Ezekiel 18:23
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23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord God: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?
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Ezekiel 18:30-32
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30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord God. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
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Jeremiah 29:11
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11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
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Jeremiah 29:12
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12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
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