DID YOU KNOW?

Three passages call God slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. Which one goes on to say he will "by no means" clear the guilty?

The answer

Exodus 34. Exodus 34:6-7 joins God's mercy to a warning: "yet by no means clearing the guilty." Jonah 4:2 stops at the mercy and ends on "relenting from punishment." Psalm 103:8 also keeps only the mercy.

Why it’s interesting

Moses quotes both halves back to God in Numbers 14:18, warning included. Then, in the next verse, he asks God to forgive the people anyway (Numbers 14:19).

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