Psalms 86:5

86:5 Certainly ¹  O Lord, you are kind ²  and forgiving,

and show great faithfulness to all who cry out to you.

Psalms 86:15

86:15 But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and merciful God.

You are patient ³  and demonstrate great loyal love and faithfulness. ⁴ 

Psalms 103:8

103:8 The Lord is compassionate and merciful;

he is patient ⁵  and demonstrates great loyal love. ⁶ 

Psalms 112:4

112:4 In the darkness a light ⁷  shines for the godly,

for each one who is merciful, compassionate, and just. ⁸ 

Psalms 115:1

Psalm 115 ⁹ 

115:1 Not to us, O Lord, not to us!

But to your name bring honor, ¹⁰ 

for the sake of your loyal love and faithfulness. ¹¹ 

Psalms 145:8

145:8 The Lord is merciful and compassionate;

he is patient ¹²  and demonstrates great loyal love. ¹³ 

Exodus 34:6-7

34:6 The Lord passed by before him and proclaimed: ¹⁴  “The Lord, the Lord, ¹⁵  the compassionate and gracious ¹⁶  God, slow to anger, ¹⁷  and abounding in loyal love and faithfulness, ¹⁸  34:7 keeping loyal love for thousands, ¹⁹  forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin. But he by no means leaves the guilty unpunished, responding to the transgression ²⁰  of fathers by dealing with children and children’s children, to the third and fourth generation.”

Nehemiah 9:17

9:17 They refused to obey and did not recall your miracles that you had performed among them. Instead, they rebelled and appointed a leader to return to their bondage in Egypt. ²¹  But you are a God of forgiveness, merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and unfailing in your loyal love. ²²  You did not abandon them,

Nehemiah 9:31

9:31 However, due to your abundant mercy you did not do away with them altogether; you did not abandon them. For you are a merciful and compassionate God.

Daniel 9:9

9:9 Yet the Lord our God is compassionate and forgiving, ²³  even though we have rebelled against him.

Romans 5:20-21

5:20 Now the law came in ²⁴  so that the transgression ²⁵  may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more, 5:21 so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Ephesians 1:6-8

1:6 to the praise of the glory of his grace ²⁶  that he has freely bestowed on us in his dearly loved Son. ²⁷  1:7 In him ²⁸  we have redemption through his blood, ²⁹  the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace 1:8 that he lavished on us in all wisdom and insight.

Ephesians 2:4

2:4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,

Ephesians 2:1

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2:1 And although you were ³⁰  dead ³¹  in your transgressions and sins,

Ephesians 1:14

1:14 who is the down payment ³²  of our inheritance, until the redemption of God’s own possession, ³³  to the praise of his glory.

Titus 3:4-7

3:4 ³⁴  But “when the kindness of God our Savior and his love for mankind appeared, 3:5 he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit, 3:6 whom he poured out on us in full measure ³⁵  through Jesus Christ our Savior. 3:7 And so, ³⁶  since we have been justified by his grace, we become heirs with the confident expectation of eternal life.” ³⁷ 

[86:5]  ¹ tn Or “for.”

[86:5]  ² tn Heb “good.”

[86:15]  ³ tn Heb “slow to anger.”

[86:15]  ⁴ tn Heb “and great of loyal love and faithfulness.”

[103:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “slow to anger” (see Ps 86:15).

[103:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “and great of loyal love” (see Ps 86:15).

[112:4]  ⁷ tn In this context “light” symbolizes divine blessing in its various forms (see v. 2), including material prosperity and stability.

[112:4]  ⁸ tn Heb “merciful and compassionate and just.” The Hebrew text has three singular adjectives, which are probably substantival and in apposition to the “godly” (which is plural, however). By switching to the singular, the psalmist focuses on each individual member of the group known as the “godly.” Note how vv. 5-9, like vv. 1-2a, use the singular to describe the representative godly individual who typifies the whole group.

[115:1]  ⁹ sn Psalm 115. The psalmist affirms that Israel’s God is superior to pagan idols and urges Israel to place their confidence in him.

[115:1]  ¹⁰ tn Or “give glory.”

[115:1]  ¹¹ sn The psalmist asks the Lord to demonstrate his loyal love and faithfulness, not simply so Israel may benefit, but primarily so that the Lord will receive honor among the nations, who will recognize, contrary to their present view (see v. 2), that Israel’s God is committed to his people.

[145:8]  ¹² tn Heb “slow to anger” (see Pss 86:15; 103:8).

[145:8]  ¹³ tn Heb “and great of loyal love” (see Pss 86:15; 103:8).

