Job 33:24

A Third Way God Warns People

²³ If now there may be an angel sent to him, one of the thousands which there are to be between him and God, and to make clear to man what is right for him; ²⁴ And if he has mercy on him, and says, Let him not go down to the underworld, I have given the price for his life: ²⁵ Then his flesh becomes young again, and he comes back to the days of his early strength;

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Job 33:18

To keep back his soul from the underworld, and his life from destruction.

Exodus 33:19

And he said, I will make all the light of my being come before you, and will make clear to you what I am; I will be kind to those to whom I will be kind, and have mercy on those on whom I will have mercy.

Exodus 34:6-7

And the Lord went past before his eyes, saying, The Lord, the Lord, a God full of pity and grace, slow to wrath and great in mercy and faith;

Job 22:21

Put yourself now in a right relation with him and be at peace: so will you do well in your undertakings.

Job 36:10-11

Their ear is open to his teaching, and he gives them orders so that their hearts may be turned from evil.

Job 36:18

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Psalm 22:4

Our fathers had faith in you: they had faith and you were their saviour.

Psalm 40:2

He took me up out of a deep waste place, out of the soft and sticky earth; he put my feet on a rock, and made my steps certain.

Psalm 49:7-8

Truly, no man may get back his soul for a price, or give to God the payment for himself;

Psalm 71:3

Be my strong Rock, the strong place of my salvation; for you are my Rock, and my safe place.

Isaiah 38:17-19

See, in place of peace my soul had bitter sorrow. but you have kept back my soul from the underworld; for you have put all my sins out of your memory.

Jeremiah 31:20

Is Ephraim my dear son? is he the child of my delight? for whenever I say things against him, I still keep him in my memory: so my heart is troubled for him; I will certainly have mercy on him, says the Lord.

Hosea 14:2

Take with you words, and come back to the Lord; say to him, Let there be forgiveness for all wrongdoing, so that we may take what is good, and give in payment the fruit of our lips.

Hosea 14:4

I will put right their errors; freely will my love be given to them, for my wrath is turned away from him.

Micah 7:18-20

Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy.

Zechariah 9:11

And as for you, because of the blood of your agreement, I have sent out your prisoners from the deep hole in which there is no water.

Matthew 20:28

Even as the Son of man did not come to have servants, but to be a servant, and to give his life for the salvation of men.

Romans 3:24-26

And they may have righteousness put to their credit, freely, by his grace, through the salvation which is in Christ Jesus:

Romans 5:20-21

And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace:

1 Timothy 2:6

Who gave himself as an offering for all; witness of which was to be given at the right time;

1 Peter 1:18-19

Being conscious that you have been made free from that foolish way of life which was your heritage from your fathers, not through a payment of things like silver or gold which come to destruction,