1 Samuel 7:3
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Samuel Judges Israel
3 And Samuel said to all the house of Israel, (A)“If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, then (B)put away the foreign gods and the (C)Ashtaroth from among you and (D)direct your heart to the Lord (E)and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”
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Luke 4:8
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8 And Jesus answered him, (A)“It is written,
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Deuteronomy 13:4
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4 You shall (A)walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and (B)hold fast to him.
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Matthew 4:10
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10 Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, (A)Satan! For (B)it is written,
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Deuteronomy 6:13
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13 It is (A)the Lord your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve and (B)by his name you shall swear.
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Isaiah 55:7
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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.
Joshua 24:14
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Choose Whom You Will Serve
14 (A)“Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. (B)Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.
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Joshua 24:23
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23 He said, “Then (A)put away the foreign gods that are among you, and incline your heart to the Lord, the God of Israel.”
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John 4:24
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24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
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Deuteronomy 10:20
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20 (A)You shall fear the Lord your God. You shall serve him and (B)hold fast to him, and (C)by his name you shall swear.
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Joel 2:12-13
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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;
13 and (C)rend your hearts and not (D)your garments.”
Return to the Lord your God,
(E)for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love;
(F)and he relents over disaster.
1 Kings 8:48
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48 (A)if they repent with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you (B)toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city that you have chosen, and the house that I have built for your name,
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Hosea 6:1-2
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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.
2 After two days (D)he will revive us;
on the third day he will raise us up,
that we may live before him.
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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Matthew 6:24
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24 (A)“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and (B)money.[a]
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- Matthew 6:24 Greek mammon, a Semitic word for money or possessions
Matthew 15:8
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8 (A)“‘This people honors me with their lips,
but their heart is far from me;
Judges 10:6
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Further Disobedience and Oppression
6 (A)The people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord (B)and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, (C)the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. And they (D)forsook the Lord and did not serve him.
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1 Chronicles 22:19
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19 Now (A)set your mind and heart to seek the Lord your God. Arise and build the sanctuary of the Lord God, (B)so that the ark of the covenant of the Lord and the holy vessels of God may be brought into a house built (C)for the name of the Lord.”
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Jeremiah 4:3-4
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3 For thus says the Lord to the men of Judah and Jerusalem:
(A)“Break up your fallow ground,
and (B)sow not among thorns.
4 (C)Circumcise yourselves to the Lord;
remove the foreskin of your hearts,
O men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem;
(D)lest my wrath go forth like fire,
and burn with none to quench it,
(E)because of the evil of your deeds.”
Genesis 35:2
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2 So Jacob said to his (A)household and to all who were with him, “Put away (B)the foreign gods that are among you and (C)purify yourselves and change your garments.
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Ezekiel 18:31
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31 (A)Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and (B)make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! (C)Why will you die, O house of Israel?
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1 Chronicles 28:9
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David's Charge to Solomon
9 “And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a (A)whole heart and with a willing mind, (B)for the Lord searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. (C)If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
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Job 11:13-14
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13 “If you (A)prepare your heart,
you will (B)stretch out your hands toward him.
14 If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away,
and let not injustice dwell in your tents.
Proverbs 16:1
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16 The plans of the heart belong to man,
but (A)the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.
2 Chronicles 19:3
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3 Nevertheless, (A)some good is found in you, for (B)you destroyed the Asheroth out of the land, and have (C)set your heart to seek God.”
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