Without delay I hurry to obey your commands.

People cannot come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them to me; and I will raise them to life on the last day.

The LORD then passed in front of him and called out, "I, the LORD, am a God who is full of compassion and pity, who is not easily angered and who shows great love and faithfulness.

'I, the LORD, am not easily angered, and I show great love and faithfulness and forgive sin and rebellion. Yet I will not fail to punish children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation for the sins of their parents.'

He is a merciful God. He will not abandon you or destroy you, and he will not forget the covenant that he himself made with your ancestors.

Give thanks to the LORD, because he is good; his love is eternal.

Would you like to enjoy life? Do you want long life and happiness?

You are good to us and forgiving, full of constant love for all who pray to you.

But you, O Lord, are a merciful and loving God, always patient, always kind and faithful.

The LORD is merciful and loving, slow to become angry and full of constant love.

He does not punish us as we deserve or repay us according to our sins and wrongs.

As a father is kind to his children, so the LORD is kind to those who honor him.

Praise the LORD! Give thanks to the LORD, because he is good; his love is eternal.

But he saved them, as he had promised, in order to show his great power.

"Give thanks to the LORD, because he is good; his love is eternal!"

The LORD does not let us forget his wonderful actions; he is kind and merciful.

Give thanks to the LORD, because he is good, and his love is eternal.

Give thanks to the LORD, because he is good; his love is eternal.

from all their suffering. It was not an angel, but the LORD himself who saved them. In his love and compassion he rescued them. He had always taken care of them in the past,

The LORD's unfailing love and mercy still continue,

There is no other god like you, O LORD; you forgive the sins of your people who have survived. You do not stay angry forever, but you take pleasure in showing us your constant love.

You will be merciful to us once again. You will trample our sins underfoot and send them to the bottom of the sea!

No! Love your enemies and do good to them; lend and expect nothing back. You will then have a great reward, and you will be children of the Most High God. For he is good to the ungrateful and the wicked.

Be merciful just as your Father is merciful.

But the tax collector stood at a distance and would not even raise his face to heaven, but beat on his breast and said, 'God, have pity on me, a sinner!'

For he said to Moses, "I will have mercy on anyone I wish; I will take pity on anyone I wish."

So then, everything depends, not on what we humans want or do, but only on God's mercy.

So then, God has mercy on anyone he wishes, and he makes stubborn anyone he wishes.

Let us give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the merciful Father, the God from whom all help comes!

But God's mercy is so abundant, and his love for us is so great,

that while we were spiritually dead in our disobedience he brought us to life with Christ. It is by God's grace that you have been saved.

he saved us. It was not because of any good deeds that we ourselves had done, but because of his own mercy that he saved us, through the Holy Spirit, who gives us new birth and new life by washing us.

Joshua then told the two men who had served as spies, "Go into the prostitute's house, and bring her and her family out, as you promised her."

And so the Lord knows how to rescue godly people from their trials and how to keep the wicked under punishment for the Day of Judgment,