Jeremiah 18:8
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8 and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, (A)turns from its evil, (B)I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it.
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Ezekiel 18:21
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21 (A)“But if a wicked person turns away from all his sins that he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does (B)what is just and right, (C)he shall surely live; he shall not die.
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Jeremiah 26:13
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13 Now therefore (A)mend your ways and your deeds, (B)and obey the voice of the Lord your God, (C)and the Lord will relent of the disaster that he has pronounced against you.
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Jonah 3:9-10
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9 (A)Who knows? God may turn and relent (B)and turn from his fierce anger, so that we may not perish.”
10 When God saw what they did, (C)how they turned from their evil way, (D)God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.
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Hosea 11:8
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8 How can I give you up, O Ephraim?
How can I hand you over, O Israel?
(A)How can I make you (B)like Admah?
How can I treat you (C)like Zeboiim?
(D)My heart recoils within me;
my compassion grows warm and tender.
Jeremiah 26:3
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3 (A)It may be they will listen, and every one turn from his evil way, (B)that I may relent of the disaster that I intend to do to them (C)because of their evil deeds.
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Amos 7:3-6
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3 (A)The Lord relented concerning this:
“It shall not be,” said the Lord.
4 (B)This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, the Lord God was calling (C)for a judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land. 5 Then I said,
“O Lord God, please cease!
(D)How can Jacob stand?
He is so small!”
6 (E)The Lord relented concerning this:
“This also shall not be,” said the Lord God.
Joel 2:13-14
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13 and (A)rend your hearts and not (B)your garments.”
Return to the Lord your God,
(C)for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love;
(D)and he relents over disaster.
14 (E)Who knows whether he will not turn and relent,
and (F)leave a blessing behind him,
(G)a grain offering and a drink offering
for the Lord your God?
Judges 2:18
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18 Whenever the Lord raised up judges for them, (A)the Lord was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. (B)For the Lord was moved to pity by (C)their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them.
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Jeremiah 7:3-7
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3 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: (A)Amend your ways and your deeds, and I will let you dwell in this place. 4 (B)Do not trust in these deceptive words: ‘This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.’
5 “For if you truly (C)amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly (D)execute justice one with another, 6 if you (E)do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, (F)or shed innocent blood in this place, (G)and if you do not go after other gods to your own harm, 7 (H)then I will let you dwell in this place, (I)in the land that I gave of old to your fathers forever.
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Psalm 106:45
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45 For their sake he (A)remembered his covenant,
and (B)relented according to (C)the abundance of his steadfast love.
Luke 13:3-5
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3 No, I tell you; but unless you (A)repent, you will all likewise perish. 4 Or those eighteen on whom the tower in (B)Siloam fell and killed them: do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem? 5 No, I tell you; but unless you (C)repent, you will all likewise perish.”
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Isaiah 1:16-19
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16 (A)Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes;
(B)cease to do evil,
17 learn to do good;
(C)seek justice,
correct oppression;
(D)bring justice to the fatherless,
plead the widow's cause.
18 “Come now, (E)let us reason[a] together, says the Lord:
though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be as (F)white as snow;
though they are red like crimson,
they shall become like wool.
19 (G)If you are willing and obedient,
you shall eat the good of the land;
Footnotes
- Isaiah 1:18 Or dispute
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
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