Micah 7:18

Bible in Basic English 1965

Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy.

Cross References

Genesis 4:7

If you do well, will you not have honour? and if you do wrong, sin is waiting at the door, desiring to have you, but do not let it be your master.

1 Kings 8:23

Said, O Lord, the God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on the earth; keeping faith and mercy unchanging for your servants, while they go in your ways with all their hearts.

2 Chronicles 30:9

For if you come back to the Lord, those who took away your brothers and your children will have pity on them, and let them come back to this land: for the Lord your God is full of grace and mercy, and his face will not be turned away from you if you come back to him.

2 Chronicles 6:21

And give ear to the prayers of your servant and of your people Israel, when they make their prayers, turning to this place; give ear from heaven your living-place; and hearing have mercy.

Nehemiah 9:17

And would not do them, and gave no thought to the wonders you had done among them; but made their necks stiff, and turning away from you, made a captain over themselves to take them back to their prison in Egypt: but you are a God of forgiveness, full of grace and pity, slow to wrath and great in mercy, and you did not give them up.

Psalm 103:13

As a father has pity on his children, so the Lord has pity on his worshippers.

Psalm 130:4

But there is forgiveness with you, so that you may be feared.

Psalm 35:10

All my bones will say, Lord, who is like you? The saviour of the poor man from the hands of the strong, of him who is poor and in need from him who takes his goods.

Psalm 65:3

Evils have overcome us: but as for our sins, you will take them away.

Psalm 65:4

Happy is the man of your selection, to whom you give a resting-place in your house; we will be full of the good things out of your holy place.

Psalm 71:19

Your righteousness, O God, is very high; you have done great things; O God, who is like you?

Psalm 86:15

But you, O Lord, are a God full of pity and forgiveness, slow to get angry, great in mercy and wisdom.

Psalm 86:5

You are good, O Lord, and full of forgiveness; your mercy is great to all who make their cry to you.

Psalm 89:6

For who is there in the heavens in comparison with the Lord? who is like the Lord among the sons of the gods?

Psalm 89:8

O Lord God of armies, who is strong like you, O Jah? and your unchanging faith is round about you.

Exodus 15:11

Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? who is like you, in holy glory, to be praised with fear, doing wonders?

Exodus 34:9

And he said, If now I have grace in your eyes, let the Lord go among us, for this is a stiff-necked people, and give us forgiveness for our wrongdoing and our sin, and take us for your heritage.

Isaiah 1:18

Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool?

Isaiah 33:24

And the men of Zion will not say, I am ill: for its people will have forgiveness for their sin.

Isaiah 38:17

See, in place of peace my soul had bitter sorrow. but you have kept back my soul from the underworld; for you have put all my sins out of your memory.

Isaiah 40:18

Whom then is God like, in your opinion? or what will you put forward as a comparison with him?

Isaiah 40:25

Who then seems to you to be my equal? says the Holy One.

Isaiah 43:25

I, even I, am he who takes away your sins; and I will no longer keep your evil doings in mind.

Isaiah 44:22

I have put your evil doings out of my mind like a thick cloud, and your sins like a mist: come back to me; for I have taken up your cause.

Isaiah 55:7

Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.

Isaiah 57:10

You were tired with your long journeys; but you did not say, There is no hope: you got new strength, and so you were not feeble.

Isaiah 57:16

For I will not give punishment for ever, or be angry without end: for from me breath goes out; and I it was who made the souls.

Isaiah 62:5

For as a young man takes a virgin for his wife, so will your maker be married to you: and as a husband has joy in his bride, so will the Lord your God be glad over you.

Isaiah 64:9

Be not very angry, O Lord, and do not keep our sins in mind for ever: give ear to our prayer, for we are all your people.

Isaiah 65:19

And I will be glad over Jerusalem, and have joy in my people: and the voice of weeping will no longer be sounding in her, or the voice of grief.

Jeremiah 3:12

Go, and give out these words to the north, and say, Come back, O Israel, though you have been turned away from me, says the Lord; my face will not be against you in wrath: for I am full of mercy, says the Lord, I will not be angry for ever.

Jeremiah 3:5

Will he be angry for ever? will he keep his wrath to the end? These things you have said, and have done evil and have had your way.

