Lamentations 3:40
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40 Let us test and examine our ways,
(A)and return to the Lord!
2 Corinthians 13:5
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5 Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. (A)Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that (B)Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!
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Psalm 139:23-24
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23 Search me, O God, and know my heart!
(A)Try me and know my thoughts![a]
24 And see if there be any grievous way in me,
and (B)lead me in (C)the way everlasting![b]
Footnotes
- Psalm 139:23 Or cares
- Psalm 139:24 Or in the ancient way (compare Jeremiah 6:16)
Joel 2:12-13
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Return to the Lord
12 “Yet even now,” declares the Lord,
(A)“return to me with all your heart,
(B)with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
13 and (C)rend your hearts and not (D)your garments.”
Return to the Lord your God,
(E)for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love;
(F)and he relents over disaster.
Psalm 119:59
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59 When I (A)think on my ways,
I turn my feet to your testimonies;
Haggai 1:5-9
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5 Now, therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: (A)Consider your ways. 6 (B)You have sown much, and harvested little. (C)You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who (D)earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.
7 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: (E)Consider your ways. 8 Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that (F)I may take pleasure in it and that (G)I may be glorified, says the Lord. 9 (H)You looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, (I)I blew it away. Why? declares the Lord of hosts. Because of my house (J)that lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house.
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Isaiah 55:7
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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.
Hosea 6:1
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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.
1 Corinthians 11:28
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28 (A)Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.
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Hosea 14:1-3
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A Plea to Return to the Lord
14 (A)Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,
for (B)you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
2 Take with you words
and return to the Lord;
say to him,
“Take away all iniquity;
accept (C)what is good,
and we will pay with bulls
(D)the vows[a] of our lips.
3 (E)Assyria shall not save us;
(F)we will not ride on horses;
and (G)we will say no more, ‘Our God,’
to the work of our hands.
(H)In you the orphan finds mercy.”
Footnotes
- Hosea 14:2 Septuagint, Syriac pay the fruit
1 Corinthians 11:31
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31 (A)But if we judged[a] ourselves truly, we would not be judged.
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- 1 Corinthians 11:31 Or discerned
2 Chronicles 30:6
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6 (A)So couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his princes, as the king had commanded, saying, “O people of Israel, (B)return to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may turn again to the remnant of you who have escaped from the hand of (C)the kings of Assyria.
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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.”
Ezekiel 18:28
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28 Because he considered and turned away from all the transgressions that he had committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
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2 Chronicles 30:9
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9 For (A)if you return to the Lord, your brothers and your children (B)will find compassion with their captors and return to this land. For (C)the Lord your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you, (D)if you return to him.”
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Deuteronomy 4:30
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30 When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you (A)in the latter days, you will return to the Lord your God and obey his voice.
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Zechariah 1:3-4
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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. 4 (C)Do not be like your fathers, (D)to whom the former prophets cried out, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, (E)Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But (F)they did not hear or pay attention to me, declares the Lord.
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Job 34:31-32
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31 “For has anyone said to God,
‘I have borne punishment; I will not offend any more;
32 (A)teach me what I do not see;
if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?
Job 11:13-15
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13 “If you (A)prepare your heart,
you will (B)stretch out your hands toward him.
14 If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away,
and let not injustice dwell in your tents.
15 Surely then you will (C)lift up your face without (D)blemish;
you will be secure and will not fear.
1 Chronicles 15:12-13
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12 and said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites. (A)Consecrate yourselves, you and your brothers, so that you may bring up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, (B)to the place that I have prepared for it. 13 (C)Because you did not carry it the first time, the Lord our God broke out against us, because we did not seek him according to the rule.”
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