Remember your mercy, O Lord, and your steadfast love, for they have been from of old.
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children's children,
And his mercy is for those who fear him from generation to generation.
because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the sunrise shall visit us from on high
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love. He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea. You will show faithfulness to Jacob and steadfast love to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who sing, as they bring thank offerings to the house of the Lord: “‘Give thanks to the Lord of hosts, for the Lord is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!’ For I will restore the fortunes of the land as at first, says the Lord.
Look down from heaven and see, from your holy and beautiful habitation. Where are your zeal and your might? The stirring of your inner parts and your compassion are held back from me.
He has remembered his steadfast love and faithfulness to the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?
For God is my witness, how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus.
that we should be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us; to show the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant,
He has helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy,
Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he my darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I do remember him still. Therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, declares the Lord.
let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
and brought Israel out from among them, for his steadfast love endures forever; with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, for his steadfast love endures forever; to him who divided the Red Sea in two, for his steadfast love endures forever; and made Israel pass through the midst of it, for his steadfast love endures forever; but overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Let your mercy come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.
Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!
For their sake he remembered his covenant, and relented according to the abundance of his steadfast love.
Praise the Lord! Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!
who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,
“Will the Lord spurn forever, and never again be favorable? Has his steadfast love forever ceased? Are his promises at an end for all time? Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he in anger shut up his compassion?” Selah Then I said, “I will appeal to this, to the years of the right hand of the Most High.” I will remember the deeds of the Lord; yes, I will remember your wonders of old.
Answer me, O Lord, for your steadfast love is good; according to your abundant mercy, turn to me.
But as for me, my prayer is to you, O Lord. At an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness.
As for you, O Lord, you will not restrain your mercy from me; your steadfast love and your faithfulness will ever preserve me!
you in your great mercies did not forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud to lead them in the way did not depart from them by day, nor the pillar of fire by night to light for them the way by which they should go.
O Lord God, do not turn away the face of your anointed one! Remember your steadfast love for David your servant.”
The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,
“You have led in your steadfast love the people whom you have redeemed; you have guided them by your strength to your holy abode.
And Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Lord who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your kindred, that I may do you good,’
and said, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his steadfast love and his faithfulness toward my master. As for me, the Lord has led me in the way to the house of my master's kinsmen.”
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy,
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