Verse 16

When Lot hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters because the LORD had compassion on them. They led them away and placed them outside the city.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Chr 16:34 : 34 Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good and his loyal love endures.
  • Ps 34:12 : 12 Do you want to really live? Would you love to live a long, happy life?
  • Ps 86:5 : 5 Certainly O Lord, you are kind and forgiving, and show great faithfulness to all who cry out to you.
  • Ps 86:15 : 15 But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and merciful God. You are patient and demonstrate great loyal love and faithfulness.
  • Ps 103:8-9 : 8 The LORD is compassionate and merciful; he is patient and demonstrates great loyal love. 9 He does not always accuse, and does not stay angry. 10 He does not deal with us as our sins deserve; he does not repay us as our misdeeds deserve.
  • Ps 103:13 : 13 As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on his faithful followers.
  • Ps 106:1 : 1 Praise the LORD! Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, and his loyal love endures!
  • Ps 106:8 : 8 Yet he delivered them for the sake of his reputation, that he might reveal his power.
  • Ps 107:1 : 1 Book 5(Psalms 107-150) Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, and his loyal love endures!
  • Ps 111:4 : 4 He does amazing things that will be remembered; the LORD is merciful and compassionate.
  • Ps 118:1 : 1 Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good and his loyal love endures!
  • Ps 119:60 : 60 I keep your commands eagerly and without delay.
  • Ps 136:1 : 1 Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his loyal love endures.
  • Isa 63:9 : 9 Through all that they suffered, he suffered too. The messenger sent from his very presence delivered them. In his love and mercy he protected them; he lifted them up and carried them throughout ancient times.
  • Lam 3:22 : 22 ח(Khet) The LORD’s loyal kindness never ceases; his compassions never end.
  • Mic 7:18-19 : 18 Who is a God like you? Who forgives sin and pardons the rebellion of those who remain among his people? Who does not stay angry forever, but delights in showing loyal love? 19 Who will once again have mercy on us? Who will conquer our evil deeds? Who will hurl all our sins into the depths of the sea?
  • Luke 6:35-36 : 35 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to ungrateful and evil people. 36 Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
  • Luke 18:13 : 13 The tax collector, however, stood far off and would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said,‘God, be merciful to me, sinner that I am!’
  • John 6:44 : 44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
  • Rom 9:15-16 : 15 For he says to Moses:“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” 16 So then, it does not depend on human desire or exertion, but on God who shows mercy.
  • Rom 9:18 : 18 So then, God has mercy on whom he chooses to have mercy, and he hardens whom he chooses to harden.
  • 2 Cor 1:3 : 3 Thanksgiving for God’s Comfort Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
  • Eph 2:4-5 : 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us, 5 even though we were dead in offenses, made us alive together with Christ– by grace you are saved!–
  • Titus 3:5 : 5 he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,
  • 2 Pet 2:9 : 9 – if so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from their trials, and to reserve the unrighteous for punishment at the day of judgment,
  • Exod 34:6 : 6 The LORD passed by before him and proclaimed:“The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, and abounding in loyal love and faithfulness,
  • Num 14:18 : 18 ‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loyal love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children until the third and fourth generations.’
  • Deut 4:31 : 31 (for he is a merciful God), he will not let you down or destroy you, for he cannot forget the covenant with your ancestors that he confirmed by oath to them.
  • Josh 6:22 : 22 Joshua told the two men who had spied on the land,“Enter the prostitute’s house and bring out the woman and all who belong to her as you promised her.”