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.
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
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