Hosea 12:6

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

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Genesis 32:24
Then Jacob was by himself; and a man was fighting with him till dawn.

Genesis 32:28
And he said, Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel: for in your fight with God and with men you have overcome.

Genesis 32:30
And Jacob gave that place the name of Peniel, saying, I have seen God face to face, and still I am living.

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Exodus 3:15
And God went on to say to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has sent me to you: this is my name for ever, and this is my sign to all generations.

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Deuteronomy 10:18
Judging uprightly in the cause of the widow and of the child who has no father, and giving food and clothing in his mercy to the man from a strange country.

1 Samuel 12:24
Only go in the fear of the Lord, and be his true servants with all your heart, keeping in mind what great things he has done for you.

Isaiah 1:16
Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;

Isaiah 1:23
Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.

Isaiah 58:7
Is it not to give your bread to those in need, and to let the poor who have no resting-place come into your house? to put a robe on the unclothed one when you see him, and not to keep your eyes shut for fear of seeing his flesh?

Jeremiah 7:5
For if your ways and your doings are truly changed for the better; if you truly give right decisions between a man and his neighbour;

Jeremiah 22:15
Are you to be a king because you make more use of cedar than your father? did not your father take food and drink and do right, judging in righteousness, and then it was well for him?

Ezekiel 18:8
And has not given his money out at interest or taken great profits, and, turning his hand from evil-doing, has kept faith between man and man,

Zechariah 8:16
These are the things which you are to do: Let every man say what is true to his neighbour; and let your judging give peace in your towns.

James 1:27
The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.

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Deuteronomy 26:17
Today you have given witness that the Lord is your God, and that you will go in his ways and keep his laws and his orders and his decisions and give ear to his voice:

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Deuteronomy 26:18
And the Lord has made it clear this day that you are a special people to him, as he gave you his word; and that you are to keep all his orders;

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1 Samuel 15:22
And Samuel said, Has the Lord as much delight in offerings and burned offerings as in the doing of his orders? Truly, to do his pleasure is better than to make offerings, and to give ear to him than the fat of sheep.

Proverbs 21:3
To do what is right and true is more pleasing to the Lord than an offering.

Amos 5:22
Even if you give me your burned offerings and your meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: I will have nothing to do with the peace-offerings of your fat beasts.

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2 Samuel 15:31
And word came to David, saying, Ahithophel is among those who are joined to Absalom. And David said, O Lord, let the wisdom of Ahithophel be made foolish.

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2 Samuel 17:14
Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, Hushai's suggestion is better than that of Ahithophel. For it was the purpose of the Lord to make the wise designs of Ahithophel without effect, so that the Lord might send evil on Absalom.

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Deuteronomy 4:29
But if in those lands you are turned again to the Lord your God, searching for him with all your heart and soul, he will not keep himself from you.

1 Kings 8:47
And if they take thought, in the land where they are prisoners, and are turned again to you, crying out in prayer to you in that land, and saying, We are sinners, we have done wrong, we have done evil;

1 Kings 8:48
And with all their heart and soul are turned again to you, in the land of those who took them prisoners, and make their prayer to you, turning their eyes to this land which you gave to their fathers, and to the town which you took for yourself, and the house which I made for your name:

1 Kings 8:49
Then give ear to their prayer and to their cry in heaven your living-place, and see right done to them;

2 Chronicles 6:38
If with all their heart and soul they are turned again to you, in the land where they are prisoners, the land where they have been taken, and make their prayers, turning their eyes to their land which you gave to their fathers, and to the town which you took for yourself, and the house which I have made for your name:

2 Chronicles 6:39
Then give ear from heaven your living-place to their prayer and their cry, and see right done to them, answering with forgiveness your people who have done wrong against you.

2 Chronicles 7:13
If, at my word, heaven is shut up, so that there is no rain, or if I send locusts on the land for its destruction, or if I send disease on my people;

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.

Jeremiah 24:7
And I will give them a heart to have knowledge of me, that I am the Lord: and they will be my people, and I will be their God: for they will come back to me with all their heart.

Jeremiah 29:12
And you will go on crying to me and making prayer to me, and I will give ear to you.

Jeremiah 29:13
And you will be searching for me and I will be there, when you have gone after me with all your heart.

