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Joel 2:13

So rend your hearts and not your garments,

and return to the LORD your God.

For He is gracious and compassionate,

slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion.

And He relents from sending disaster.

Joel 2:13 BSB
  1. a Forms of the Hebrew chesed are translated here and in most cases throughout the Scriptures as loving devotion; the range of meaning includes love, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, and mercy, as well as loyalty to a covenant.

Joel 2:13 has 35 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 24 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Psalm 86:15 (30 votes) and Psalm 34:18 (27 votes). 55 other verses point back to it. It links with 34 other books, from Genesis 6 to James 5.

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Which verses does Joel 2:13 point to?

The 20 strongest of 35, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Psalm 86:1530 votes

    But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.

  2. Psalm 34:1827 votes

    The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.

  3. Isaiah 57:1522 votes

    For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.

  4. Exodus 34:6–721 votes

    Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness, maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”

  5. Matthew 5:3–420 votes

    “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

  6. Micah 7:1817 votes

    Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?

  7. Psalm 86:514 votes

    For You, O Lord, are kind and forgiving, rich in loving devotion to all who call on You.

  8. James 1:19–2014 votes

    My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger, for man’s anger does not bring about the righteousness that God desires.

  9. Jeremiah 18:7–813 votes

    At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed. But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring.

  10. Psalm 103:812 votes

    The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion.

  11. Isaiah 66:211 votes
  12. Jonah 4:29 votes
  13. Psalm 51:178 votes
  14. 2 Samuel 1:117 votes
  15. Romans 5:20–217 votes
  16. Ephesians 2:47 votes
  17. Numbers 14:186 votes
  18. 2 Kings 22:196 votes
  19. Psalm 106:456 votes
  20. Romans 2:46 votes

Which verses point to Joel 2:13?

The 10 strongest of 55.