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Lamentations 3:40
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Lamentations 3:40
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40 Let us test and examine our ways
and return to the Lord.(A)
Lamentations 3:40
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Lamentations 3:40
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2 Corinthians 13:5
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2 Corinthians 13:5
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5 Examine yourselves to see whether you are living in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless, indeed, you fail to meet the test!(A)
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2 Corinthians 13:5
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2 Corinthians 13:5
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5 Examine yourselves(A) to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves.(B) Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you(C)—unless, of course, you fail the test?
Psalm 139:23-24
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Psalm 139:23-24
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Joel 2:12-13
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Joel 2:12-13
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12 Yet even now, says the Lord,
return to me with all your heart,
with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;(A)
13 rend your hearts and not your clothing.
Return to the Lord your God,
for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love,
and relenting from punishment.(B)
Joel 2:12-13
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Joel 2:12-13
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Rend Your Heart
Psalm 119:59
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Psalm 119:59
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59 When I think of your ways,
I turn my feet to your decrees;(A)
Psalm 119:59
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Psalm 119:59
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59 I have considered my ways(A)
and have turned my steps to your statutes.
Haggai 1:5-9
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Haggai 1:5-9
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5 Now therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider how you have fared.(A) 6 You have sown much and harvested little; you eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and you that earn wages earn wages to put them into a bag with holes.(B)
7 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider how you have fared. 8 Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be honored, says the Lord.(C) 9 You have looked for much, but it came to little, and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? says the Lord of hosts. Because my house lies in ruins, while all of you hurry off to your own houses.(D)
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Haggai 1:5-9
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Haggai 1:5-9
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5 Now this is what the Lord Almighty says: “Give careful thought(A) to your ways. 6 You have planted much, but harvested little.(B) You eat, but never have enough.(C) You drink, but never have your fill.(D) You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages,(E) only to put them in a purse with holes in it.”
7 This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Give careful thought(F) to your ways. 8 Go up into the mountains and bring down timber(G) and build my house, so that I may take pleasure(H) in it and be honored,(I)” says the Lord. 9 “You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little.(J) What you brought home, I blew(K) away. Why?” declares the Lord Almighty. “Because of my house, which remains a ruin,(L) while each of you is busy with your own house.
Psalm 4:4
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Psalm 4:4
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- 4.4 Or are angry
Psalm 4:4
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Psalm 4:4
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- Psalm 4:4 Or In your anger (see Septuagint)
Hosea 14:1-3
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Hosea 14:1-3
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A Plea for Repentance
14 Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,
for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.(A)
2 Take words with you
and return to the Lord;
say to him,
“Take away all guilt;
accept that which is good,
and we will offer
the fruit[a] of our lips.(B)
3 Assyria shall not save us;
we will not ride upon horses;
we will say no more, ‘Our God,’
to the work of our hands.
In you the orphan finds mercy.”(C)
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- 14.2 Gk Syr: Heb bulls
Hosea 14:1-3
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Hosea 14:1-3
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Repentance to Bring Blessing
14 [a]Return,(A) Israel, to the Lord your God.
Your sins(B) have been your downfall!(C)
2 Take words with you
and return to the Lord.
Say to him:
“Forgive(D) all our sins
and receive us graciously,(E)
that we may offer the fruit of our lips.[b](F)
3 Assyria cannot save us;(G)
we will not mount warhorses.(H)
We will never again say ‘Our gods’(I)
to what our own hands have made,(J)
for in you the fatherless(K) find compassion.”
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- Hosea 14:1 In Hebrew texts 14:1-9 is numbered 14:2-10.
- Hosea 14:2 Or offer our lips as sacrifices of bulls
Isaiah 55:7
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Isaiah 55:7
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7 let the wicked forsake their way
and the unrighteous their thoughts;
let them return to the Lord, that he may have mercy on them,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.(A)
Hosea 6:1
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Hosea 6:1
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A Call to Repentance
6 “Come, let us return to the Lord,
for it is he who has torn, and he will heal us;
he has struck down, and he will bind us up.(A)
Hosea 6:1
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Hosea 6:1
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Israel Unrepentant
2 Chronicles 30:6
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2 Chronicles 30:6
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6 So couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his officials, as the king had commanded, saying, “O people of Israel, return to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that he may turn again to the remnant of you who have escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria.(A)
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2 Chronicles 30:6
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2 Chronicles 30:6
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6 At the king’s command, couriers went throughout Israel and Judah with letters from the king and from his officials, which read:
“People of Israel, return to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, that he may return to you who are left, who have escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria.
1 Corinthians 11:28
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1 Corinthians 11:28
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28 Examine yourselves, and only then eat of the bread and drink of the cup.(A)
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1 Corinthians 11:28
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1 Corinthians 11:28
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28 Everyone ought to examine themselves(A) before they eat of the bread and drink from the cup.
Ezekiel 18:28
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Ezekiel 18:28
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28 Because they considered and turned away from all the transgressions that they had committed, they shall surely live; they shall not die.
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Ezekiel 18:28
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Ezekiel 18:28
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28 Because they consider all the offenses they have committed and turn away from them, that person will surely live; they will not die.(A)
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