Jonah 3:8-10
"8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God; yes, let every one turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands. 9 Who can tell if God will turn and relent, and turn away from His fierce anger, so that we may not perish?
"8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God; yes, let every one turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands. 9 Who can tell if God will turn and relent, and turn away from His fierce anger, so that we may not perish?
10 Then God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God relented from the disaster that He had said He would bring upon them, and He did not do it."
Repentance from the things God has declared to be morally wrong, sin, means to turn from them and toward doing what is right according to His standards (not ours either by choice or vote). When those of Nineveh saw this, they turned and God chose not to punish them. So in Christ we can be forgiven and the destruction passed over us by His payment for us. We are sinners in the hand of the angry God apart from Jesus. In Him we find God's favor forever.
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