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2 Chronicles 20:5
And Jehoshaphat took his place in the meeting of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord in front of the new open space,

2 Chronicles 20:23
And the children of Ammon and Moab made an attack on the people of Mount Seir with a view to their complete destruction; and when they had put an end to the people of Seir, everyman's hand was turned against his neighbour for his destruction.

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2 Chronicles 30:7
Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were sinners against the Lord, the God of their fathers, so that he made them a cause of fear, as you see.

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2 Chronicles 30:8
Now do not be hard-hearted, as your fathers were; but give yourselves to the Lord, and come into his holy place, which he has made his for ever, and be the servants of the Lord your God, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from you.

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Psalms 25:3
Let no servant of yours be put to shame; may those be shamed who are false without cause.

Psalms 33:20
Our souls are waiting for the Lord; he is our help and our salvation.

Psalms 37:9
For the evil-doers will be cut off: but those who have faith in the Lord will have the earth for their heritage.

Psalms 39:7
And now, Lord, what am I waiting for? my hope is in you.

Psalms 40:1
To the chief music-maker. Of David. A Psalm. When I was waiting quietly for the Lord, his heart was turned to me, and he gave ear to my cry.

Psalms 62:1
To the chief music-maker. After Jeduthun. A Psalm. Of David. My soul, put all your faith in God; for from him comes my salvation.

Isaiah 64:4
The ear has not had news of, or the eye seen, ...any God but you, working for the man who is waiting for him.

Luke 2:25
And there was then in Jerusalem a man whose name was Simeon; and he was an upright man, fearing God and waiting for the comfort of Israel: and the Holy Spirit was on him.

Romans 8:24
For our salvation is by hope: but hope which is seen is not hope: for who is hoping for what he sees?

Hebrews 10:36
For, having done what was right in God's eyes, you have need of waiting before his word has effect for you.

Hebrews 10:37
In a very little time he who is coming will come; he will not be slow.

Hebrews 10:38
But the upright man will be living by his faith; and if he goes back, my soul will have no pleasure in him.

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Psalms 97:12
Be glad in the Lord, you upright men; praising the memory of his holy name.

Psalms 135:13
O Lord, your name is eternal; and the memory of you will have no end.

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Psalms 101:1
A Psalm. Of David. I will make a song of mercy and righteousness; to you, O Lord, will I make melody.

Psalms 119:112
My heart is ever ready to keep your rules, even to the end.

Psalms 146:2
While I have breath I will give praise to the Lord: I will make melody to my God while I have my being.

Proverbs 23:18
For without doubt there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

Daniel 6:20
And when he came near the hole where Daniel was, he gave a loud cry of grief; the king made answer and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whose servant you are at all times, able to keep you safe from the lions?

Acts 6:4
Then we will give all our time to prayer and the teaching of the word.

Romans 2:7
To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life:

1 Thessalonians 5:18
In everything give praise: for this is the purpose of God in Christ Jesus for you.

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Isaiah 37:15
And he made prayer to the Lord, saying,

Isaiah 37:36
And the angel of the Lord went out and put to death in the army of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand men: and when the people got up early in the morning, there was nothing to be seen but dead bodies.

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Jeremiah 3:15
And I will give you keepers, pleasing to my heart, who will give you your food with knowledge and wisdom.

Jeremiah 3:16
And it will come about, when your numbers are increased in the land, in those days, says the Lord, that they will no longer say, The ark of the agreement of the Lord: it will not come into their minds, they will not have any memory of it, or be conscious of the loss of it, and it will not be made again.

Jeremiah 3:17
At that time Jerusalem will be named the seat of the Lord's kingdom; and all the nations will come together to it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem: and no longer will their steps be guided by the purposes of their evil hearts.

Jeremiah 3:18
In those days the family of Judah will go with the family of Israel, and they will come together out of the land of the north into the land which I gave for a heritage to your fathers.

Jeremiah 3:19
But I said, How am I to put you among the children, and give you a desired land, a heritage of glory among the armies of the nations? and I said, You are to say to me, My father; and not be turned away from me.

Jeremiah 3:20
Truly, as a wife is false to her husband, so have you been false to me, O Israel, says the Lord.

Lamentations 3:39
What protest may a living man make, even a man about the punishment of his sin?

