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and gracious, because he is gracious to those who turn in repentance to his law;
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and patient, because he shows patience toward those who have sinned, since they are his own creatures;
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and bountiful, because he would rather give than take away;[ak]
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and abundant in compassion, because he makes his compassions abound more and more to those now living and to those who are gone and to those yet to come—
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for if he did not make them abound, the world with those who inhabit it would not have life—
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