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The New King James Version (Chapter 34)

6 And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, 7 keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”

Exodus 34:6–7 is unusual in that it is the only place in Scripture in which God lists His own attributes!

Chuck Swindoll; Roy B. Zuck

‘Mercy’ represents the desire to relieve suffering while ‘compassion’ [or graciousness] refers to the feelings which are experienced in the view of suffering. In other words, compassion generally comes before mercy. Compassion means that when you see a case of suffering, then there are certain feelings that are kindled within you immediately, a sense of sorrow and a sense of pity. And mercy is what puts that into practice. Mercy is more practical than compassion; it is the desire to relieve the suffering, to do something about it and to remove it.

God’s Sovereign Purpose, 156

David Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Grace experienced makes people gracious.

Mercy enjoyed makes them merciful.

Forgiveness received makes them forgiving.

And faith bestowed makes them faithful.

Unknown

“It is ‘the meek’ who are also ‘the merciful’. For to be meek is to acknowledge to others that we are sinners; to be merciful is to have compassion on others, for they are sinners too” (Stott, p. 48, emphasis his)

D. A. Carson

For to be meek is to acknowledge to others that we are sinners; to be merciful is to have compassion on others, for they are sinners too.

John Stott; Douglas Connelly

Good morning!

Prayer is dealing with God.

A Poor Man’s Cry-And What Came Of It, Volume 37, Sermon #2193 - Psalm 34:6

Charles Spurgeon