129 For this is the way whereof Moses spoke to the people while he lived, saying, Choose you life, that you may live.
130 Nevertheless they believed not him, nor yet the prophets after him, no, nor me which have spoken to them;
131 so that there shall not be such heaviness in their destruction, as there shall be joy over them that are persuaded to salvation.
132 I answered then and said, I know, Lord, that the Most High is now called merciful, in that he has mercy upon them which are not yet come into the world;
133 and compassionate, in that he has compassion upon those that turn to his law;
134 and longsuffering, for that he long suffers those that have sinned, as his creatures;
135 and bountiful, for that he is ready to give rather than to exact;