Deuteronomy 30:2
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2 and return to the Lord your God, and you and your children obey him with all your heart and with all your soul, just as I am commanding you today,(A)
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Joel 2:12-13
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12 Yet even now, says the Lord,
return to me with all your heart,
with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;(A)
13 rend your hearts and not your clothing.
Return to the Lord your God,
for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love,
and relenting from punishment.(B)
Nehemiah 1:9
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9 but if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts are under the farthest skies, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place where I have chosen to establish my name.’(A)
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Deuteronomy 4:28-31
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28 There you will serve gods made by human hands, objects of wood and stone that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.(A) 29 From there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find him if you search after him with all your heart and soul.(B) 30 In your distress, when all these things have happened to you in time to come, you will return to the Lord your God and heed him. 31 Because the Lord your God is a merciful God, he will neither abandon you nor destroy you; he will not forget the covenant with your ancestors that he swore to them.(C)
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Lamentations 3:40
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40 Let us test and examine our ways
and return to the Lord.(A)
1 John 1:9
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9 If we confess our sins, he who is faithful and just will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.(A)
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Ephesians 6:24
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24 Grace be with all who have an undying love for[a] our Lord Jesus Christ.[b]
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2 Corinthians 3:16
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16 but when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.(A)
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Zechariah 12:10
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Mourning for the Pierced One
10 And I will pour out a spirit of compassion and supplication on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem so that, when they look on the one[a] whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him as one mourns for an only child and weep bitterly over him as one weeps over a firstborn.(A)
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- 12.10 Heb on me
Hosea 14:1-3
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A Plea for Repentance
14 Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,
for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.(A)
2 Take words with you
and return to the Lord;
say to him,
“Take away all guilt;
accept that which is good,
and we will offer
the fruit[a] of our lips.(B)
3 Assyria shall not save us;
we will not ride upon horses;
we will say no more, ‘Our God,’
to the work of our hands.
In you the orphan finds mercy.”(C)
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- 14.2 Gk Syr: Heb bulls
Hosea 6:1-2
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A Call to Repentance
6 “Come, let us return to the Lord,
for it is he who has torn, and he will heal us;
he has struck down, and he will bind us up.(A)
2 After two days he will revive us;
on the third day he will raise us up,
that we may live before him.
Hosea 3:5
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5 Afterward the Israelites shall return and seek the Lord their God and David their king; they shall come in awe to the Lord and to his goodness in the latter days.(A)
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Lamentations 3:32
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32 Although he causes grief, he will have compassion
according to the abundance of his steadfast love;(A)
Jeremiah 29:13
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13 When you search for me, you will find me; if you seek me with all your heart,(A)
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Jeremiah 4:14
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14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart clean of wickedness
so that you may be saved.
How long shall your evil schemes
lodge within you?(A)
Jeremiah 3:10
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10 Yet for all this her false sister Judah did not return to me with her whole heart but only in pretense, says the Lord.(A)
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Isaiah 55:6-7
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6 Seek the Lord while he may be found;
call upon him while he is near;(A)
7 let the wicked forsake their way
and the unrighteous their thoughts;
let them return to the Lord, that he may have mercy on them,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.(B)
Psalm 119:80
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80 May my heart be blameless in your statutes,
so that I may not be put to shame.
Psalm 41:12
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12 But you have upheld me because of my integrity
and set me in your presence forever.(A)
1 Chronicles 29:17
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17 I know, my God, that you search the heart and take pleasure in uprightness; in the uprightness of my heart I have freely offered all these things, and now I have seen your people who are present here offering freely and joyously to you.(A)
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1 Chronicles 29:9
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9 Then the people rejoiced because these had given willingly, for with single mind they had offered freely to the Lord; King David also rejoiced greatly.(A)
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Deuteronomy 13:3
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3 you must not heed the words of those prophets or those who divine by dreams, for the Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you indeed love the Lord your God with all your heart and soul.(A)
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Deuteronomy 6:5
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5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.(A)
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