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Hosea 10:12
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Hosea 10:12
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12 I said, ‘Plant the good seeds of righteousness,
and you will harvest a crop of love.
Plow up the hard ground of your hearts,
for now is the time to seek the Lord,
that he may come
and shower righteousness upon you.’
Jeremiah 4:3-4
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Jeremiah 4:3-4
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Coming Judgment against Judah
3 This is what the Lord says to the people of Judah and Jerusalem:
“Plow up the hard ground of your hearts!
Do not waste your good seed among thorns.
4 O people of Judah and Jerusalem,
surrender your pride and power.
Change your hearts before the Lord,[a]
or my anger will burn like an unquenchable fire
because of all your sins.
Footnotes
- 4:4 Hebrew Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your heart.
Jeremiah 4:3-4
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Jeremiah 4:3-4
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3 This is what the Lord says to the people of Judah and to Jerusalem:
“Break up your unplowed ground(A)
and do not sow among thorns.(B)
4 Circumcise yourselves to the Lord,
circumcise your hearts,(C)
you people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem,
or my wrath(D) will flare up and burn like fire(E)
because of the evil(F) you have done—
burn with no one to quench(G) it.
Isaiah 45:8
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Isaiah 45:8
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8 “Open up, O heavens,
and pour out your righteousness.
Let the earth open wide
so salvation and righteousness can sprout up together.
I, the Lord, created them.
Isaiah 45:8
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Isaiah 45:8
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James 3:18
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James 3:18
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18 And those who are peacemakers will plant seeds of peace and reap a harvest of righteousness.[a]
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- 3:18 Or of good things, or of justice.
James 3:18
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James 3:18
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Proverbs 11:18
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Proverbs 11:18
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18 Evil people get rich for the moment,
but the reward of the godly will last.
Proverbs 11:18
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Proverbs 11:18
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18 A wicked person earns deceptive wages,
but the one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.(A)
Hosea 6:3
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Hosea 6:3
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3 Oh, that we might know the Lord!
Let us press on to know him.
He will respond to us as surely as the arrival of dawn
or the coming of rains in early spring.”
Hosea 6:3
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Hosea 6:3
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Isaiah 55:6
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Isaiah 55:6
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6 Seek the Lord while you can find him.
Call on him now while he is near.
Isaiah 55:6
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Isaiah 55:6
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Jeremiah 29:12-14
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Jeremiah 29:12-14
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12 In those days when you pray, I will listen. 13 If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me. 14 I will be found by you,” says the Lord. “I will end your captivity and restore your fortunes. I will gather you out of the nations where I sent you and will bring you home again to your own land.”
Jeremiah 29:12-14
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Jeremiah 29:12-14
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12 Then you will call(A) on me and come and pray(B) to me, and I will listen(C) to you. 13 You will seek(D) me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.(E) 14 I will be found by you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back(F) from captivity.[a] I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile.”(G)
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 29:14 Or will restore your fortunes
Isaiah 44:3
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Isaiah 44:3
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3 For I will pour out water to quench your thirst
and to irrigate your parched fields.
And I will pour out my Spirit on your descendants,
and my blessing on your children.
Ecclesiastes 11:6
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Ecclesiastes 11:6
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6 Plant your seed in the morning and keep busy all afternoon, for you don’t know if profit will come from one activity or another—or maybe both.
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Ecclesiastes 11:6
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Ecclesiastes 11:6
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6 Sow your seed in the morning,
and at evening let your hands not be idle,(A)
for you do not know which will succeed,
whether this or that,
or whether both will do equally well.
Zephaniah 2:1-3
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Zephaniah 2:1-3
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A Call to Repentance
2 Gather together—yes, gather together,
you shameless nation.
2 Gather before judgment begins,
before your time to repent is blown away like chaff.
Act now, before the fierce fury of the Lord falls
and the terrible day of the Lord’s anger begins.
3 Seek the Lord, all who are humble,
and follow his commands.
Seek to do what is right
and to live humbly.
Perhaps even yet the Lord will protect you—
protect you from his anger on that day of destruction.
Zephaniah 2:1-3
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Zephaniah 2:1-3
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Judah and Jerusalem Judged Along With the Nations
Judah Summoned to Repent
2 Gather together,(A) gather yourselves together,
you shameful(B) nation,
2 before the decree takes effect
and that day passes like windblown chaff,(C)
before the Lord’s fierce anger(D)
comes upon you,
before the day of the Lord’s wrath(E)
comes upon you.
3 Seek(F) the Lord, all you humble of the land,
you who do what he commands.
Seek righteousness,(G) seek humility;(H)
perhaps you will be sheltered(I)
on the day of the Lord’s anger.
Luke 13:24
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Luke 13:24
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24 “Work hard to enter the narrow door to God’s Kingdom, for many will try to enter but will fail.
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Luke 13:24
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Luke 13:24
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24 “Make every effort to enter through the narrow door,(A) because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.
Amos 5:15
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Amos 5:15
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15 Hate evil and love what is good;
turn your courts into true halls of justice.
Perhaps even yet the Lord God of Heaven’s Armies
will have mercy on the remnant of his people.[a]
Footnotes
- 5:15 Hebrew the remnant of Joseph.
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