Jonah 3:10

Geneva Bible (1560)

And God sawe their workes that they turned from their euill wayes: and God repented of the euill that he had said that he woulde doe vnto them, and he did it not.

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  • Jer 18:8 : 8 But if this nation, against whom I haue pronounced, turne from their wickednesse, I will repent of the plague that I thought to bring vpon them.
  • Amos 7:6 : 6 So the Lord repented for this. This also shal not be, saith the Lord God.
  • Exod 32:14 : 14 Then the Lord changed his minde fro the euil, which he threatned to do vnto his people.
  • 1 Kgs 21:27-29 : 27 Nowe when Ahab heard those wordes, he rent his clothes, & put sackcloth vpon him and fasted, and lay in sackecloth and went softely. 28 And the worde of the Lord came to Eliiah the Tishbite, saying, 29 Seest thou how Ahab is humbled before me? because he submitteth himselfe before me, I will not bring that euill in his dayes, but in his sonnes dayes wil I bring euill vpon his house.
  • Amos 7:3 : 3 So the Lord repented for this. It shal not be, saith the Lord.
  • Job 33:27-28 : 27 He looketh vpon men, and if one say, I haue sinned, and peruerted righteousnesse, and it did not profite me, 28 He will deliuer his soule from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
  • Jer 31:18-20 : 18 I haue heard Ephraim lamenting thus, Thou hast corrected me, and I was chastised as an vntamed calfe: conuert thou me, and I shalbe conuerted: for thou art the Lord my God. 19 Surely after that I conuerted, I repented: and after that I was instructed, I smote vpon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, euen confounded, because I did beare the reproch of my youth. 20 Is Ephraim my deare sonne or pleasant childe? yet since I spake vnto him, I still remembred him: therefore my bowels are troubled for him: I wil surely haue compassion vpon him, saith the Lorde.
  • Joel 2:13 : 13 And rent your heart, & not your clothes: and turne vnto the Lord your God, for he is gratious, and mercifull, slowe to anger, and of great kindnes, and repenteth him of the euill.
  • Jonah 4:2 : 2 And he prayed vnto the Lord, and saide, I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my countrey? therefore I preuented it to flee vnto Tarshish: for I knewe that thou art a gratious God, & merciful, slow to anger, & of great kindnes, and repentest thee of the euill.
  • Luke 11:32 : 32 The men of Niniue shall rise in iudgement with this generation, and shall condemne it: for they repented at the preaching of Ionas: and beholde, a greater then Ionas is here.
  • Luke 15:20 : 20 So hee arose and came to his father, and when hee was yet a great way off, his father sawe him, and had compassion, and ranne and fell on his necke, and kissed him.

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  • Jonah 3:8-9
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    83%

    8But let man and beast put on sackecloth, and crie mightily vnto God: yea, let euery man turne from his euill way, and from the wickednesse that is in their handes.

    9Who can tell if God will turne, and repent and turne away from his fierce wrath, that we perish not?

  • Exod 32:14
    81%

    14Then the Lord changed his minde fro the euil, which he threatned to do vnto his people.

  • Jer 26:3
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    3If so be they will hearken, and turne euery man from his euill way, that I may repent me of the plague, which I haue determined to bring vpon them, because of the wickednesse of their workes.

  • Jer 18:8
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    8But if this nation, against whom I haue pronounced, turne from their wickednesse, I will repent of the plague that I thought to bring vpon them.

  • Amos 7:3
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    3So the Lord repented for this. It shal not be, saith the Lord.

  • Jer 18:10-11
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    76%

    10But if it do euill in my sight and heare not my voyce, I will repent of ye good that I thought to do for them.

    11Speake thou nowe therefore vnto the men of Iudah, and to the inhabitants of Ierusalem, saying, Thus saith ye Lord, Behold, I prepare a plague for you, and purpose a thing against you: returne you therefore euery one from his euill way, and make your wayes and your workes good.

  • Gen 6:6-7
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    76%

    6Then it repented ye Lord, that he had made man in the earth, and he was sorie in his heart.

    7Therefore ye Lord said, I will destroy from the earth the man, whom I haue created, fro man to beast, to the creeping thing, and to the foule of the heauen: for I repent that I haue made them.

  • Amos 7:6
    74%

    6So the Lord repented for this. This also shal not be, saith the Lord God.

  • Jer 26:13
    74%

    13Therefore nowe amende your wayes and your workes, and heare the voyce of the Lorde your God, that the Lorde may repent him of the plague, that he hath pronounced against you.

  • Ps 78:38
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    38Yet he being merciful forgaue their iniquitie, & destroied them not, but oft times called backe his anger, & did not stirre vp all his wrath.

  • Joel 2:13-14
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    73%

    13And rent your heart, & not your clothes: and turne vnto the Lord your God, for he is gratious, and mercifull, slowe to anger, and of great kindnes, and repenteth him of the euill.

    14Who knoweth, is he wil returne & repent & leaue a blessing behinde him, euen a meate offring, & a drinke offring vnto ye Lord your God?

