Psalm 103:8The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.Both psalms describe the LORD as merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and rich in loving kindness.
Ephesians 2:4But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,Both passages name God's mercy and the greatness of his love.
Numbers 14:18‘The LORD is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the …Both describe the LORD as slow to anger and abundant in loving kindness; Numbers also speaks of forgiveness and judgment.
Jonah 4:2He prayed to the LORD, and said, “Please, LORD, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew …Jonah names the same grace, mercy, patience, and loving kindness, explaining that his knowledge of God's character prompted his flight.
Psalm 86:5For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.Both psalms speak of abundant loving kindness; Psalm 86 also names God's readiness to forgive those who call on him.
Psalm 86:15But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.Both passages use the same descriptions of God: merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.
Psalm 116:5The LORD is gracious and righteous. Yes, our God is merciful.Both psalms declare that the LORD is gracious and merciful; Psalm 116 also names his righteousness.
Romans 5:20–21The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly,Psalm 145 names God's gracious character; Romans describes grace abounding where sin abounded.
Micah 7:18–20Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he …Both passages connect God's loving kindness with restraint in anger; Micah also speaks of his delight in that kindness.
Nahum 1:3The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. The LORD has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and …Both declare that the LORD is slow to anger; Nahum also states that he will punish the guilty.
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If mercy seems hard to trust, these words may take time to absorb. Their claim about God remains: he is gracious, merciful, and slow to anger.
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