Job 33:24

A Third Way God Warns People

²³ If there be a messenger with him, a mediator, one of a thousand, to show unto man his uprightness: ²⁴ Then he is gracious unto him, and says, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom. ²⁵ His flesh shall be younger than a child's: he shall return to the days of his youth:

Go Down to the Pit

Going Down to the Pit

Be Gracious

Job

Job 33:18

He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

Exodus 33:19

And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before you; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.

Exodus 34:6-7

And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,

Job 22:21

Acquaint now yourself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto you.

Job 36:10-11

He opens also their ear to discipline, and commands that they return from iniquity.

Job 36:18

Because there is wrath, beware lest he take you away with one blow: then a great ransom cannot deliver you.

Psalm 22:4

Our fathers trusted in you: they trusted, and you did deliver them.

Psalm 30:9-12

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? shall it declare your truth?

Psalm 40:2

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my steps.

Psalm 49:7-8

None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:

Psalm 71:3

Be my strong habitation, to which I may continually resort: you have given commandment to save me; for you are my rock and my fortress.

Psalm 86:5

For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; and abundant in mercy unto all them that call upon you.

Psalm 86:13

For great is your mercy toward me: and you have delivered my soul from the depths of sheol.

Psalm 86:15

But you, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in mercy and truth.

Isaiah 38:17-19

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

Jeremiah 31:20

Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spoke against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart is troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, says the LORD.

Hosea 14:2

Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we offer the sacrifices of our lips.

Hosea 14:4

I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for my anger has turned away from him.

Micah 7:18-20

Who is a God like unto you, who pardons iniquity, and passes by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retains not his anger forever, because he delights in mercy.

Zechariah 9:11

As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant I have sent forth your prisoners out of the pit in which is no water.

Matthew 20:28

Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

Romans 3:24-26

Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

Romans 5:20-21

Moreover the law entered, that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:

1 Timothy 2:6

Who gave himself a ransom for all, this to be a testimony at the proper time.

1 Peter 1:18-19

Since you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain manner of life received by tradition from your fathers;