  • Jonah 4:2
    71%

    2And he prayed vnto the Lord, and saide, I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my countrey? therefore I preuented it to flee vnto Tarshish: for I knewe that thou art a gratious God, & merciful, slow to anger, & of great kindnes, and repentest thee of the euill.

  • Job 34:27
    70%

    27Because they haue turned backe from him, and would not consider all his wayes:

  • Prov 24:18
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    18Least the Lorde see it, and it displease him, and he turne his wrath from him.

  • Dan 9:14
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    14Therefore hath the Lord made ready the plague, and brought it vpon vs: for the Lord our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we would not heare his voyce.

  • Ps 106:45
    69%

    45And he remembred his couenant towarde them and repented acoording to the multitude of his mercies,

  • Ezek 33:19
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    19But if the wicked returne from his wickednesse, and doe that which is lawfull and right, hee shall liue thereby.

  • Lam 3:32-33
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    32But though he sende affliction, yet will he haue compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

    33For he doeth not punish willingly, nor afflict the children of men,

  • 1 Kgs 8:47
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    47Yet if they turne againe vnto their heart in the lande (to the which they be caryed away captiues) and returne and pray vnto thee in the lande of them that caryed them away captiues, saying, We haue sinned, we haue transgressed, and done wickedly,

  • Jer 3:5
    68%

    5Wil he keepe his anger for euer? Will he reserue it to the ende? Thus hast thou spoken, but thou doest euill, euen more and more.

  • 2 Cor 7:10
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    10For godly sorowe causeth repentance vnto saluation, not to be repented of: but the worldly sorowe causeth death.

  • Isa 3:9
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    9The triall of their countenance testifieth against them, yea, they declare their sinnes as Sodom, they hide them not. Wo be vnto their soules: for they haue rewarded euil vnto themselues.

  • Exod 32:12
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    12Wherefore shall the Egyptians speake, and say, He hath brought them out maliciously for to slay them in the mountaines, and to consume them from the earth? turne from thy fearce wrath, and change thy minde from this euill towarde thy people.

  • Neh 9:17
    68%

    17But refused to obey, & would not remember thy marueilous works that thou haddest done for them, but hardened their neckes, and had in their heads to returne to their bondage by their rebellion: but thou, O God of mercies, gratious and full of compassion, of long suffring and of great mercie, yet forsookest them not.

  • Zech 8:14
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    14For thus sayth the Lorde of hostes, As I thought to punish you, when your fathers prouoked me vnto wrath, sayth the Lord of hostes, and repented not,

  • 2 Chr 6:37
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    37If they turne againe to their heart in the lande whither they be caryed in captiues, and turne and pray vnto thee in the lande of their captiuitie, saying, We haue sinned, we haue transgressed and haue done wickedly,

  • Rom 2:4
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    4Or despisest thou the riches of his bountifulnesse, and patience, and long sufferance, not knowing that the bountifulnesse of God leadeth thee to repentance?

  • Num 23:19
    68%

    19God is not as man, that he should lie, neither as the sonne of man that he shoulde repent: hath he sayde and shal he not do it? and hath he spoken, and shal he not accomplish it?

  • Jer 36:7
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    7It may be that they will pray before the Lorde, and euery one returne from his euill way, for great is the anger and the wrath, that the Lord hath declared against this people.

  • Jer 42:10
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    10If ye will dwell in this land, then I wil build you, and not destroy you, and I will plant you, and not roote you out: for I repent me of the euill that I haue done vnto you.

  • Lam 3:40
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    40Let vs search and try our wayes, and turne againe to the Lord.

  • Gen 18:20
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    20Then the Lorde saide, Because the crie of Sodom and Gomorah is great, and because their sinne is exceeding grieuous,

  • Gen 18:30
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    30Againe he said, Let not my Lord nowe be angry, that I speake, What if thirtie be founde there? Then he saide, I will not doe it, if I finde thirtie there.

  • Jonah 3:5
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    5So the people of Nineueh beleeued God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from ye greatest of the euen to the least of them.

  • Ps 78:10-11
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    10They kept not the couenant of God, but refused to walke in his Lawe,

    11And forgate his Actes, and his wonderfull woorkes that he had shewed them.

  • Gen 18:32
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    32Then he saide, Let not my Lord be nowe angrie, and I will speake but this once, What if tenne be found there? And he answered, I will not destroy it for tennes sake.

  • Jonah 1:14
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    14Wherefore they cryed vnto the Lord, and said, We beseech thee, O Lord, we beseech thee, let vs not perish for this mans life, and lay not vpon vs innocent blood: for thou, O Lord, hast done, as it pleased thee.

  • Rev 9:21
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    21Also they repented not of their murther, and of their sorcerie, neither of their fornication, nor of their theft.

  • Acts 8:22
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    22Repent therefore of this thy wickednes, and pray God, that if it be possible, the thought of thine heart may be forgiuen thee.