Jeremiah 18:8
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8 but if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will change my mind about the disaster that I intended to bring on it.(A)
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Ezekiel 18:21
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21 But if the wicked turn away from all their sins that they have committed and keep all my statutes and do what is lawful and right, they shall surely live; they shall not die.(A)
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Jeremiah 26:13
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13 Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the Lord your God, and the Lord will change his mind about the disaster that he has pronounced against you.(A)
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Jonah 3:9-10
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9 Who knows? God may relent and change his mind; he may turn from his fierce anger, so that we do not perish.”(A)
10 When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil ways, God changed his mind about the calamity that he had said he would bring upon them, and he did not do it.(B)
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Hosea 11:8
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8 How can I give you up, Ephraim?
How can I hand you over, O Israel?
How can I make you like Admah?
How can I treat you like Zeboiim?
My heart recoils within me;
my compassion grows warm and tender.(A)
Jeremiah 26:3
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3 It may be that they will listen and will turn from their evil way, that I may change my mind about the disaster that I intend to bring on them because of their evil doings.(A)
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Joel 2:13-14
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13 rend your hearts and not your clothing.
Return to the Lord your God,
for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love,
and relenting from punishment.(A)
14 Who knows whether he will not turn and relent
and leave a blessing behind him,
a grain offering and a drink offering
for the Lord your God?(B)
Judges 2:18
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18 Whenever the Lord raised up judges for them, the Lord was with the judge, and he delivered them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge, for the Lord would be moved to pity by their groaning because of those who persecuted and oppressed them.
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Amos 7:3-6
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3 The Lord relented concerning this;
“It shall not be,” said the Lord.(A)
4 This is what the Lord God showed me: the Lord God was calling for judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land. 5 Then I said,
“O Lord God, cease, I beg you!
How can Jacob stand?
He is so small!”(B)
6 The Lord relented concerning this;
“This also shall not be,” said the Lord God.(C)
Jeremiah 7:3-7
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3 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Amend your ways and your doings, and let me dwell with you[a] in this place. 4 Do not trust in these deceptive words: “This is[b] the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.”
5 For if you truly amend your ways and your doings, if you truly act justly one with another,(A) 6 if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, and the widow or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own hurt,(B) 7 then I will dwell with you[c] in this place, in the land that I gave to your ancestors forever and ever.
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Psalm 106:45
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45 For their sake he remembered his covenant
and showed compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love.(A)
Luke 13:3-5
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3 No, I tell you, but unless you repent you will all perish as they did. 4 Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam fell on them—do you think that they were worse offenders than all the other people living in Jerusalem?(A) 5 No, I tell you, but unless you repent you will all perish just as they did.”
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Isaiah 1:16-19
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16 Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
remove your evil deeds
from before my eyes;
cease to do evil;(A)
17 learn to do good;
seek justice;
rescue the oppressed;
defend the orphan;
plead for the widow.(B)
18 Come now, let us argue it out,
says the Lord:
If your sins are like scarlet,
will they become like snow?
If they are red like crimson,
will they become like wool?(C)
19 If you are willing and obedient,
you shall eat the good of the land,(D)
Jonah 4:2
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2 He prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord! Is not this what I said while I was still in my own country? That is why I fled to Tarshish at the beginning, for I knew that you are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from punishment.(A)
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Jonah 2:5-10
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5 The waters closed in over me;
the deep surrounded me;
weeds were wrapped around my head(A)
6 at the roots of the mountains.
I went down to the land
whose bars closed upon me forever;
yet you brought up my life from the Pit,
O Lord my God.(B)
7 As my life was ebbing away,
I remembered the Lord,
and my prayer came to you,
into your holy temple.(C)
8 Those who worship vain idols
forsake their true loyalty.(D)
9 But I with the voice of thanksgiving
will sacrifice to you;
what I have vowed I will pay.
Deliverance belongs to the Lord!”(E)
10 Then the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out onto the dry land.
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Ezekiel 33:13
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13 Though I say to the righteous that they shall surely live, yet if they trust in their righteousness and commit iniquity, none of their righteous deeds shall be remembered, but in the iniquity that they have committed they shall die.(A)
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Ezekiel 33:11
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11 Say to them: As I live, says the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked turn from their ways and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?(A)
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Jeremiah 42:10
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10 If you will only remain in this land, then I will build you up and not pull you down; I will plant you and not pluck you up, for I am sorry for the disaster that I have brought upon you.(A)
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Jeremiah 36:3
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3 It may be that, when the house of Judah hears of all the disasters that I intend to do to them, all of them may turn from their evil ways, so that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.(A)
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Jeremiah 26:19
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19 “Did King Hezekiah of Judah and all Judah actually put him to death? Did he not fear the Lord and entreat the favor of the Lord, and did not the Lord change his mind about the disaster that he had pronounced against them? But we are about to bring great disaster on ourselves!”(A)
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Jeremiah 15:6
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6 You have rejected me, says the Lord;
you are going backward,
so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you—
I am weary of relenting.(A)
Psalm 135:14
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14 For the Lord will vindicate his people
and have compassion on his servants.(A)
Psalm 90:13
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13 Turn, O Lord! How long?
Have compassion on your servants!(A)
2 Chronicles 12:6
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6 Then the officers of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The Lord is in the right.”(A)
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1 Kings 8:33-34
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33 “When your people Israel, having sinned against you, are defeated before an enemy but turn again to you, confess your name, pray and plead with you in this house,(A) 34 then hear in heaven, forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land that you gave to their ancestors.
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