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Key Verse
Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness! Lamentations 3:22-23 BSB
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- Through the LORD’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not. Lamentations 3:22 NKJV
GOD shows Mercy
- The LORD takes pleasure in those who fear Him, In those who hope in His mercy. Psalm 147:11 NKJV
- If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9 NKJV
- the LORD longs to be gracious to you, And therefore He waits on high to have compassion on you. Isaiah 30:18 NASB
- So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the Lord. And His soul could no longer endure the misery of Israel. Judges 10:16 NKJV
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- So they removed the foreign gods from among them and served the Lord; and He could bear the misery of Israel no longer. Judges 10:16 AMP
See examples
- Egyptians: Therefore send now and gather your livestock and all that you have in the field, for the hail shall come down on every man and every animal which is found in the field and is not brought home; and they shall die.” ’ ” Exodus 9:19 NKJV
- Ahab: (There was none who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the Lord like Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife incited. He acted very abominably in going after idols, as the Amorites had done, whom the Lord cast out before the people of Israel.) And when Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his flesh and fasted and lay in sackcloth and went about dejectedly. And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, “Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring the disaster in his days; but in his son’s days I will bring the disaster upon his house.” 1 Kings 21:25-29 ESV
- Cain: Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear. Behold, this day You have driven me from the face of the earth, and from Your face I will be hidden; I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.” “Not so!” replied the LORD. “If anyone slays Cain, then Cain will be avenged sevenfold.” And the LORD placed a mark on Cain, so that no one who found him would kill him. Genesis 4:13-15 BSB
GOD would like us to show Mercy
- Then his master called him and said to him, ‘You wicked and contemptible slave, I forgave all that [great] debt of yours because you begged me. Should you not have had mercy on your fellow slave [who owed you little by comparison], as I had mercy on you?’ Matthew 18:32-33 AMP
- And have mercy on some, who are doubting; save others, snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy but with fear, loathing even the clothing spotted and polluted by their shameless immoral freedom. Jude 22-23 AMP