Zechariah 1:3
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3 Therefore say to them, Thus declares the Lord of hosts: (A)Return to me, says the Lord of hosts, and (B)I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts.
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Malachi 3:7
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7 (A)From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. (B)Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. (C)But you say, ‘How shall we return?’
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Jeremiah 3:22
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22 (A)“Return, O faithless sons;
(B)I will heal your faithlessness.”
“Behold, we come to you,
for you are the Lord our God.
Jeremiah 4:1
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4 “If you return, O Israel,
declares the Lord,
(A)to me you should return.
If you remove your detestable things from my presence,
(B)and do not waver,
Deuteronomy 30:2-10
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2 and (A)return to the Lord your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your soul, 3 then the Lord your God (B)will restore your fortunes and have mercy on you, and he will (C)gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you. 4 (D)If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there he will take you. 5 And the Lord your God will bring you into the land that your fathers possessed, that you may possess it. (E)And he will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers. 6 And (F)the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, (G)so that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live. 7 And the Lord your God will put all these curses on your foes and enemies who persecuted you. 8 And you shall again obey the voice of the Lord and keep all his commandments that I command you today. 9 (H)The Lord your God will make you abundantly prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your cattle and in the fruit of your ground. (I)For the Lord will again take delight in prospering you, as he took delight in your fathers, 10 when you obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, when you turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
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Joel 2:12
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Return to the Lord
12 “Yet even now,” declares the Lord,
(A)“return to me with all your heart,
(B)with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
Jeremiah 12:15
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15 And after I have plucked them up, I will again have compassion on them, (A)and I will bring them again each to his heritage and each to his land.
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Isaiah 31:6
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6 (A)Turn to him from whom people[a] have (B)deeply revolted, O children of Israel.
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- Isaiah 31:6 Hebrew they
James 4:8-10
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8 (A)Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. (B)Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and (C)purify your hearts, (D)you double-minded. 9 (E)Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 (F)Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
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Hosea 14:4
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Hosea 6:1
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Israel and Judah Are Unrepentant
6 “Come, let us (A)return to the Lord;
for (B)he has torn us, that he may heal us;
he has struck us down, and (C)he will bind us up.
Ezekiel 33:11
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11 Say to them, (A)As I live, declares the Lord God, (B)I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; (C)turn back, turn back from your evil ways, (D)for why will you die, O house of Israel?
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Lamentations 3:39-41
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39 (A)Why should a living man complain,
a man, about the punishment of his sins?
40 Let us test and examine our ways,
(B)and return to the Lord!
41 (C)Let us lift up our hearts and hands
to God in heaven:
Jeremiah 35:15
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15 I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, sending them (A)persistently, saying, (B)‘Turn now every one of you from his evil way, and amend your deeds, and (C)do not go after other gods to serve them, and then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to you and your fathers.’ (D)But you did not incline your ear or listen to me.
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Jeremiah 29:12-14
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12 (A)Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, (B)and I will hear you. 13 (C)You will seek me and find me, when you seek me (D)with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you, declares the Lord, (E)and I will restore your fortunes and (F)gather you from all the nations and all the places (G)where I have driven you, declares the Lord, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.
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Jeremiah 25:5
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5 saying, (A)‘Turn now, every one of you, (B)from his evil way and evil deeds, and (C)dwell upon the land that the Lord has given to you and your fathers from of old and forever.
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Isaiah 55:6-7
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6 (A)“Seek the Lord while he may be found;
call upon him while he is near;
7 let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Deuteronomy 4:30-31
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30 When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you (A)in the latter days, you will return to the Lord your God and obey his voice. 31 For the Lord your God is (B)a merciful God. (C)He will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that he swore to them.
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Luke 15:18-22
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18 I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, (A)I have sinned against (B)heaven and before you. 19 (C)I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me as one of your hired servants.”’ 20 And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and (D)ran and (E)embraced him and (F)kissed him. 21 And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. (G)I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’[a] 22 But the father said to his servants,[b] ‘Bring quickly (H)the best robe, and put it on him, and put (I)a ring on his hand, and (J)shoes on his feet.
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- Luke 15:21 Some manuscripts add treat me as one of your hired servants
- Luke 15:22 Or bondservants
Micah 7:19-20
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19 He will (A)again have compassion on us;
(B)he will tread our iniquities underfoot.
(C)You will cast all our[a] sins
into the depths of the sea.
20 (D)You will show faithfulness to Jacob
and steadfast love to Abraham,
(E)as you have sworn to our fathers
from the days of old.
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- Micah 7:19 Hebrew their
Hosea 14:1
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A Plea to Return to the Lord
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Jeremiah 3:12-14
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12 Go, and proclaim these words toward (A)the north, and say,
(B)“‘Return, faithless Israel,
declares the Lord.
I will not look on you in anger,
for (C)I am merciful,
declares the Lord;
(D)I will not be angry forever.
13 (E)Only acknowledge your guilt,
that you rebelled against the Lord your God
and scattered your favors among foreigners under (F)every green tree,
and that you have not obeyed my voice,
declares the Lord.
14 (G)Return, O faithless children,
declares the Lord;
(H)for I am your master;
I will take you, one from a city and two from a family,
and I will bring you to Zion.
Nehemiah 9:28
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28 (A)But after they had rest they did evil again before you, and you abandoned them to the hand of their enemies, so that they had dominion over them. Yet when they turned and cried to you, you heard from heaven, (B)and many times you delivered them according to your mercies.
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2 Chronicles 30:6-9
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6 (A)So couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his princes, as the king had commanded, saying, “O people of Israel, (B)return to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may turn again to the remnant of you who have escaped from the hand of (C)the kings of Assyria. 7 (D)Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were faithless to the Lord God of their fathers, so that he made them a desolation, as you see. 8 (E)Do not now be stiff-necked as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the Lord and come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever, and serve the Lord your God, (F)that his fierce anger may turn away from you. 9 For (G)if you return to the Lord, your brothers and your children (H)will find compassion with their captors and return to this land. For (I)the Lord your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you, (J)if you return to him.”
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2 Chronicles 15:4
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4 (A)but when in their distress they turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.
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