God’s Call for Repentance

¹⁰ God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways^(A)—so God relented from the disaster^(B) he had threatened them with. And he did not do it.

² He prayed to the Lord,^(A) “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.^(B) I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God,^(C) slow to anger, abounding in faithful love, and one who relents from sending disaster.^(D)

³¹ because he has set a day when he is going to judge the world in righteousness by the man he has appointed. He has provided proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.”^(A)

⁴ Or do you despise the riches of his kindness,^(A) restraint,^(B) and patience,^(C) not recognizing^[a] that God’s kindness^(D) is intended to lead you to repentance?