Jonah 3:10
When God saw their actions -- they turned from their evil way of living! -- God relented concerning the judgment he had threatened them with and he did not destroy them.
Jeremiah 18:8
But if that nation I threatened stops doing wrong, I will cancel the destruction I intended to do to it.
Amos 7:6
The Lord decided not to do this. The sovereign Lord said, "This will not happen either."
Exodus 32:14
Then the Lord relented over the evil that he had said he would do to his people.
1 Kings 21:27-29
When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and fasted. He slept in sackcloth and walked around dejected.
Amos 7:3
The Lord decided not to do this. "It will not happen," the Lord said.
Job 33:27-28
That person sings to others, saying: 'I have sinned and falsified what is right, but I was not punished according to what I deserved.
Jeremiah 31:18-20
I have indeed heard the people of Israel say mournfully, 'We were like a calf untrained to the yoke. You disciplined us and we learned from it. Let us come back to you and we will do so, for you are the Lord our God.
Joel 2:13
Return to the Lord your God, for he is merciful and compassionate, slow to anger and boundless in loyal love -- often relenting from calamitous punishment.
Jonah 4:2
He prayed to the Lord and said, "Oh, Lord, this is just what I thought would happen when I was in my own country. This is what I tried to prevent by attempting to escape to Tarshish! -- because I knew that you are gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in mercy, and one who relents concerning threatened judgment.
Luke 11:32
The people of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented when Jonah preached to them -- and now, something greater than Jonah is here!
Luke 15:20
So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way from home his father saw him, and his heart went out to him; he ran and hugged his son and kissed him.