Micah 7:18

New American Bible - revised edition

Who is a God like you, who removes guilt and pardons sin for the remnant of his inheritance; Who does not persist in anger forever, but instead delights in mercy,

Cross References

Genesis 4:7

If you act rightly, you will be accepted; but if not, sin lies in wait at the door: its urge is for you, yet you can rule over it.

1 Kings 8:23

he said, “Lord, God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven above or on earth below; you keep covenant and love toward your servants who walk before you with their whole heart,

2 Chronicles 30:9

If you return to the Lord, your kinfolk and your children will find mercy with their captors and return to this land. The Lord, your God, is gracious and merciful and he will not turn away his face from you if you return to him.”

2 Chronicles 6:21

Listen to the petition of your servant and of your people Israel which they offer toward this place. Listen, from the place of your enthronement, heaven, and listen and forgive.

Nehemiah 9:17

They refused to obey and no longer remembered the wonders you had worked for them. They were obdurate and appointed a leader in order to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a forgiving God, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and rich in mercy; you did not forsake them.

Psalm 103:13

As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him.

Psalm 130:4

But with you is forgiveness and so you are revered.

Psalm 35:10

My very bones shall say, “O Lord, who is like you, Who rescue the afflicted from the powerful, the afflicted and needy from the despoiler?”

Psalm 65:3

you who hear our prayers. To you all flesh must come

Psalm 65:4

with its burden of wicked deeds. We are overcome by our sins; only you can pardon them.

Psalm 71:19

and justice, God, to the highest heaven. You have done great things; O God, who is your equal?

Psalm 86:15

But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in mercy and truth.

Psalm 86:5

Lord, you are good and forgiving, most merciful to all who call on you.

Psalm 89:6

The heavens praise your marvels, Lord, your loyalty in the assembly of the holy ones.

Psalm 89:8

A God dreaded in the council of the holy ones, greater and more awesome than all those around him!

Exodus 15:11

Who is like you among the gods, O Lord? Who is like you, magnificent among the holy ones? Awe-inspiring in deeds of renown, worker of wonders,

Exodus 34:9

Then he said, “If I find favor with you, Lord, please, Lord, come along in our company. This is indeed a stiff-necked people; yet pardon our wickedness and sins, and claim us as your own.” Religious Laws.

Isaiah 1:18

Come now, let us set things right, says the Lord: Though your sins be like scarlet, they may become white as snow; Though they be red like crimson, they may become white as wool.

Isaiah 33:24

No one who dwells there will say, “I am sick”; the people who live there will be forgiven their guilt.

Isaiah 38:17

Peace in place of bitterness! You have preserved my life from the pit of destruction; Behind your back you cast all my sins.

Isaiah 40:18

To whom can you liken God? With what likeness can you confront him?

Isaiah 40:25

To whom can you liken me as an equal? says the Holy One.

Isaiah 43:25

It is I, I, who wipe out, for my own sake, your offenses; your sins I remember no more.

Isaiah 44:22

I have brushed away your offenses like a cloud, your sins like a mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you.

Isaiah 55:7

Let the wicked forsake their way, and sinners their thoughts; Let them turn to the Lord to find mercy; to our God, who is generous in forgiving.

Isaiah 57:10

Though worn out with the length of your journey, you never said, “It is hopeless”; You found your strength revived, and so you did not weaken.

Isaiah 57:16

For I will not accuse forever, nor always be angry; For without me their spirit fails, the life breath that I have given.

Isaiah 62:5

For as a young man marries a virgin, your Builder shall marry you; And as a bridegroom rejoices in his bride so shall your God rejoice in you.

Isaiah 64:9

Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become wilderness, Jerusalem desolation!

Isaiah 65:19

I will rejoice in Jerusalem and exult in my people. No longer shall the sound of weeping be heard there, or the sound of crying;

Jeremiah 3:12

Go, proclaim these words toward the north, and say: Return, rebel Israel—oracle of the Lord— I will not remain angry with you; For I am merciful, oracle of the Lord, I will not keep my anger forever.

