Numbers 14:18

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

‘The Lord is slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of fathers upon children, upon the third and upon 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

And he prayed to the Lord and said, “I pray thee, Lord, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and repentest of evil.

Exodus 20:5

you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate 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 thee, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger for ever because he delights in 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, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,

Jeremiah 23:2

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

Romans 5:21

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

Exodus 20:6

but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Numbers 14:17

And now, I pray thee, let the power of the Lord be great as thou has promised, 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, and the shout of a king is among them.

Deuteronomy 5:10

but showing steadfast love to thousands 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 keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

Deuteronomy 7:10

and requites to their face those who hate him, by destroying them; he will not be slack with him who hates him, he will requite him to his face.

Nehemiah 9:17

they refused to obey, and were not mindful of the wonders which thou didst perform among them; but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their bondage in Egypt. But thou art a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and didst not forsake them.

Psalm 78:38

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

Psalm 108:4

For thy steadfast love is great above the heavens, thy faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

Psalm 109:14

May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out!

Job 21:19

You say, ‘God stores up their iniquity for their sons.’ Let him recompense it to themselves, that they may know it.

Psalm 86:15

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

Jeremiah 32:18

who showest steadfast love to thousands, but dost requite the guilt of fathers to their children after them, O great and mighty God whose name is the Lord of hosts,

Lamentations 5:7

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