Ephesians 2:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,

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  • 1 Pet 1:3 : 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
  • Eph 1:7 : 7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace;
  • Eph 2:7 : 7 That in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
  • Ps 145:8 : 8 The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.
  • Ps 86:15 : 15 But You, O Lord, are a God full of compassion and gracious, slow to anger, and plentiful in mercy and truth.
  • Exod 33:19 : 19 And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before you; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.
  • Eph 3:8 : 8 To me, who am less than the least of all saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
  • Titus 3:4-7 : 4 But when the kindness and love of God our Savior toward man appeared, 5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, 6 Whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 That having been justified by His grace, we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
  • 2 Thess 2:13 : 13 But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brothers beloved of the Lord, because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
  • 1 Tim 1:14 : 14 And the grace of our Lord was exceedingly abundant with faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.
  • 2 Tim 1:9 : 9 Who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
  • 1 John 4:10-19 : 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and His love is perfected in us. 13 By this we know that we dwell in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwells in him, and he in God. 16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him. 17 In this love has been perfected among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as He is, so are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. He who fears is not made perfect in love. 19 We love Him because He first loved us.
  • Rom 9:23 : 23 And that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory,
  • Rom 10:12 : 12 For there is no difference between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him.
  • Exod 34:6-7 : 6 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in goodness and truth," 7 "Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and by no means clearing the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation."
  • Deut 7:7-8 : 7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all people: 8 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn to your fathers, the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
  • Deut 9:5-6 : 5 It is not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, that you go to possess their land: but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD your God drives them out from before you, and that he may perform the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 6 Understand therefore, that the LORD your God does not give you this good land to possess it because of your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.
  • Neh 9:17 : 17 They refused to obey, and were not mindful of Your wonders that You did among them. But they hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a leader to return to their bondage. But You are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness, and did not forsake them.
  • Ps 51:1 : 1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your lovingkindness; according to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
  • Ps 86:5 : 5 For You, Lord, are good and ready to forgive, and abundant in mercy to all them that call upon You.
  • Isa 55:6-8 : 6 Seek the LORD while he may be found, call upon him while he is near. 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. 8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the LORD.
  • Jer 31:3 : 3 The LORD appeared to me long ago, saying, Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn you.
  • Ezek 16:6-8 : 6 And when I passed by you, and saw you polluted in your own blood, I said to you when you were in your blood, Live; yes, I said to you when you were in your blood, Live. 7 I have caused you to multiply like the bud of the field, and you have increased and grown great, and you have come to excellent ornaments; your breasts are formed, and your hair has grown, whereas you were naked and bare. 8 Now when I passed by you, and looked upon you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my garment over you, and covered your nakedness; yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord GOD, and you became mine.
  • Ps 103:8-9 : 8 The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and rich in mercy. 9 He will not always rebuke: nor will He keep His anger forever. 10 He has not dealt with us according to our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. 11 For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward those who fear Him.
  • Rom 5:20-21 : 20 Moreover, the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more: 21 So that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
  • Jonah 4:2 : 2 And he prayed to the LORD, and said, I pray you, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was still in my country? Therefore I fled before to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and relent from doing harm.
  • Mic 7:18-20 : 18 Who is a God like you, that pardons iniquity, and passes by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in mercy. 19 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. 20 You will perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
  • Luke 1:78 : 78 Through the tender mercy of our God, with which the Dayspring from on high has visited us,
  • John 3:14-17 : 14 As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.
  • Rom 2:4 : 4 Or do you despise the riches of His goodness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
  • Rom 5:8 : 8 But God demonstrates His love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
  • Rom 9:15-16 : 15 For He says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. 16 So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.
  • Dan 9:9 : 9 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness, though we have rebelled against Him;

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