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Jeremiah 31:20
Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him. therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.

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Exodus 4:22
You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

Deuteronomy 32:6
Is this the way you repay Yahweh, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.

Jeremiah 3:4
Will you not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the guide of my youth!’?

Matthew 6:9
Pray like this: “ ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.

2 Corinthians 6:18
I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”

1 John 3:1
See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

1 John 3:2
Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him just as he is.

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Leviticus 26:40
“ ‘If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me; and also that because they walked contrary to me,

Leviticus 26:42
then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham; and I will remember the land.

Jeremiah 3:12
Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, you backsliding Israel,’ says Yahweh; ‘I will not look in anger on you, for I am merciful,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will not keep anger forever.

Jeremiah 3:13
Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Yahweh your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,’ ” says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 3:14
“Return, backsliding children,” says Yahweh, “for I am a husband to you. I will take one of you from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

Jeremiah 3:22
Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backsliding. “Behold, we have come to you; for you are Yahweh our God.

Hosea 14:2
Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, “Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good; so we offer bulls as we vowed of our lips.

Acts 26:20
but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

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Job 30:27
My heart is troubled, and doesn’t rest. Days of affliction have come on me.

Lamentations 2:11
My eyes fail with tears. My heart is troubled. My bile is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.

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Psalms 25:6
Yahweh, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness, for they are from old times.

Psalms 86:5
For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.

Psalms 86:15
But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

Psalms 103:17
But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children,

Zechariah 10:6
“I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph. I will bring them back, for I have mercy on them. They will be as though I had not cast them off, for I am Yahweh their God, and I will hear them.

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Psalms 119:59
I considered my ways, and turned my steps to your statutes.

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Psalms 30:5
For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

Psalms 126:5
Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.

Isaiah 57:16
For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.

Isaiah 57:17
I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him. I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

Matthew 5:4
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

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Jeremiah 31:25
For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.”

Zechariah 1:16
Therefore Yahweh says: “I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy. My house shall be built in it,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and a line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.” ’

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Luke 15:23
Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let’s eat and celebrate;

Luke 15:24
for this, my son, was dead and is alive again. He was lost and is found.’ Then they began to celebrate.

Luke 15:32
But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ ”

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Philemon 1:12
I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,

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