Deuteronomy 4:29
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29 (A)But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
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Jeremiah 29:12-14
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12 Then you will (A)call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will (B)listen to you. 13 And (C)you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me (D)with all your heart. 14 (E)I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back from your captivity; (F)I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the Lord, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive.
Psalm 119:2
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2 Blessed are those who keep His testimonies,
Who seek Him with the (A)whole heart!
2 Chronicles 15:4
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4 but (A)when in their trouble they turned to the Lord God of Israel, and sought Him, He was found by them.
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Isaiah 55:6-7
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6 (A)Seek the Lord while He may be (B)found,
Call upon Him while He is near.
7 (C)Let the [a]wicked forsake his way,
And the unrighteous man (D)his thoughts;
Let him return to the Lord,
(E)And He will have mercy on him;
And to our God,
For He will abundantly pardon.
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- Isaiah 55:7 Lit. man of iniquity
Psalm 119:10
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10 With my whole heart I have (A)sought You;
Oh, let me not wander from Your commandments!
Jeremiah 3:12-14
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12 Go and proclaim these words toward (A)the north, and say:
‘Return, backsliding Israel,’ says the Lord;
‘I will not cause My anger to fall on you.
For I am (B)merciful,’ says the Lord;
‘I will not remain angry forever.
13 (C)Only acknowledge your iniquity,
That you have transgressed against the Lord your God,
And have (D)scattered your [a]charms
To (E)alien deities (F)under every green tree,
And you have not obeyed My voice,’ says the Lord.
14 “Return, O backsliding children,” says the Lord; (G)“for I am married to you. I will take you, (H)one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to (I)Zion.
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- Jeremiah 3:13 Lit. ways
Deuteronomy 30:10
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10 if you obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
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1 Kings 8:47-48
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47 (A)yet when they [a]come to themselves in the land where they were carried captive, and repent, and make supplication to You in the land of those who took them captive, (B)saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong, we have committed wickedness’; 48 and when they (C)return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who led them away captive, and (D)pray to You toward their land which You gave to their fathers, the city which You have chosen and the temple which I have built for Your name:
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- 1 Kings 8:47 Lit. bring back to their heart
Deuteronomy 30:1-3
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The Blessing of Returning to God
30 “Now (A)it shall come to pass, when (B)all these things come upon you, the blessing and the (C)curse which I have set before you, and (D)you [a]call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God drives you, 2 and you (E)return to the Lord your God and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul, 3 (F)that the Lord your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and (G)gather you again from all the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you.
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- Deuteronomy 30:1 Lit. cause them to return to your heart
Joel 2:12
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A Call to Repentance
12 “Now, therefore,” says the Lord,
(A)“Turn to Me with all your heart,
With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.”
Psalm 119:145
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ק QOPH
145 I cry out with my whole heart;
Hear me, O Lord!
I will keep Your statutes.
Psalm 119:58
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58 I entreated Your favor with my whole heart;
Be merciful to me according to Your word.
Leviticus 26:39-42
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39 And those of you who are left (A)shall [a]waste away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands;
also in their (B)fathers’ iniquities, which are with them, they shall waste away.
40 ‘But (C)if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me,
41 and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies;
if their (D)uncircumcised hearts are (E)humbled, and they (F)accept their guilt—
42 then I will (G)remember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will remember;
I will (H)remember the land.
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- Leviticus 26:39 rot away
Jeremiah 3:10
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10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me (A)with her whole heart, but in pretense,” says the Lord.
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2 Chronicles 31:21
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21 And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, in the law and in the commandment, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart. So he (A)prospered.
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2 Chronicles 15:15
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15 And all Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart and (A)sought Him with all their soul; and He was found by them, and the Lord gave them (B)rest all around.
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2 Chronicles 15:12
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12 Then they (A)entered into a covenant to seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;
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2 Kings 23:3
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3 Then the king (A)stood by a pillar and made a (B)covenant before the Lord, to follow the Lord and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people took a stand for the covenant.
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Nehemiah 1:9
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9 (A)but if you return to Me, and keep My commandments and do them, (B)though some of you were cast out to the farthest part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there, and bring them to the place which I have chosen as a dwelling for My name.’
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2 Kings 10:31
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31 But Jehu [a]took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart; for he did not depart from (A)the sins of Jeroboam, who had made Israel sin.
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- 2 Kings 10:31 was not careful
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