Exodus 34 (KJV) - Bible Truth Library

Nothing can more strongly express the goodness of God to frail mortals than this declaration, "which has been misunderstood and misinterpreted by all our translators."

Ex. 23:7,21• ⁷Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
²¹Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him. (Ex. 23:7,21)

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Num. 14:18‑23• ¹⁸The Lord is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
¹⁹Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
²⁰And the Lord said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
²¹But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.
²²Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
²³Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it: (Num. 14:18‑23)

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Deut. 32:35• ³⁵To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste. (Deut. 32:35)

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Josh. 24:19• ¹⁹And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the Lord: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins. (Josh. 24:19)

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Job 10:14• ¹⁴If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity. (Job 10:14)

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Psa. 9:16‑17• ¹⁶The Lord is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
¹⁷The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. (Psa. 9:16‑17)

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Psa. 11:5‑6• ⁵The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
⁶Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup. (Psa. 11:5‑6)

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Psa. 58:10‑11• ¹⁰The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
¹¹So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth. (Psa. 58:10‑11)

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Psa. 136:10,15• ¹⁰To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy endureth for ever:
¹⁵But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy endureth for ever. (Psa. 136:10,15)

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Isa. 45:21• ²¹Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the Lord? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me. (Isa. 45:21)

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Mic. 6:11• ¹¹Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? (Mic. 6:11)

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Nah. 1:2‑3,6• ²God is jealous, and the Lord revengeth; the Lord revengeth, and is furious; the Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
³The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
⁶Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him. (Nah. 1:2‑3,6)

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Rom. 2:4‑9• ⁴Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
⁵But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
⁶Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
⁷To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life:
⁸But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
⁹Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; (Rom. 2:4‑9)

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Rom. 3:19‑26• ¹⁹Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
²⁰Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
²¹But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
²²Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
²³For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
²⁴Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
²⁵Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
²⁶To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. (Rom. 3:19‑26)

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Rom. 9:22‑23• ²²What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
²³And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, (Rom. 9:22‑23)

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Heb. 12:29• ²⁹For our God is a consuming fire. (Heb. 12:29)

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Rev. 20:15• ¹⁵And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. (Rev. 20:15)

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Rev. 21:8• ⁸But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. (Rev. 21:8)

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J. N. Darby Translation

keeping mercy unto thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but by no means clearing the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.