Thematic Bible: Penalty sometimes delayed
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Error » Sin's penalty » Penalty sometimes delayed
In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit."
For the sake of my reputation I hold back my anger; for the sake of my prestige I restrain myself from destroying you.
after they were disobedient long ago when God patiently waited in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through water.
"Have you noticed how Ahab shows remorse before me? Because he shows remorse before me, I will not bring disaster on his dynasty during his lifetime, but during the reign of his son."
However, for your father David's sake I will not do this while you are alive. I will tear it away from your son's hand instead.
But the Lord had mercy on them and felt pity for them. He extended his favor to them because of the promise he had made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He has been unwilling to destroy them or remove them from his presence to this very day.
When a sentence is not executed at once against a crime, the human heart is encouraged to do evil.
So he said to the worker who tended the vineyard, 'For three years now, I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and each time I inspect it I find none. Cut it down! Why should it continue to deplete the soil?' But the worker answered him, 'Sir, leave it alone this year too, until I dig around it and put fertilizer on it.
Sin » Penalty for » Penalty sometimes delayed
In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit."
For the sake of my reputation I hold back my anger; for the sake of my prestige I restrain myself from destroying you.
after they were disobedient long ago when God patiently waited in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through water.
"Have you noticed how Ahab shows remorse before me? Because he shows remorse before me, I will not bring disaster on his dynasty during his lifetime, but during the reign of his son."
However, for your father David's sake I will not do this while you are alive. I will tear it away from your son's hand instead.
But the Lord had mercy on them and felt pity for them. He extended his favor to them because of the promise he had made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He has been unwilling to destroy them or remove them from his presence to this very day.
When a sentence is not executed at once against a crime, the human heart is encouraged to do evil.
So he said to the worker who tended the vineyard, 'For three years now, I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and each time I inspect it I find none. Cut it down! Why should it continue to deplete the soil?' But the worker answered him, 'Sir, leave it alone this year too, until I dig around it and put fertilizer on it.
Sins » Penalty » Penalty sometimes delayed
In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit."
For the sake of my reputation I hold back my anger; for the sake of my prestige I restrain myself from destroying you.
after they were disobedient long ago when God patiently waited in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through water.
"Have you noticed how Ahab shows remorse before me? Because he shows remorse before me, I will not bring disaster on his dynasty during his lifetime, but during the reign of his son."
However, for your father David's sake I will not do this while you are alive. I will tear it away from your son's hand instead.
But the Lord had mercy on them and felt pity for them. He extended his favor to them because of the promise he had made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He has been unwilling to destroy them or remove them from his presence to this very day.
When a sentence is not executed at once against a crime, the human heart is encouraged to do evil.
So he said to the worker who tended the vineyard, 'For three years now, I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and each time I inspect it I find none. Cut it down! Why should it continue to deplete the soil?' But the worker answered him, 'Sir, leave it alone this year too, until I dig around it and put fertilizer on it.
Transgression » Sin's penalty » Penalty sometimes delayed
In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit."
For the sake of my reputation I hold back my anger; for the sake of my prestige I restrain myself from destroying you.
after they were disobedient long ago when God patiently waited in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through water.
"Have you noticed how Ahab shows remorse before me? Because he shows remorse before me, I will not bring disaster on his dynasty during his lifetime, but during the reign of his son."
However, for your father David's sake I will not do this while you are alive. I will tear it away from your son's hand instead.
But the Lord had mercy on them and felt pity for them. He extended his favor to them because of the promise he had made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He has been unwilling to destroy them or remove them from his presence to this very day.
When a sentence is not executed at once against a crime, the human heart is encouraged to do evil.
So he said to the worker who tended the vineyard, 'For three years now, I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and each time I inspect it I find none. Cut it down! Why should it continue to deplete the soil?' But the worker answered him, 'Sir, leave it alone this year too, until I dig around it and put fertilizer on it.