Exodus 32:10
10Now therefore alet me alone, that bmy wrath may burn hot against them and cI may consume them, in order that dI may make a great nation of you.”Jeremiah 11:14
14“Therefore edo not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer on their behalf, ffor I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their trouble.Jeremiah 14:11-12
11The Lord said to me: g“Do not pray for the welfare of this people. 12Though they fast, I will not hear their cry, hand though they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them iby the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.”Jeremiah 15:1
The Lord Will Not Relent
1Then the Lord said to me, j“Though kMoses land Samuel mstood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go!Jeremiah 18:20
20 nShould good be repaid with evil?Yet othey have dug a pit for my life.
pRemember how I stood before you
to speak good for them,
to turn away your wrath from them.
Ezekiel 14:14-20
14 qeven if these three men, rNoah, sDaniel, and tJob, were in it, uthey would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness, declares the Lord God.15 v“If I cause wild beasts to pass through the land, and they ravage it, wand it be made desolate, so that no one may pass through because of the beasts, 16even if these three men were in it, xas I live, declares the Lord God, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters. They alone would be delivered, but ythe land would be desolate.
17“Or zif I bring a sword upon that land and say, Let a sword pass through the land, aaand I cut off from it man and beast, 18 abthough these three men were in it, as I live, declares the Lord God, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they alone would be delivered.
19“Or acif I send a pestilence into that land and pour out my wrath upon it with blood, to cut off from it man and beast, 20even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, declares the Lord God, they would deliver neither son nor daughter. They would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness.
1 John 5:16
16If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and adGod ▼▼Greek he
will give him life—to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. afThere is sin that leads to death; agI do not say that one should pray for that.
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