Deuteronomy 30:2
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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,
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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.
Nehemiah 1:9
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9 (A)but if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, (B)though your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there I will gather them and bring them (C)to the place that I have chosen, to make my name dwell there.’
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Deuteronomy 4:28-31
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28 And (A)there you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of human hands, (B)that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. 29 (C)But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul. 30 When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you (D)in the latter days, you will return to the Lord your God and obey his voice. 31 For the Lord your God is (E)a merciful God. (F)He will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that he swore to them.
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Lamentations 3:40
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40 Let us test and examine our ways,
(A)and return to the Lord!
1 John 1:9
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9 (A)If we confess our sins, he is (B)faithful and just to forgive us our sins and (C)to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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Ephesians 6:24
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24 Grace be with all who (A)love our Lord Jesus Christ with love incorruptible.
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2 Corinthians 3:16
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16 But when (A)one[a] turns to the Lord, (B)the veil is removed.
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- 2 Corinthians 3:16 Greek he
Zechariah 12:10
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Him Whom They Have Pierced
10 “And (A)I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and (B)pleas for mercy, so that, (C)when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, (D)they shall mourn for him, (E)as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.
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Hosea 14:1-3
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A Plea to Return to the Lord
14 (A)Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,
for (B)you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
2 Take with you words
and return to the Lord;
say to him,
“Take away all iniquity;
accept (C)what is good,
and we will pay with bulls
(D)the vows[a] of our lips.
3 (E)Assyria shall not save us;
(F)we will not ride on horses;
and (G)we will say no more, ‘Our God,’
to the work of our hands.
(H)In you the orphan finds mercy.”
Footnotes
- Hosea 14:2 Septuagint, Syriac pay the fruit
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.
Lamentations 3:32
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32 but, though he (A)cause grief, (B)he will have compassion
(C)according to the abundance of his steadfast love;
Jeremiah 29:13
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13 (A)You will seek me and find me, when you seek me (B)with all your heart.
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Jeremiah 4:14
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14 O Jerusalem, (A)wash your heart from evil,
that you may be saved.
How long shall your wicked thoughts
lodge within you?
Jeremiah 3:10
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10 Yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to me (A)with her whole heart, but in pretense, declares the Lord.”
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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.
Psalm 119:80
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Psalm 41:12
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1 Chronicles 29:17
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17 I know, my God, (A)that you test the heart and (B)have 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.
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1 Chronicles 29:9
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9 Then the people rejoiced because they had given willingly, for with a (A)whole heart they had offered freely to the Lord. David the king also rejoiced greatly.
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Deuteronomy 13:3
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3 you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord your God (A)is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
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Deuteronomy 6:5
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5 You (A)shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
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