Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?
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Bible References
I any
Ezekiel 18:32
I do not want anyone to die,' says the Lord Jehovah. 'Turn away from (repent of) your sins and live.'
Ezekiel 33:11
Say to them: 'As I am alive! Declares the Lord Jehovah. I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked. Only that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn back! Turn back from your evil ways! Why then will you die, O house of Israel?'
Lamentations 3:33
He takes no pleasure in troubling and causing grief to the children of men, it is not within his heart.
Hosea 11:8
How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I treat you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is changed within me. All my compassion is aroused.
1 Timothy 2:4
It is God's desire that all men have salvation and come to the full (precise) (accurate) (correct) knowledge (Greek: epignosis: recognition, discernment) of the truth.
2 Peter 3:9
Jehovah is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness. He is longsuffering (patient) toward you. He does not wish that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Not that
Exodus 34:6
Jehovah then passed in front of him and called out: I, Jehovah, am a God who is full of compassion and pity. I am not easily angered and show great love and faithfulness.
Job 33:27
He comes to men and says: 'I sinned, and perverted what was right, but I did not get what I deserved.'
Psalm 147:11
Jehovah is pleased with those who fear him, with those who wait with hope for his mercy.
Jeremiah 31:20
Ephraim, O Ephraim my dear delightful son! Indeed, as often as I have spoken against him, I certainly still remember him. My heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him, declares Jehovah.
Micah 7:18
Who is a God like you who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? You do not keep your anger forever, because you delight in loving-kindness (unchanging love).
Luke 15:4
If you have a hundred sheep and lose one of them, what do you do? You leave the other ninety-nine sheep in the pasture and go looking for the one you lost until you find it.
James 2:13
For judgment is without mercy to him who shows no mercy. And mercy triumphs over judgment.
General references
Proverbs 12:28
The way of righteousness is life. In its pathway there is no death.