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Ezekiel 33:11
Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, I have no pleasure in the death of the evil-doer; it is more pleasing to me if he is turned from his way and has life: be turned, be turned from your evil ways; why are you looking for death, O children of Israel?

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Deuteronomy 30:19
Let heaven and earth be my witnesses against you this day that I have put before you life and death, a blessing and a curse: so take life for yourselves and for your seed:

2 Samuel 14:14
For death comes to us all, and we are like water drained out on the earth, which it is not possible to take up again; and God will not take away the life of the man whose purpose is that he who has been sent away may not be completely cut off from him.

2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people, on whom my name is named, make themselves low and come to me in prayer, searching for me and turning from their evil ways; then I will give ear from heaven, overlooking their sin, and will give life again to their land.

Isaiah 1:17
Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow.

Isaiah 1:19
If you will give ear to my word and do it, the good things of the land will be yours;

Jeremiah 18:11
Now, then, say to the men of Judah and to the people of Jerusalem, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am forming an evil thing against you, and designing a design against you: let every man come back now from his evil way, and let your ways and your doings be changed for the better.

Ezekiel 18:24
But when the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, like all the disgusting things which the evil man does, will he have life? Not one of his upright acts will be kept in memory: in the wrong which he has done and in his sin death will overtake him.

Ezekiel 18:27
Again, when the evil-doer, turning away from the evil he has done, does what is ordered and right, he will have life for his soul.

Ezekiel 33:19
And when the evil man, turning away from his evil-doing, does what is ordered and right, he will get life by it.

Jonah 3:10
And God saw what they did, how they were turned from their evil way; and God's purpose was changed as to the evil which he said he would do to them, and he did it not.

Matthew 3:2
Saying, Let your hearts be turned from sin; for the kingdom of heaven is near.

Luke 13:5
I say to you, It is not so: but if your hearts are not changed, you will all come to an end in the same way.

John 6:37
Whatever the Father gives to me will come to me; and I will not send away anyone who comes to me.

Acts 17:30
Those times when men had no knowledge were overlooked by God; but now he gives orders to all men in every place to undergo a change of heart:

Titus 2:11
For the grace of God has come, giving salvation to all men,

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Job 27:2
By the life of God, who has taken away my right; and of the Ruler of all, who has made my soul bitter;

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Proverbs 5:22
The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.

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Isaiah 55:1
Ho! everyone in need, come to the waters, and he who has no strength, let him get food: come, get bread without money; wine and milk without price.

Jeremiah 38:20
But Jeremiah said, They will not give you up: be guided now by the word of the Lord as I have given it to you, and it will be well for you, and you will keep your life.

Daniel 9:13
As it was recorded in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us: but we have made no prayer for grace from the Lord our God that we might be turned from our evil doings and come to true wisdom.

2 Timothy 2:25
Gently guiding those who go against the teaching; if by chance God may give them a change of heart and true knowledge,

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Jeremiah 25:7
But you have not given ear to me, says the Lord; so that you have made me angry with the work of your hands, causing evil to yourselves.

Jeremiah 44:4
And I sent all my servants the prophets to you, getting up early and sending them, saying, Do not do this disgusting thing which is hated by me.

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Jeremiah 31:18
Certainly Ephraim's words of grief have come to my ears, You have given me training and I have undergone it like a young cow unused to the yoke: let me be turned and come back, for you are the Lord my God.

Jeremiah 31:19
Truly, after I had been turned, I had regret for my ways; and after I had got knowledge, I made signs of sorrow: I was put to shame, truly, I was covered with shame, because I had to undergo the shame of my early years.

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Isaiah 49:18
Let your eyes be lifted up round about, and see: they are all coming together to you. By my life, says the Lord, truly you will put them all on you as an ornament, and be clothed with them like a bride.

Jeremiah 22:24
By my life, says the Lord, even if Coniah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, was the ring on my right hand, even from there I would have you pulled off;

Ezekiel 16:48
By my life, says the Lord, Sodom your sister never did, she or her daughters, what you and your daughters have done.

Ezekiel 18:3
By my life, says the Lord, you will no longer have this saying in Israel.

Zephaniah 2:9
For this cause, by my life, says the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, truly Moab will become like Sodom and the children of Ammon like Gomorrah, given up to waste plants and salt pools and unpeopled for ever: the rest of my people will take their property, the overflow of my nation will take their heritage.

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2 Chronicles 30:6
So runners went with letters from the king and his chiefs through all Israel and Judah, by the order of the king, saying, O children of Israel, come back again to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that he may come again to that small band of you which has been kept safe out of the hands of the kings of Assyria.

Isaiah 44:22
I have put your evil doings out of my mind like a thick cloud, and your sins like a mist: come back to me; for I have taken up your cause.

Jeremiah 3:12
Go, and give out these words to the north, and say, Come back, O Israel, though you have been turned away from me, says the Lord; my face will not be against you in wrath: for I am full of mercy, says the Lord, I will not be angry for ever.

Jeremiah 3:14
Come back, O children who are turned away, says the Lord; for I am a husband to you, and I will take you, one from a town and two from a family, and will make you come to Zion;

Jeremiah 3:22
Come back, you children who have been turned away, and I will take away your desire for wandering. See, we have come to you, for you are the Lord our God.

Jeremiah 4:1
If you will come back, O Israel, says the Lord, you will come back to me: and if you will put away your disgusting ways, you will not be sent away from before me.

Hosea 12:6
So then, come back to your God; keep mercy and right, and be waiting at all times on your God.

Hosea 14:3
Assyria will not be our salvation; we will not go on horses; we will not again say to the work of our hands, You are our gods; for in you there is mercy for the child who has no father.

Zechariah 1:3
And you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord of armies: Come back to me, says the Lord of armies, and I will come back to you.

Zechariah 1:4
Be not like your fathers, to whom the voice of the earlier prophets came, saying, Be turned now from your evil ways and from your evil doings: but they did not give ear to me or take note, says the Lord.

Malachi 3:7
From the days of your fathers you have been turned away from my rules and have not kept them. Come back to me, and I will come back to you, says the Lord of armies. But you say, How are we to come back?

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Isaiah 48:18
If only you had given ear to my orders, then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:

Matthew 23:37
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her! Again and again would I have taken your children to myself as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, and you would not!

Luke 19:42
Saying, If you, even you, had knowledge today, of the things which give peace! but you are not able to see them.

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Ephesians 2:4
But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us,

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Ephesians 2:5
Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation),

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Isaiah 62:5
For as a young man takes a virgin for his wife, so will your maker be married to you: and as a husband has joy in his bride, so will the Lord your God be glad over you.

Jeremiah 32:41
And truly, I will take pleasure in doing them good, and all my heart and soul will be given to planting them in this land in good faith.

Zephaniah 3:17
The Lord your God is among you, as a strong saviour: he will be glad over you with joy, he will make his love new again, he will make a song of joy over you as in the time of a holy feast.

Luke 15:5
And when he has got it again, he takes it in his arms with joy.

James 2:13
For the man who has had no mercy will be judged without mercy, but mercy takes pride in overcoming judging.

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James 4:8
Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.

James 4:9
Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.

James 4:10
Make yourselves low in the eyes of the Lord and you will be lifted up by him.

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