Job 33:18

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,

But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Therefore turn yourselves, and live!

whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;

“In a very little while, he who comes will come, and will not wait.

he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.

For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked?” says the Lord Yahweh; “and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?

Tell them, ‘ “As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?” ’

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;

You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy toward her, and they rejoiced with her.

Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

She said, “No one, Lord.” Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more.”

it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.

who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.

For a fire is kindled in my anger, that burns to the lowest Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.

When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

He will not depart out of darkness. The flame will dry up his branches. He will go away by the breath of God’s mouth.

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me.

You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

I bring my righteousness near. It is not far off, and my salvation will not wait. I will grant salvation to Zion, my glory to Israel.

I listened and heard, but they didn’t say what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.

In the time that you were broken by the seas, in the depths of the waters, your merchandise and all your company fell within you.

Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.

He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.

The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him.

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.

For Yahweh will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two door posts, Yahweh will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.

“Yahweh kills and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol and brings up.

He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.

Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.

then God is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.’

He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’

to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.

Don’t let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.

Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him. therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.

They will bring you down to the pit. You will die the death of those who are slain in the heart of the seas.

Neither does one jostle another; they march everyone in his path, and they burst through the defenses, and don’t break ranks.

As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.

Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory. Then he was eaten by worms and died.

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you,