Malachi 3:7
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7 (A)From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. (B)Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. (C)But you say, ‘How shall we return?’
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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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Romans 10:21
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21 But of Israel he says, (A)“All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”
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Deuteronomy 31:20
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James 4:8
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8 (A)Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. (B)Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and (C)purify your hearts, (D)you double-minded.
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Romans 10:3
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3 For, being ignorant of (A)the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.
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Hosea 14:1
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A Plea to Return to the Lord
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Jeremiah 3:12-14
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12 Go, and proclaim these words toward (A)the north, and say,
(B)“‘Return, faithless Israel,
declares the Lord.
I will not look on you in anger,
for (C)I am merciful,
declares the Lord;
(D)I will not be angry forever.
13 (E)Only acknowledge your guilt,
that you rebelled against the Lord your God
and scattered your favors among foreigners under (F)every green tree,
and that you have not obeyed my voice,
declares the Lord.
14 (G)Return, O faithless children,
declares the Lord;
(H)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.
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.
Nehemiah 9:28-30
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28 (A)But after they had rest they did evil again before you, and you abandoned them to the hand of their enemies, so that they had dominion over them. Yet when they turned and cried to you, you heard from heaven, (B)and many times you delivered them according to your mercies. 29 (C)And you warned them in order to turn them back to your law. Yet (D)they acted presumptuously and did not obey your commandments, but sinned against your rules, (E)which if a person does them, he shall live by them, (F)and they turned a stubborn shoulder (G)and stiffened their neck and would not obey. 30 Many years (H)you bore with them (I)and warned them (J)by your Spirit through your prophets. (K)Yet they would not give ear. (L)Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
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Leviticus 26:40-42
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40 “But if (A)they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they (B)committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me, 41 so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies—if then their (C)uncircumcised heart is (D)humbled and they make amends for their iniquity, 42 then I will (E)remember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will (F)remember the land.
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Luke 15:16
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16 And he (A)was longing to be fed with the pods that the pigs ate, and no one gave him anything.
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Jeremiah 3:22
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22 (A)“Return, O faithless sons;
(B)I will heal your faithlessness.”
“Behold, we come to you,
for you are the Lord our God.
Deuteronomy 4:29-31
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29 (A)But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul. 30 When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you (B)in the latter days, you will return to the Lord your God and obey his voice. 31 For the Lord your God is (C)a merciful God. (D)He will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that he swore to them.
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Luke 11:48-51
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48 (A)So you are witnesses and you (B)consent to the deeds of (C)your fathers, for they killed them, and you build their tombs. 49 Therefore also (D)the Wisdom of God said, (E)‘I will send them (F)prophets and apostles, (G)some of whom they will (H)kill and persecute,’ 50 so that (I)the blood of all the prophets, shed (J)from the foundation of the world, may be (K)charged against this generation, 51 from the blood of (L)Abel to the blood of (M)Zechariah, who perished between (N)the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be (O)required of this generation.
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Matthew 23:27
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27 (A)“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like (B)whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people's bones and (C)all uncleanness.
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Malachi 1:6
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The Priests' Polluted Offerings
6 (A)“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am (B)a father, where is my honor? And if I am (C)a master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. (D)But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’
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Ezekiel 20:28
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28 For when I had brought them into the land that (A)I swore to give them, then wherever they saw (B)any high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices and there they presented (C)the provocation of their offering; there they sent up their pleasing aromas, and there they poured out their drink offerings.
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Ezekiel 20:21
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21 (A)But the children (B)rebelled against me. (C)They did not walk in my statutes and were not careful to obey my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; they profaned my Sabbaths.
(D)“Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness.
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Ezekiel 20:13
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13 (A)But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. (B)They did not walk in my statutes but rejected my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; (C)and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned.
(D)“Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make a full end of them.
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Ezekiel 20:8
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8 (A)But they rebelled against me and were not willing to listen to me. (B)None of them cast away the detestable things their eyes feasted on, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt.
“Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them (C)and spend my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
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Ezekiel 18:30-32
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30 “Therefore (A)I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, declares the Lord God. (B)Repent and turn from all your transgressions, (C)lest iniquity be your ruin.[a] 31 (D)Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and (E)make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! (F)Why will you die, O house of Israel? 32 (G)For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord God; (H)so turn, and live.”
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- Ezekiel 18:30 Or lest iniquity be your stumbling block
Isaiah 65:2
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2 (A)I spread out my hands all the day
to a rebellious people,
who walk in a way that is not good,
following their own devices;
Psalm 78:8-10
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8 and that they should not be (A)like their fathers,
(B)a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation (C)whose heart was not steadfast,
whose spirit was not faithful to God.
9 The Ephraimites, armed with[a] the bow,
(D)turned back on the day of battle.
10 They (E)did not keep God's covenant,
but refused to walk according to his law.
Footnotes
- Psalm 78:9 Hebrew armed and shooting
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