Ephesians 2:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,”
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“But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“and God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us,”
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Other passages that echo Ephesians 2:4 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 33:19“I will cause all My goodness to pass before you,” the LORD replied, “and I will proclaim My name—the LORD—in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
- Exodus 34:6Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,
- Deuteronomy 7:7The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than the other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.
- Deuteronomy 9:5It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
- Nehemiah 9:17They refused to listen and failed to remember the wonders You performed among them. They stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return them to their bondage in Egypt. But You are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in loving devotion, and You did not forsake them.
- Psalms 51:1Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.
- Psalms 86:5For You, O Lord, are kind and forgiving, rich in loving devotion to all who call on You.
- Psalms 86:15But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.
- Psalms 103:8The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion.
- Psalms 145:8The LORD is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion.
- Isaiah 55:6Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
- Jeremiah 31:3The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.
- Ezekiel 16:6Then I passed by and saw you wallowing in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, ‘Live!’ There I said to you, ‘Live!’
- Daniel 9:9To the Lord our God belong compassion and forgiveness, even though we have rebelled against Him
- Jonah 4:2So he prayed to the LORD, saying, “O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish. I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion—One who relents from sending disaster.
- Micah 7:18Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance— who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
- Luke 1:78because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the Dawn will visit us from on high,
- John 3:14Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,
- Romans 2:4Or do you disregard the riches of His kindness, tolerance, and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness leads you to repentance?
- Romans 5:8But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
- Romans 5:20The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
- Romans 9:15For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
- Romans 9:23What if He did this to make the riches of His glory known to the vessels of His mercy, whom He prepared in advance for glory—
- Romans 10:12For there is no difference between Jew and Greek: The same Lord is Lord of all, and gives richly to all who call on Him,
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