Job 33:24

A Third Way God Warns People

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

Go Down to the Pit

Going Down to the Pit

Be Gracious

Job

Job 33:18

He keepeth 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 thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; 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, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth.

Job 22:21

Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: by this good shall come to thee.

Job 36:10-11

He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.

Job 36:18

Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.

Psalm 22:4

Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

Psalm 30:9-12

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy 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 goings.

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 thou my strong habitation, to which I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress.

Psalm 86:5

For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and abundant in mercy to all them that call upon thee.

Psalm 86:13

For great is thy mercy towards me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.

Psalm 86:15

But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious; long-suffering, and abundant in mercy and truth.

Isaiah 38:17-19

Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy 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 bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.

Hosea 14:2

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

Hosea 14:4

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

Micah 7:18-20

Who is a God like to thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.

Zechariah 9:11

As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit in which is no water.

Matthew 20:28

Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered to, 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 Jesus Christ:

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, to be testified in due time.

1 Peter 1:18-19

Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain course of life received by tradition from your fathers;