Exodus 34:6-7

6The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, a“The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and bgracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast clove and faithfulness, 7 dkeeping steadfast love for thousands,
Or to the thousandth generation
fforgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but gwho will by no means clear the guilty, hvisiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”

Psalms 103:8

8The Lord is imerciful and gracious,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

Psalms 145:8

8 The Lord is jgracious and merciful,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

Jonah 4:2

2And he prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? kThat is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a lgracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and mrelenting from disaster.

Micah 7:18

God’s Steadfast Love and Compassion

18 nWho is a God like you, opardoning iniquity
and passing over transgression
pfor the remnant of his inheritance?
qHe does not retain his anger forever,
because he delights in steadfast love.

Nahum 1:2-3

God’s Wrath Against Nineveh

2 rThe Lord is a jealous and avenging God;
the Lord is avenging and wrathful;
sthe Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries
and tkeeps wrath for his enemies.
3 uThe Lord is slow to anger and vgreat in power,
and wthe Lord will by no means clear the guilty.
xHis way is in whirlwind and storm,
and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

Romans 3:24-26

24 yand are justified zby his grace as a gift, aathrough the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25whom God abput forward as aca propitiation adby his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in aehis divine forbearance he had passed over afformer sins. 26It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

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