Jeremiah 3:5

Will he keep his wrath forever, will he hold his grudge to the end?” This is what you say; yet you do all the evil you can. Judah and Israel.

Jeremiah 31:20

Is Ephraim not my favored son, the child in whom I delight? Even though I threaten him, I must still remember him! My heart stirs for him, I must show him compassion!—oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 31:34

They will no longer teach their friends and relatives, “Know the Lord!” Everyone, from least to greatest, shall know me—oracle of the Lord—for I will forgive their iniquity and no longer remember their sin.

Jeremiah 32:41

I will take delight in doing good to them: I will plant them firmly in this land, with all my heart and soul.

Jeremiah 33:8

I will purify them of all the guilt they incurred by sinning against me; I will forgive all their offenses by which they sinned and rebelled against me.

Jeremiah 38:8

and Ebed-melech went there from the house of the king and said to him,

Jeremiah 50:20

In those days, at that time—oracle of the Lord: The guilt of Israel may be sought, but it no longer exists, the sin of Judah, but it can no longer be found; for I will forgive the remnant I preserve.

Jeremiah 9:24

See, days are coming—oracle of the Lord—when I will demand an account of all those circumcised in the foreskin:

Ezekiel 18:23

Do I find pleasure in the death of the wicked—oracle of the Lord God? Do I not rejoice when they turn from their evil way and live?

Ezekiel 33:11

Answer them: As I live—oracle of the Lord God—I swear I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! Why should you die, house of Israel?

Ezekiel 33:16

None of the sins they committed shall be remembered against them. If they do what is right and just, they shall surely live.

Daniel 9:9

But to the Lord, our God, belong compassion and forgiveness, though we rebelled against him

Hosea 14:2

Return, Israel, to the Lord, your God; you have stumbled because of your iniquity.

Hosea 14:5

I will heal their apostasy, I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from them.

Amos 1:11

Thus says the Lord: For three crimes of Edom, and now four— I will not take it back— Because he pursued his brother with the sword, suppressing all pity, Persisting in his anger, his wrath raging without end,

Amos 7:8

The Lord God asked me, “What do you see, Amos?” And I answered, “A plummet.” Then the Lord said: See, I am laying the plummet in the midst of my people Israel; I will forgive them no longer.

Amos 8:2

He asked, “What do you see, Amos?” And I answered, “A basket of end-of-summer fruit.” And the Lord said to me: The end has come for my people Israel; I will forgive them no longer.

Jonah 4:2

He prayed to the Lord, “O Lord, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I fled at first toward Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger, abounding in kindness, repenting of punishment.

Micah 2:12

I will gather you, Jacob, each and every one, I will assemble all the remnant of Israel; I will group them like a flock in the fold, like a herd in its pasture; the noise of the people will resound.

Micah 4:7

I will make of the lame a remnant, and of the weak a strong nation; The Lord shall be king over them on Mount Zion, from now on and forever.

Micah 5:3

He shall take his place as shepherd by the strength of the Lord, by the majestic name of the Lord, his God; And they shall dwell securely, for now his greatness shall reach to the ends of the earth:

Micah 7:14

Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage, That lives apart in a woodland, in the midst of an orchard. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old;

Zephaniah 3:17

The Lord, your God, is in your midst, a mighty savior, Who will rejoice over you with gladness, and renew you in his love, Who will sing joyfully because of you,

Numbers 23:21

Misfortune I do not see in Jacob, nor do I see misery in Israel. The Lord, their God, is with them; among them is the war-cry of their King.

Luke 15:32

But now we must celebrate and rejoice, because your brother was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been found.’”

Luke 24:47

and that repentance, for the forgiveness of sins, would be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

Romans 11:4

But what is God’s response to him? “I have left for myself seven thousand men who have not knelt to Baal.”

Deuteronomy 33:26

There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens in his power, who rides the clouds in his majesty;

James 2:13

For the judgment is merciless to one who has not shown mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment. Faith and Works.

Judges 10:16

And they cast out the foreign gods from their midst and served the Lord, so that he grieved over the misery of Israel.