¹⁴ For we ^(A)will surely die and become like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not ^(B)take away a life; but He ^(C)devises means, so that His banished ones are not ^[a]expelled from Him.

^23 (A)Do I have any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?” says the Lord God, “and not that he should turn from his ways and live?

³² For ^(A)I have no pleasure in the death of one who dies,” says the Lord God. “Therefore turn and ^(B)live!”

^9 (A)The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but ^(B)is longsuffering toward ^[a]us, ^(C)not willing that any should perish but ^(D)that all should come to repentance.