Exodus 34:6
Exodus 34:66Then 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,
JWs love — it is one of the Bible's great self- descriptions of Jehovah as "a God merciful and compassionate, slow to anger and abundant in loyal love and truth." The verse is read as support for a loving, patient God who would never send sincere people to eternal destruction without giving them opportunity to repent. It appears regularly in JW literature alongside "God is love" texts.
and 34:7 are a single self-description given by God in his own voice, and they must be read together. Verse 6 declares mercy, grace, loyal love, forgiveness. Verse 7 adds "he will by no means leave the guilty unpunished." Both, in the same breath. Any theology that holds one half without the other is describing a different God than the one speaking on Sinai. A Jehovah whose justice waives sin without cost is not the Jehovah of ; a Jehovah whose mercy is merely mechanical covenant-debt is not the Jehovah of . The question the whole Bible answers is: how can both verses be fully true of the same God without contradiction? The cross is the only answer. states it precisely — God is "just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus." Justice fully satisfied; mercy fully extended. and meet at Calvary.