Joe 2:13, Mic 7:18, Rom 5:20-21, Eph 1:7, 2:4-7 | ESV | STEP | and rend your hearts and not your garments . Return to the Lord your God , for he is gracious and merciful , slow to anger , and abounding in steadfast love ; and he relents over disaster .

Joel 2:13

13 and ^arend your hearts and not ^byour garments.”
Return to the Lord your God,
^cfor he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love;
^dand he relents over disaster.

Micah 7:18

God’s Steadfast Love and Compassion

18 ^eWho is a God like you, ^fpardoning iniquity
and passing over transgression
^gfor the remnant of his inheritance?
^hHe does not retain his anger forever,
because he delights in steadfast love.

Romans 5:20-21

20 Now ⁱthe law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, ^jgrace abounded all the more, 21 so that, ^kas sin reigned in death, ^lgrace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Ephesians 1:7

7 ^mIn him we have ⁿredemption ^othrough his blood, ^pthe forgiveness of our trespasses, ^qaccording to the riches of his grace,

Ephesians 2:4-7

4 But ^{▼▼Or And} God, being ^srich in mercy, ^tbecause of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even ^uwhen we were dead in our trespasses, ^vmade us alive together with Christ— ^wby grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and ^xseated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable ^yriches of his grace in ^zkindness toward us in Christ Jesus.