Jeremiah 31:20

Is Ephraim my dear son? is he the child of my delight? for whenever I say things against him, I still keep him in my memory: so my heart is troubled for him; I will certainly have mercy on him, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 31:34

And no longer will they be teaching every man his neighbour and every man his brother, saying, Get knowledge of the Lord: for they will all have knowledge of me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord: for they will have my forgiveness for their evil-doing, and their sin will go from my memory for ever.

Jeremiah 32:41

And truly, I will take pleasure in doing them good, and all my heart and soul will be given to planting them in this land in good faith.

Jeremiah 33:8

And I will make them clean from all their sin, with which they have been sinning against me; I will have forgiveness for all their sins, with which they have been sinning against me, and with which they have done evil against me.

Jeremiah 38:8

And Ebed-melech went out from the king's house and said to the king,

Jeremiah 50:20

In those days and in that time, says the Lord, when the evil-doing of Israel is looked for, there will be nothing; and in Judah no sins will be seen: for I will have forgiveness for those whom I will keep safe.

Jeremiah 9:24

But if any man has pride, let it be in this, that he has the wisdom to have knowledge of me, that I am the Lord, working mercy, giving true decisions, and doing righteousness in the earth: for in these things I have delight, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 18:23

Have I any pleasure in the death of the evil-doer? says the Lord: am I not pleased if he is turned from his way so that he may have life?

Ezekiel 33:11

Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, I have no pleasure in the death of the evil-doer; it is more pleasing to me if he is turned from his way and has life: be turned, be turned from your evil ways; why are you looking for death, O children of Israel?

Ezekiel 33:16

Not one of the sins which he has done will be kept in mind against him: he has done what is ordered and right, life will certainly be his.

Daniel 9:9

With the Lord our God are mercies and forgiveness, for we have gone against him;

Hosea 14:2

Take with you words, and come back to the Lord; say to him, Let there be forgiveness for all wrongdoing, so that we may take what is good, and give in payment the fruit of our lips.

Hosea 14:5

I will be as the dew to Israel; he will put out flowers like a lily, and send out his roots like Lebanon.

Joel 2:32

And it will be that whoever makes his prayer to the name of the Lord will be kept safe: for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem some will be kept safe, as the Lord has said, and will be among the small band marked out by the Lord.

Amos 1:11

These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Edom, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because his sword was turned against his brother, without pity, and his wrath was burning at all times, and he was angry for ever.

Amos 7:8

And the Lord said to me, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A weighted line. Then the Lord said, See, I will let down a weighted line among my people Israel; never again will my eyes be shut to their sin:

Amos 8:2

And he said, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then the Lord said to me, The end has come to my people Israel; never again will my eyes be shut to their sin.

Jonah 4:2

And he made prayer to the Lord and said, O Lord, is this not what I said when I was still in my country? This is why I took care to go in flight to Tarshish: for I was certain that you were a loving God, full of pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, and ready to be turned from your purpose of evil.

Micah 2:12

I will certainly make all of you, O Jacob, come together; I will get together the rest of Israel; I will put them together like the sheep in their circle: like a flock in their green field; they will be full of the noise of men.

Micah 4:7

And I will make her whose steps were uncertain a small band, and her who was feeble a strong nation: and the Lord will be their King in Mount Zion from now and for ever.

Micah 5:3

For this cause he will give them up till the time when she who is with child has given birth: then the rest of his brothers will come back to the children of Israel.

Micah 7:14

Keep your people safe with your rod, the flock of your heritage, living by themselves in the woods in the middle of Carmel: let them get their food in Bashan and Gilead as in the past.

Zephaniah 3:17

The Lord your God is among you, as a strong saviour: he will be glad over you with joy, he will make his love new again, he will make a song of joy over you as in the time of a holy feast.

Numbers 23:21

He has seen no evil in Jacob or wrongdoing in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the glad cry of a king is among them.

Luke 15:32

But it was right to be glad and to have a feast; for this your brother, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away and has come back.

Luke 24:47

And that teaching about a change of heart and forgiveness of sins is to be given to Jerusalem first and to all nations in his name.

Romans 11:4

But what answer does God make to him? I have still seven thousand men whose knees have not been bent to Baal.

Deuteronomy 33:26

No other is like the God of Jeshurun, coming on the heavens to your help, and letting his glory be seen in the skies.

James 2:13

For the man who has had no mercy will be judged without mercy, but mercy takes pride in overcoming judging.

Judges 10:16

So they put away the strange gods from among them, and became the Lord's servants; and his soul was angry because of the sorrows of Israel.