Genesis 43:10
If we had not delayed, we could have come and gone twice by now.”
BSB
ASV
for except we had lingered, surely we had now returned a second time.
KJV
For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time.
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Genesis 19:16But when Lot hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and his two daughters. And they led them safely out of the city, because of the LORD’s compassion for…
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For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.
For You, O Lord, are kind and forgiving, rich in loving devotion to all who call on You.
Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?