and that to you, O Lord, belongs steadfast love. For you will render to a man according to his work.
For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done.
The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
For according to the work of a man he will repay him, and according to his ways he will make it befall him.
“Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay each one for what he has done.
He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor.
He will render to each one according to his works:
To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him
If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to his work?
But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.
The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.”
And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile,
For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality.
knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a bondservant or is free.
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love.
O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see our desolations, and the city that is called by your name. For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy.
Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ O house of Israel, I will judge each of you according to his ways.”
“Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, declares the Lord God. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, lest iniquity be your ruin.
The king mourns, the prince is wrapped in despair, and the hands of the people of the land are paralyzed by terror. According to their way I will do to them, and according to their judgments I will judge them, and they shall know that I am the Lord.”
great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of man, rewarding each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.
But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children's children,
For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you.
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