Hosea 12:6
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6 “So you, (A)by the help of your God, return,
(B)hold fast to love and justice,
and wait continually for your God.”
Micah 6:8
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8 He has told you, O man, what is good;
and (A)what does the Lord require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness,[a]
and to (B)walk humbly with your God?
Footnotes
- Micah 6:8 Or steadfast love
Micah 7:7
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7 But as for me, I will look to the Lord;
(A)I will wait for the God of my salvation;
my God will hear me.
Hosea 14:1
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A Plea to Return to the Lord
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Zechariah 7:9
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9 “Thus says the Lord of hosts, (A)Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,
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Hosea 6:1-3
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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.
3 (E)Let us know; (F)let us press on to know the Lord;
(G)his going out is sure as the dawn;
he will come to us (H)as the showers,
(I)as the spring rains that water the earth.”
Lamentations 3:25-26
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25 The Lord is good to those who (A)wait for him,
to the soul who seeks him.
26 (B)It is good that one should wait quietly
for the salvation of the Lord.
James 2:13
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13 For (A)judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
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James 1:27
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27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: (A)to visit (B)orphans and widows in their affliction, and (C)to keep oneself (D)unstained from the world.
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Zechariah 8:16
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16 These are the things that you shall do: (A)Speak the truth to one another; (B)render in your gates judgments (C)that are true and make for peace;
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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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Zephaniah 3:8
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8 “Therefore (A)wait for me,” declares the Lord,
“for the day when I rise up to seize the prey.
For my decision is (B)to gather nations,
to assemble kingdoms,
to pour out upon them my indignation,
all my burning anger;
for in the fire of my jealousy
(C)all the earth shall be consumed.
Habakkuk 2:3
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3 For still (A)the vision awaits its appointed time;
it hastens to the end—it will not lie.
If it seems slow, (B)wait for it;
(C)it will surely come; it will not delay.
Amos 5:24
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24 But let justice roll down like waters,
and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Joel 2:13
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13 and (A)rend your hearts and not (B)your garments.”
Return to the Lord your God,
(C)for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love;
(D)and he relents over disaster.
Hosea 10:12
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12 (A)Sow for yourselves righteousness;
reap steadfast love;
(B)break up your fallow ground,
for it is the time to seek the Lord,
that he may come and (C)rain righteousness upon you.
Hosea 4:1
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The Lord Accuses Israel
4 (A)Hear the word of the Lord, O children of Israel,
for (B)the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land.
There is no faithfulness or steadfast love,
and (C)no knowledge of God in the land;
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 22:15
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15 Do you think you are a king
because you compete in cedar?
Did not your father eat and drink
and (A)do justice and righteousness?
(B)Then it was well with him.
Jeremiah 3:14-22
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14 (A)Return, O faithless children,
declares the Lord;
(B)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.
15 “‘And (C)I will give you shepherds after my own heart, (D)who will feed you with knowledge and understanding. 16 And when you have multiplied and been fruitful in the land, in those days, declares the Lord, they shall no more say, “The ark of the covenant of the Lord.” It shall not come to mind or be remembered or missed; it shall not be made again. 17 At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the Lord, (E)and all nations shall gather to it, (F)to the presence of the Lord in Jerusalem, and they shall no more stubbornly follow their own evil heart. 18 (G)In those days the house of Judah shall join the house of Israel, and together they shall come from the land (H)of the north to (I)the land that I gave your fathers for a heritage.
19 “‘I said,
How I would set you among my sons,
and give you a pleasant land,
a heritage most beautiful of all nations.
And I thought you would (J)call me, My Father,
and would not turn from following me.
20 (K)Surely, as a treacherous wife leaves her husband,
so have you been treacherous to me, O house of Israel,
declares the Lord.’”
21 A voice on the (L)bare heights is heard,
(M)the weeping and pleading of Israel's sons
because they have perverted their way;
they have forgotten the Lord their God.
22 (N)“Return, O faithless sons;
(O)I will heal your faithlessness.”
“Behold, we come to you,
for you are the Lord our God.
Isaiah 58:6
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6 “Is not this the fast that I choose:
(A)to loose the bonds of wickedness,
to undo the straps (B)of the yoke,
to let the oppressed[a] go free,
and to break every yoke?
Footnotes
- Isaiah 58:6 Or bruised
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.
Isaiah 40:31
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31 but (A)they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings (B)like eagles;
they shall run and not be weary;
they shall walk and not faint.
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