Numbers 14:18

New American Bible - revised edition

‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in kindness, forgiving iniquity and rebellion; yet certainly not declaring the guilty guiltless, but punishing children to the third and fourth generation for their parents’ iniquity.’

Cross References

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.

Job 21:19

“God is storing up the man’s misery for his children”?— let him requite the man himself so that he knows it!

Psalm 103:8

Merciful and gracious is the Lord, slow to anger, abounding in mercy.

Psalm 108:4

I will praise you among the peoples, Lord; I will chant your praise among the nations.

Psalm 109:14

May his fathers’ guilt be mentioned to the Lord; his mother’s sin not rooted out.

Psalm 145:8

The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in mercy.

Psalm 78:38

But God being compassionate forgave their sin; he did not utterly destroy them. Time and again he turned back his anger, unwilling to unleash all his rage.

Psalm 86:15

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

Exodus 20:5

you shall not bow down before them or serve them. For I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, inflicting punishment for their ancestors’ wickedness on the children of those who hate me, down to the third and fourth generation;

Exodus 20:6

but showing love down to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Jeremiah 23:2

Therefore, thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, against the shepherds who shepherd my people: You have scattered my sheep and driven them away. You have not cared for them, but I will take care to punish your evil deeds.

Jeremiah 32:18

You continue your kindness through a thousand generations; but you repay the ancestors’ guilt upon their children who follow them. Great and mighty God, whose name is Lord of hosts,

Lamentations 5:7

Our ancestors, who sinned, are no more; but now we bear their guilt.

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 7:18

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,

Numbers 14:17

Now then, may my Lord’s forbearance be great, even as you have said,

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.

Romans 5:21

so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through justification for eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Deuteronomy 5:10

but showing love down to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Deuteronomy 5:9

you shall not bow down before them or serve them. For I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, bringing punishment for their parents’ wickedness on the children of those who hate me, down to the third and fourth generation,

Deuteronomy 7:10

but who repays with destruction those who hate him; he does not delay with those who hate him, but makes them pay for it.

Deuteronomy 7:9

Know, then, that the Lord, your God, is God: the faithful God who keeps covenant mercy to the thousandth generation toward those who love him and keep his commandments,