[34:6]  ¹⁴ tn Here is one of the clearest examples of what it means “to call on the name of the Lord,” as that clause has been translated traditionally (וַיִּקְרָא בְשֵׁם יְהוָה, vayyiqra’ vÿshem yÿhvah). It seems more likely that it means “to make proclamation of Yahweh by name.” Yahweh came down and made a proclamation – and the next verses give the content of what he said. This cannot be prayer or praise; it is a proclamation of the nature or attributes of God (which is what his “name” means throughout the Bible). Attempts to make Moses the subject of the verb are awkward, for the verb is repeated in v. 6 with Yahweh clearly doing the proclaiming.

[34:6]  ¹⁵ sn U. Cassuto (Exodus, 439) suggests that these two names be written as a sentence: “Yahweh, He is Yahweh.” In this manner it reflects “I am that I am.” It is impossible to define his name in any other way than to make this affirmation and then show what it means.

[34:6]  ¹⁶ tn See Exod 33:19.

[34:6]  ¹⁷ sn This is literally “long of anger.” His anger prolongs itself, allowing for people to repent before punishment is inflicted.

[34:6]  ¹⁸ sn These two words (“loyal love” and “truth”) are often found together, occasionally in a hendiadys construction. If that is the interpretation here, then it means “faithful covenant love.” Even if they are left separate, they are dual elements of a single quality. The first word is God’s faithful covenant love; the second word is God’s reliability and faithfulness.

[34:7]  ¹⁹ tn That is, “for thousands of generations.”

[34:7]  ²⁰ sn As in the ten commandments (20:5-6), this expression shows that the iniquity and its punishment will continue in the family if left unchecked. This does not go on as long as the outcomes for good (thousands versus third or fourth generations), and it is limited to those who hate God.

[9:17]  ²¹ tc The present translation follows a few medieval Hebrew MSS and the LXX in reading בְּמִצְרָיִם (bÿmitsrayim, “in Egypt”; so also NAB, NASB, NRSV, TEV, NLT) rather than the MT reading בְּמִרְיָם (bÿmiryam, “in their rebellion”).

[9:17]  ²² tc The translation follows the Qere reading חֶסֶד (khesed, “loyal love”) rather than the Kethib reading וְחֶסֶד (vÿkhesed, “and loyal love”) of the MT.

[9:9]  ²³ tn Heb “to the Lord our God (belong) compassion and forgiveness.”

[5:20]  ²⁴ tn Grk “slipped in.”

[5:20]  ²⁵ tn Or “trespass.”

[1:6]  ²⁶ tn Or “to the praise of his glorious grace.” Many translations translate δόξης τῆς χάριτος αὐτοῦ (doxh" th" carito" autou, literally “of the glory of his grace”) with τῆς χάριτος as an attributed genitive (cf., e.g., NIV, NRSV, ESV). The translation above has retained a literal rendering in order to make clear the relationship of this phrase to the other two similar phrases in v. 12 and 14, which affect the way one divides the material in the passage.

[1:6]  ²⁷ tn Grk “the beloved.” The term ἠγαπημένῳ (hgaphmenw) means “beloved,” but often bears connotations of “only beloved” in an exclusive sense. “His dearly loved Son” picks up this connotation.

[1:7]  ²⁸ tn Grk “in whom” (the relative clause of v. 7 is subordinate to v. 6). The “him” refers to Christ.

[1:7]  ²⁹ sn In this context his blood, the blood of Jesus Christ, refers to the price paid for believers’ redemption, which is the sacrificial death of Christ on the cross.

[2:1]  ³⁰ tn The adverbial participle “being” (ὄντας, ontas) is taken concessively.

[2:1]  ³¹ sn Chapter 2 starts off with a participle, although you were dead, that is left dangling. The syntax in Greek for vv. 1-3 constitutes one incomplete sentence, though it seems to have been done intentionally. The dangling participle leaves the readers in suspense while they wait for the solution (in v. 4) to their spiritual dilemma.

[1:14]  ³² tn Or “first installment,” “pledge,” “deposit.”

[1:14]  ³³ tn Grk “the possession.”

[3:4]  ³⁴ tn Verses 4-7 are set as poetry in NA²⁶/NA²⁷. These verses probably constitute the referent of the expression “this saying” in v. 8.

[3:6]  ³⁵ tn Or “on us richly.”

[3:7]  ³⁶ tn This is the conclusion of a single, skillfully composed sentence in Greek encompassing Titus 3:4-7. Showing the goal of God’s merciful salvation, v. 7 begins literally, “in order that, being justified…we might become heirs…”

[3:7]  ³⁷ tn Grk “heirs according to the hope of eternal life.”