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Ezekiel 33:9
But if you make clear to the evil-doer the danger of his way for the purpose of turning him from it, and he is not turned from his way, death will overtake him in his evil-doing, but your life will be safe.

Revelation 2:16
See, then, that you have a change of heart; or I will come to you quickly, and will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.

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Proverbs 21:21
He who goes after righteousness and mercy will get life, righteousness, and honour.

Jeremiah 9:24
But if any man has pride, let it be in this, that he has the wisdom to have knowledge of me, that I am the Lord, working mercy, giving true decisions, and doing righteousness in the earth: for in these things I have delight, says the Lord.

Hosea 2:7
And if she goes after her lovers she will not overtake them; if she makes search for them she will not see them; then will she say, I will go back to my first husband, for then it was better for me than now.

Hosea 2:9
So I will take away again my grain in its time and my wine, and I will take away my wool and my linen with which her body might have been covered.

Hosea 5:4
Their works will not let them come back to their God, for a false spirit is in them and they have no knowledge of the Lord.

Hosea 6:2
After two days he will give us life, and on the third day he will make us get up, and we will be living before him.

Hosea 6:3
And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.

Hosea 6:4
O Ephraim, what am I to do to you? O Judah, what am I to do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew which goes early away.

Hosea 6:7
But like a man, they have gone against the agreement; there they were false to me.

Hosea 7:10
And the pride of Israel gives an answer to his face; but for all this, they have not gone back to the Lord their God, or made search for him.

Hosea 7:11
And Ephraim is like a foolish dove, without wisdom; they send out their cry to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

Hosea 7:16
They have gone to what is of no value; they are like a false bow; their captains will come to destruction by the sword, and their ruler by my wrath; for this, the land of Egypt will make sport of them.

Hosea 10:12
Put in the seed of righteousness, get in your grain in mercy, let your unploughed earth be turned up: for it is time to make search for the Lord, till he comes and sends righteousness on you like rain.

Hosea 11:5
He will go back to the land of Egypt and the Assyrian will be his king, because they would not come back to me.

Hosea 12:14
I have been bitterly moved to wrath by Ephraim; so that his blood will be on him, and the Lord will make his shame come back on him.

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Hosea 6:8
Gilead is a town of evil-doers, marked with blood.

Hosea 10:13
You have been ploughing sin, you have got in a store of evil, the fruit of deceit has been your food: for you put faith in your way, in the number of your men of war.

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Psalms 116:5
The Lord is full of grace and righteousness; truly, he is a God of mercy.

Psalms 130:7
O Israel, have hope in the Lord; for with the Lord is mercy and full salvation.

Proverbs 1:23
Be turned again by my sharp words: see, I will send the flow of my spirit on you, and make my words clear to you.

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 3:21
A voice is sounding on the open hilltops, the weeping and the prayers of the children of Israel; because their way is twisted, they have not kept the Lord their God in mind.

Ezekiel 14:6
For this cause say to the children of Israel, These are the words of the Lord: Come back and give up your false gods and let your faces be turned from your disgusting things.

Daniel 12:3
And those who are wise will be shining like the light of the outstretched sky; and those by whom numbers have been turned to righteousness will be like the stars for ever and ever.

Hosea 14:8
As for Ephraim, what has he to do with false gods any longer? I have given an answer and I will keep watch over him; I am like a branching fir-tree, from me comes your fruit.

Zechariah 10:6
And I will make the children of Judah strong, and I will be the saviour of the children of Joseph, and I will make them come back again, for I have had mercy on them: they will be as if I had not given them up: for I am the Lord their God and I will give them an answer.

Malachi 4:6
And by him the hearts of fathers will be turned to their children, and the hearts of children to their fathers; for fear that I may come and put the earth under a curse.

Luke 1:17
And he will go before his face in the spirit and power of Elijah, turning the hearts of fathers to their children, and wrongdoers to the way of righteousness; to make ready a people whose hearts have been turned to the Lord.

Revelation 2:5
So keep in mind where you were at first, and be changed in heart and do the first works; or I will come to you, and will take away your light from its place, if your hearts are not changed.

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Joel 2:28
And after that, it will come about, says the Lord, that I will send my spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will be prophets, your old men will have dreams, your young men will see visions:

Joel 2:29
And on the servants and the servant-girls in those days I will send my spirit.

