Psalms 103:8
The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion.
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ASV
Jehovah is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness.
KJV
The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
Grace and slowness to anger as core divine attributes, not exceptions to them
The Lord is merciful and gracious,.... So he made himself known to Moses, Exo 34:6, and so David found him to be, and therefore calls upon his soul to bless his name.
The Lord is merciful and gracious. Those with whom he deals are sinners. However much he favours them they are guilty and need mercy at his hands, nor is he slow to compassionate their lost estate, or reluctant by his grace to lift them out of it. Mercy pardons sin, grace bestows favour: in both the Lord abounds. This is that way of his which he made known to Moses (Ex 34:6), and in that way he will abide as long as the age of grace shall last, and men are yet in this life.
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Joel 2:13So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.
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Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,
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But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.
The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit,…
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Psalms 145:8The LORD is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion.
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For You, O Lord, are kind and forgiving, rich in loving devotion to all who call on You.
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‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon…
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Psalms 86:15But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.
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The LORD is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion.
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But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
