Divine love letters in the Old and New Testament
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You may not know me, but I know everything about you ... Psalm 1391 I know when you sit down and when you rise up ... Psalm 1392 I am familiar with all your ways... Psalm 1393 Even the very hairs on your head are numbered... Matthew 1029-31 For you were made in my image... Genesis 127 In me you live and move and have your being... Acts 1728 For you are my offspring... Acts 1728 I knew you even before you were conceived... Jeremiah 14-5 I chose you when I planned creation... Ephesians 111-12 You were not a mistake, for all your days are written in my book... Psalm 13915-16 I determined the exact time of your birth and where you would live... Acts 1726 You are fearfully and wonderfully made... Psalm 13914 I knit you together in your mother's womb... Psalm 13913 And brought you forth on the day you were born... Psalm 716 I have been misrepresented by those who don't know me... John 841-44 I am not distant and angry, but am the complete expression of love... 1 John 416 And it is my desire to lavish my love on you simply because you are my child and I am your father... 1 John 31 I offer you more than your earthly father ever could... Matthew 711 For I am the perfect father... Matthew 548 Every good gift that you receive comes from my hand... James 117 For I am your provider and I meet all your needs... Matthew 631-33 My plan for your future has always been filled with hope... Jeremiah 2911 Because I love you with an everlasting love... Jeremiah 313 My thoughts toward you are countless as the sand on the seashore... Psalm 13917-18 And I rejoice over you with singing... Zephaniah 317 I will never stop doing good to you... Jeremiah 3240 For you are my treasured possession... Exodus 195 I desire to establish you with all my heart and all my soul... Jeremiah 3241 And I want to show you great and marvelous things... Jeremiah 333 If you seek me with all your heart, you will find me... Deuteronomy 429 Delight in me and I will give you the desires of your heart... Psalm 374 For it is I who gave you those desires... Philippians 213 I am able to do more for you than you could possibly imagine... Ephesians 320 For I am your greatest encourager... 2 Thessalonians 216-17 I am also the Father who comforts you in all your troubles... 2 Corinthians 13-4 When you are brokenhearted, I am close to you... Psalm 3418 As a shepherd carries a lamb, I have carried you close to my heart... Isaiah 4011 One day I will wipe away every tear from your eyes and will take away all the pain you have suffered on this earth... Revelation 213-4 I am your Father, and I love you even as I love my son, Jesus... John 1723 For in Jesus, my love for you is revealed.... John 1726 He is the exact representation of my being... Hebrews 13 He came to demonstrate that I am for you, not against you... Romans 831 And to tell you that I am not counting your sins... 2 Corinthians 518-19 Jesus died so that you and I could be reconciled... 2 Corinthians 518-19 His death was the ultimate expression of my love for you... 1 John 410 I gave up everything I loved that I might gain your love... Romans 831-32 If you receive the gift of my son Jesus, you receive me... 1 John 223 And nothing will ever separate you from my love again... Romans 838-39 Come home and I'll throw the biggest party heaven has ever seen... Luke 157 I have always been Father, and will always be Father... Ephesians 314-15 My question is...Will you be my child? ... John 112-13 I am waiting for you... Luke 1511-32
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Exodus 346 (NIV)
6 And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, ?The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness,Numbers 1418 (NIV)
18 ?The Lord is slow to anger, abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation.Deuteronomy 431 (NIV)
31 For the Lord your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or destroy you or forget the covenant with your forefathers, which he confirmed to them by oath.Nehemiah 917 (NIV)
17 They refused to listen and failed to remember the miracles you performed among them. They became stiff-necked and in their rebellion appointed a leader in order to return to their slavery. But you are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and aboundingPsalm 865 (NIV)
5 You are forgiving and good, O Lord,
abounding in love to all who call to youPsalm 1084 (NIV)
4 For great is your love, higher than the heavens;
your faithfulness reaches to the skiesPsalm 1458 (NIV)
8 The Lord is gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and rich in love.Joel 213 (NIV)
13 Rend your heart
and not your garments.
Return to the Lord your God,
for he is gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and abounding in love,
and he relents from sending calamityHebrews 126 (NIV)
6 because the Lord disciplines those he loves,
and he punishes everyone he accepts as a son.?Deuteronomy 1018 says,
"He executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and shows His love for the alien by giving him food and clothing.