Joel 2:30
And I will let wonders be seen in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and pillars of smoke.

Joel 2:31
The sun will be made dark and the moon turned to blood, before the great day of the Lord comes, a day to be feared.

Joel 2:32
And it will be that whoever makes his prayer to the name of the Lord will be kept safe: for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem some will be kept safe, as the Lord has said, and will be among the small band marked out by the Lord.

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Isaiah 57:1
The upright man goes to his death, and no one gives a thought to it; and god-fearing men are taken away, and no one is troubled by it; for the upright man is taken away because of evil-doing, and goes into peace.

Matthew 5:7
Happy are those who have mercy: for they will be given mercy.

Luke 6:31
Do to others as you would have them do to you.

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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Nahum 1:7
The Lord is good, a strong place in the day of trouble; and he has knowledge of those who take him for their safe cover.

Matthew 19:17
And he said to him, Why are you questioning me about what is good? One there is who is good: but if you have a desire to go into life, keep the rules of the law.

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Mark 15:43
There came Joseph of Arimathaea, a responsible man in high honour, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God; and he went in to Pilate without fear, and made a request for the body of Jesus.

Luke 23:51
(He had not given his approval to their decision or their acts), of Arimathaea, a town of the Jews, who was waiting for the kingdom of God:

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1 Chronicles 16:11
Let your search be for the Lord and for his strength; let your hearts ever be turned to him.

Psalms 71:14
But I will go on ever hoping, and increasing in all your praise.

Psalms 71:15
My mouth will make clear your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for they are more than may be measured.

Psalms 71:16
I will give news of the great acts of the Lord God; my words will be of your righteousness, and of yours only.

Psalms 71:17
O God, you have been my teacher from the time when I was young; and I have been talking of your works of wonder even till now.

Psalms 71:18
Now when I am old and grey-headed, O God, give me not up; till I have made clear your strength to this generation, and your power to all those to come.

Psalms 73:23
But still I am ever with you; you have taken me by my right hand.

Proverbs 23:17
Have no envy of sinners in your heart, but keep in the fear of the Lord all through the day;

Luke 18:1
And he made a story for them, the point of which was that men were to go on making prayer and not get tired;

Colossians 4:2
Give yourselves to prayer at all times, keeping watch with praise;

1 Thessalonians 5:17
Keep on with your prayers.

James 1:25
But he who goes on looking into the true law which makes him free, being not a hearer without memory but a doer putting it into effect, this man will have a blessing on his acts.

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Acts 9:42
And news of it went all through Joppa, and a number of people had faith in the Lord.

Acts 11:21
And the power of the Lord was with them, and a great number had faith and were turned to the Lord.

Acts 14:15
Good people, why are you doing these things? We are men with the same feelings as you, and we give you the good news so that you may be turned away from these foolish things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things in them:

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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 3:13
Only be conscious of your sin, the evil you have done against the Lord your God; you have gone with strange men under every branching tree, giving no attention to my voice, says the Lord.

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 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.

Ezekiel 18:21
But if the evil-doer, turning away from all the sins which he has done, keeps my rules and does what is ordered and right, life will certainly be his; death will not be his fate.

Ezekiel 18:30
For this cause I will be your judge, O children of Israel, judging every man by his ways, says the Lord. Come back and be turned from all your sins; so that they may not be the cause of your falling into evil.

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.

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.

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?

Acts 2:38
And Peter said, Let your hearts be changed, every one of you, and have baptism in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will have the Holy Spirit given to you.

Hebrews 4:16
Then let us come near to the seat of grace without fear, so that mercy may be given to us, and we may get grace for our help in time of need.

Hebrews 5:7
Who in the days of his flesh, having sent up prayers and requests with strong crying and weeping to him who was able to give him salvation from death, had his prayer answered because of his fear of God.

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Hebrews 10:39
But we are not of those who go back to destruction; but of those who have faith even to the salvation of the soul.

James 5:7
Go on waiting calmly, my brothers, till the coming of the Lord, like the farmer waiting for the good fruit of the earth till the early and late rains have come.

James 5:8
Be as calm in your waiting; let your hearts be strong: because the coming of the Lord is near.

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