Numbers 14:18

Holman Christian Standard Bible

The Lord is slow to anger and rich in faithful love, forgiving wrongdoing and rebellion. But He will not leave the guilty unpunished, bringing the consequences of the fathers’ wrongdoing on the children to the third and fourth generation.

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:17

They refused to listen and did not remember Your wonders You performed among them. They became stiff-necked and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But You are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in faithful love, and You did not abandon them.

Job 21:19

God reserves a person’s punishment for his children. Let God repay the person himself, so that he may know it.

Psalm 103:8

The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and rich in faithful love.

Psalm 108:4

For Your faithful love is higher than the heavens, and Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

Psalm 109:14

Let his ancestors’ guilt be remembered before the Lord, and do not let his mother’s sin be blotted out.

Psalm 145:8

The Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and great in faithful love.

Psalm 78:38

Yet He was compassionate; He atoned for their guilt and did not destroy them. He often turned His anger aside and did not unleash all His wrath.

Psalm 86:15

But You, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and rich in faithful love and truth.

Exodus 20:5

You must not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the fathers’ sin, to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Exodus 20:6

but showing faithful love to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commands.

Jeremiah 23:2

“Therefore, this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says about the shepherds who shepherd My people: You have scattered My flock, banished them, and have not attended to them. I will attend to you because of your evil acts” — this is the Lord’s declaration.

Jeremiah 32:18

You show faithful love to thousands but lay the fathers’ sins on their sons’ laps after them, great and mighty God whose name is Yahweh of Hosts,

Lamentations 5:7

Our fathers sinned; they no longer exist, but we bear their punishment.

Jonah 4:2

He prayed to the Lord: “Please, Lord, isn’t this what I said while I was still in my own country? That’s why I fled toward Tarshish in the first place. I knew that You are a merciful and compassionate God, slow to become angry, rich in faithful love, and One who relents from sending disaster.

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like You, removing iniquity and passing over rebellion for the remnant of His inheritance? He does not hold on to His anger forever, because He delights in faithful love.

Numbers 14:17

“So now, may my Lord’s power be magnified just as You have spoken:

Numbers 23:21

He considers no disaster for Jacob; He sees no trouble for Israel. The Lord their God is with them, and there is rejoicing over the King among them.

Romans 5:21

so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness, resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Deuteronomy 5:10

but showing faithful love to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commands.

Deuteronomy 5:9

You must not bow down to them or worship them, because I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the fathers’ sin to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Deuteronomy 7:10

But He directly pays back and destroys those who hate Him. He will not hesitate to directly pay back the one who hates Him.

Deuteronomy 7:9

Know that Yahweh your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His gracious covenant loyalty for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commands.