Deuteronomy 28:63
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63 And as the Lord (A)took delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the Lord will (B)take delight in bringing ruin upon you and destroying you. And you shall be plucked off the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
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Proverbs 1:26
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Jeremiah 32:41
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41 (A)I will rejoice in doing them good, (B)and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, with all my heart and all my soul.
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Zephaniah 3:17
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17 (A)The Lord your God is in your midst,
(B)a mighty one who will save;
(C)he will rejoice over you with gladness;
he will quiet you by his love;
he will exult over you with loud singing.
Ezekiel 5:13
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13 (A)“Thus shall my anger spend itself, and I will vent my fury upon them and satisfy myself. And they shall know that (B)I am the Lord—that I have spoken in my jealousy—(C)when I spend my fury upon them.
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Isaiah 1:24
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24 Therefore the (A)Lord declares,
the Lord of hosts,
the (B)Mighty One of Israel:
“Ah, I will get relief from my enemies
(C)and avenge myself on my foes.
Deuteronomy 30:9
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9 (A)The Lord your God will make you abundantly prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your cattle and in the fruit of your ground. (B)For the Lord will again take delight in prospering you, as he took delight in your fathers,
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Luke 15:32
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32 It was fitting (A)to celebrate and be glad, for this your brother (B)was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.’”
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Luke 15:23-24
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23 And bring (A)the fattened calf and kill it, and (B)let us eat and celebrate. 24 For this my son (C)was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.’ And they began to celebrate.
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Luke 15:6-10
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6 And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for (A)I have found my sheep that was lost.’ 7 Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who (B)repents than over ninety-nine (C)righteous persons who need no repentance.
The Parable of the Lost Coin
8 “Or what woman, having ten silver coins,[a] if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it? 9 And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.’ 10 Just so, I tell you, there is joy before (D)the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
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- Luke 15:8 Greek ten drachmas; a drachma was a Greek coin approximately equal in value to a Roman denarius, worth about a day's wage for a laborer
Micah 7:18
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God's Steadfast Love and Compassion
18 (A)Who is a God like you, (B)pardoning iniquity
and passing over transgression
(C)for the remnant of his inheritance?
(D)He does not retain his anger forever,
because he delights in steadfast love.
Daniel 7:8
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8 I considered the horns, and behold, (A)there came up among them another horn, a little one, (B)before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots. And behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and (C)a mouth speaking great things.
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Ezekiel 33:11
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11 Say to them, (A)As I live, declares the Lord God, (B)I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; (C)turn back, turn back from your evil ways, (D)for why will you die, O house of Israel?
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Jeremiah 45:4
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4 Thus shall you say to him, Thus says the Lord: (A)Behold, what I have built I am breaking down, and what I have planted I am plucking up—that is, the whole land.
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Jeremiah 42:10
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10 If you will remain in this land, (A)then I will build you up and not pull you down; I will plant you, and not pluck you up; (B)for I relent of the disaster that I did to you.
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Jeremiah 31:40
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Jeremiah 31:28
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28 And it shall come to pass that (A)as I have watched over them (B)to pluck up and break down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring harm, (C)so I will watch over them (D)to build and to plant, declares the Lord.
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Jeremiah 24:6
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6 (A)I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. (B)I will build them up, and not tear them down; (C)I will plant them, and not pluck them up.
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Jeremiah 18:7
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7 If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will (A)pluck up and break down and destroy it,
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Jeremiah 12:14-15
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14 Thus says the Lord concerning all (A)my evil neighbors (B)who touch the heritage that (C)I have given my people Israel to inherit: “Behold, I will pluck them up from their land, and I will pluck up the house of Judah from among them. 15 And after I have plucked them up, I will again have compassion on them, (D)and I will bring them again each to his heritage and each to his land.
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Isaiah 62:5
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5 For as a young man marries a young woman,
so (A)shall your sons marry you,
and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,
so (B)shall your God rejoice over you.
Deuteronomy 7:22
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22 (A)The Lord your God will clear away these nations before you little by little. You may not make an end of them at once,[a] lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you.
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- Deuteronomy 7:22 Or quickly
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