Job 8:5
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5 (A)If you would earnestly seek God
And make your supplication to the Almighty,
James 4:7-10
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Humility Cures Worldliness
7 Therefore submit to God. (A)Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 8 (B)Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. (C)Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and (D)purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 (E)Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 (F)Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.
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Hebrews 3:7-8
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Be Faithful(A)
7 Therefore, as (B)the Holy Spirit says:
(C)“Today, if you will hear His voice,
8 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
In the day of trial in the wilderness,
Job 11:13
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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.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 55:7 Lit. man of iniquity
Matthew 7:7-8
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Keep Asking, Seeking, Knocking(A)
7 (B)“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For (C)everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
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2 Chronicles 33:12-13
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12 Now when he was in affliction, he implored the Lord his God, and (A)humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, 13 and prayed to Him; and He (B)received his entreaty, heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh (C)knew that the Lord was God.
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Job 22:21-30
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21 “Now acquaint yourself with Him, and (A)be at peace;
Thereby good will come to you.
22 Receive, please, (B)instruction from His mouth,
And (C)lay up His words in your heart.
23 If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up;
You will remove iniquity far from your tents.
24 Then you will (D)lay your gold in the dust,
And the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.
25 Yes, the Almighty will be your [a]gold
And your precious silver;
26 For then you will have your (E)delight in the Almighty,
And lift up your face to God.
27 (F)You will make your prayer to Him,
He will hear you,
And you will pay your vows.
28 You will also declare a thing,
And it will be established for you;
So light will shine on your ways.
29 When they cast you down, and you say, ‘Exaltation will come!’
Then (G)He will save the humble person.
30 He will even deliver one who is not innocent;
Yes, he will be delivered by the purity of your hands.”
Job 5:8
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8 “But as for me, I would seek God,
And to God I would commit my cause—
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