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1 Samuel 13 13
Samuel said to Saul,“ You have been foolish. You have not kept the command which the Lord your God gave you. It was at this time that the Lord would have permanently established your reign over Israel,
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Genesis 6:6
the Lord regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
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Joshua 22:16
“ This is what the Lord’s entire community says:‘ What is this treachery you have committed today against the God of Israel by turning away from the Lord and building an altar for yourselves, so that you are in rebellion against the Lord today?
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2 Samuel 24 16
Then the angel extended his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, but the Lord relented concerning the destruction and said to the angel who was destroying the people,“ Enough, withdraw your hand now!” The angel of the Lord was then at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
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Psalms 119:136
My eyes pour out streams of tears because people do not follow Your instruction.
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1 Samuel 15 3
Now go and attack the Amalekites and completely destroy everything they have. Do not spare them. Kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”
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1 Samuel 15 9
Saul and the troops spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, cattle, and choice animals, as well as the young rams and the best of everything else. They were not willing to destroy them, but they did destroy all the worthless and unwanted things.
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Psalms 36:3
The words of his mouth are malicious and deceptive; he has stopped acting wisely and doing good.
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Jeremiah 9:18
Let them come quickly to raise a lament over us so that our eyes may overflow with tears, our eyelids soaked with weeping.
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Luke 6:12
During those days He went out to the mountain to pray and spent all night in prayer to God.
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Psalms 78:57
They treacherously turned away like their fathers; they became warped like a faulty bow.
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Jeremiah 13:17
But if you will not listen, my innermost being will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, for the Lord’s flock has been taken captive.
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1 Samuel 15 35-1 Samuel 16 1
Even to the day of his death, Samuel never again visited Saul. Samuel mourned for Saul, and the Lord regretted He had made Saul king over Israel.The Lord said to Samuel,“ How long are you going to mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem because I have selected a king from his sons.”
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Psalms 125:5
But as for those who turn aside to crooked ways, the Lord will banish them with the evildoers. Peace be with Israel.
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Matthew 24:13
But the one who endures to the end will be delivered.
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Zephaniah 1:6
and those who turn back from following the Lord, who do not seek the Lord or inquire of Him.
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Hebrews 10:38
But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he draws back, I have no pleasure in him.
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Psalms 110:4
The Lord has sworn an oath and will not take it back:“ Forever, You are a priest like Melchizedek.”
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Psalms 109:4
In return for my love they accuse me, but I continue to pray.
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1 Samuel 12 23
“ As for me, I vow that I will not sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you. I will teach you the good and right way.
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Romans 9:1-3
I speak the truth in Christ— I am not lying; my conscience is testifying to me with the Holy Spirit—that I have intense sorrow and continual anguish in my heart.For I could almost wish to be cursed and cut off from the Messiah for the benefit of my brothers, my own flesh and blood.
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Jeremiah 9:1
If my head were a spring of water, my eyes a fountain of tears, I would weep day and night over the slain of my dear people.
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Jeremiah 18:7-10
At one moment I might announce concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will uproot, tear down, and destroy it.However, if that nation I have made an announcement about turns from its evil, I will relent concerning the disaster I had planned to do to it.At another time I announce that I will build and plant a nation or a kingdom.However, if it does what is evil in My sight by not listening to My voice, I will relent concerning the good I had said I would do to it.
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Amos 7:3
The Lord relented concerning this.“ It will not happen,” He said.
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Jonah 4:2
He prayed to the Lord:“ Please, Lord, isn’t this what I said while I was still in my own country? That’s why I fled toward Tarshish in the first place. I knew that You are a merciful and compassionate God, slow to become angry, rich in faithful love, and One who relents from sending disaster.
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Jonah 3:10
Then God saw their actions— that they had turned from their evil ways— so God relented from the disaster He had threatened to do to them. And He did not do it.
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Matthew 5:44
But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
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Luke 19:41-44
As He approached and saw the city, He wept over it,saying,“ If you knew this day what would bring peace— but now it is hidden from your eyes.For the days will come on you when your enemies will build an embankment against you, surround you, and hem you in on every side.They will crush you and your children within you to the ground, and they will not leave one stone on another in you, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.”
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1 Kings 9 6-1 Kings 9 7
If you or your sons turn away from following Me and do not keep My commands— My statutes that I have set before you— and if you go and serve other gods and worship them,I will cut off Israel from the land I gave them, and I will reject the temple I have sanctified for My name. Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.
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Psalms 78:41
They constantly tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.