Numbers 14:18

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the parents upon the children to the third and the fourth generation.’

Cross References

Psalm 145:8

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

Jonah 4:2

He prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord! Is not this what I said while I was still in my own country? That is why I fled to Tarshish at the beginning, for I knew that you are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from punishment.

Exodus 20:5

You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me

Psalm 103:8

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

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over the transgression of the remnant of his possession? He does not retain his anger forever because he delights in showing steadfast love.

Deuteronomy 5:9

You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents to the third and fourth generation of those who reject me

Jeremiah 23:2

Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who shepherd my people: It is you who have scattered my flock and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them. So I will attend to you for your evil doings, says the Lord.

Romans 5:21

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

Exodus 20:6

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

Numbers 14:17

And now, therefore, let the power of the Lord be great in the way that you promised when you spoke, saying,

Numbers 23:21

He has not beheld misfortune in Jacob, nor has he seen trouble in Israel. The Lord their God is with them, acclaimed as a king among them.

Deuteronomy 5:10

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

Deuteronomy 7:9

Know, therefore, that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who maintains covenant loyalty with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

Deuteronomy 7:10

and who repays in their own person those who reject him. He does not delay but repays in their own person those who reject him.

Nehemiah 9:17

they refused to obey and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and you did not forsake them.

Psalm 78:38

Yet he, being compassionate, forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them; often he restrained his anger and did not stir up all his wrath.

Psalm 108:4

For your steadfast love is higher than the heavens, and your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

Psalm 109:14

May the iniquity of his father be remembered before the Lord, and do not let the sin of his mother be blotted out.

Job 21:19

You say, ‘God stores up their iniquity for their children.’ Let it be paid back to them, so that they may know it.

Psalm 86:15

But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

Jeremiah 32:18

You show steadfast love to the thousandth generation but repay the guilt of parents into the laps of their children after them, O great and mighty God whose name is the Lord of hosts,

Lamentations 5:7

Our ancestors sinned; they are no more, and we bear their iniquities.