Micah 7:18

God's Steadfast Love and Compassion

18 b Who is a God like You,
c Pardoning iniquity
And passing over the transgression of d the remnant of His heritage?
e He does not retain His anger forever,
Because He delights in f mercy. 1

  1. Cross References
    Exodus 15:11
    Who is like You, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like You, glorious in holiness, Fearful in praises, doing wonders?
  2. Cross References
    Exodus 34:6
    And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth.
    Exodus 34:7
    "keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children to the third and the fourth generation."
    Exodus 34:9
    Then he said, "If now I have found grace in Your sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray, go among us, even though we are a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as Your inheritance.
    Isaiah 43:25
    I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake; And I will not remember your sins.
    Jeremiah 50:20
    In those days and in that time," says the LORD, "The iniquity of Israel shall be sought, but there shall be none; And the sins of Judah, but they shall not be found; For I will pardon those whom I preserve.
  3. Cross References
    Micah 4:7
    I will make the lame a remnant, And the outcast a strong nation; So the LORD will reign over them in Mount Zion From now on, even forever.
  4. Cross References
    Psalms 103:8
    The LORD is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abounding in mercy.
    Psalms 103:9
    He will not always strive with us, Nor will He keep His anger forever.
    Psalms 103:13
    As a father pities his children, So the LORD pities those who fear Him.
    Isaiah 57:16
    For I will not contend forever, Nor will I always be angry; For the spirit would fail before Me, And the souls which I have made.
  5. Cross References
    Ezekiel 33:11
    "Say to them: ' As I live,' says the Lord GOD, 'I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?'
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