For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. Malachi iii. 6. Every good gift, and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the father of lights, with whom is no variableness neither shadow of turning. James i. 17. God is not a man, that he should lie, neither the son of man, that he should repent; hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? Numbers xxiii. 19. 121. And the Lord said, I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth, both man and beast, and the creeping, things, and the fowls of the air: for it repenteth me that I have made them. Genesis vi. 7. 122. And the Lord repented of the evil which he had thought to do unto his people. Exodus xxxii. 14. 123 It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments, and it grieved Samuel, and he cried unto the Lord all night. 1 Samuel xv. 11. 124. And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, it is enough; stay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing-place of Araunah the Jebusite. 2 Sam. xxiv. 16. 125. If that nation against whom I have pronounced turn from their evil. I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them. If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good wherewith I said I would benefit them. Jer. xviii. 8; 10. 126. For thus saith the Lord, like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them the good which I have promised them. Jeremiah xxxii. 42. 127. And rend your heart and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. Joel ii. 13. 128. And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil that he had said he would do unto them; and he did it not. Jonah iii. 10. 129. Thou hast forsaken me, saith the Lord, thou art gone backward; therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting. Jeremiah xv. 6. Also notes 14, 26 and 167. |