...who hast compassion on all men, and hatest nothing that Thou hast made: Who wouldest not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live: Mercifully forgive us our trespasses; receive and comfort all who are grieved and wearied with the...

...constituted beings God is just, in the deeper meaning of that term, and ' desire th not the death of a sinner but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live.' God is love, because it is unthinkable that the love we feel is greater than the love we ought to trust....

...escape capital punishment. His master dissented in biblical phrase : "God willeth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live." Pritchard lived, but the evidence of his turning from his wickedness is not forthcoming. Dumas decided...

...of men falling into error is congenial with the benevolent doctrines which " desire not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live," this is not the place to inquire. Scurvy is obviously a symptom of bad nutriment — the blood being...

...command of Christ; and was then left to the care and keeping of Him, " who willeth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live." The following morning, before the clergyman left the town, he called to see his dying brother; and...

...a tooth for a tooth." It believes, as the prayer book puts it, that God "desireth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live." A redeemed sinner may be a more positive incentive toward good living than a dead gangster. The code...

...shall not be your ruin" [cf. Zech. 1:4; Ezek. 18:30]. "As I live, saith the Lord, I have no pleasure in the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn and live" [cf. Ezek. 33:11]. O make haste: delay not the time! "Come, and let us reason together. Though...

...on man's weakness and spares him the full deserts of his disobedience. God "desires not the death of a sinner but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live."2 Christianity also inherited from Judaism the belief that at the end of history God will come...

...campaign against capital punishment, who advocated 'the mild doctrine, which desires not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live.' Yet Mackintosh also recognized a role for severity and deterrence in punishment, observing that punishments...

...my sins and the multitude of my faults. O pitying and merciful Father, who wouldest not the death of a sinner but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live, O God have mercy upon me and pardon all my sins; for I unworthy entreat Thee, O Father of all Creatures,...