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.
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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.
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Exodus 20:2
“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Exodus 20:3
“You shall have no other gods before me.
Deuteronomy 5:6
“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Deuteronomy 5:7
“You shall have no other gods before me.
Deuteronomy 7:4
For that would turn away your sons from following me, that they may serve other gods. So Yahweh’s anger would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.
Deuteronomy 7:5
But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their engraved images with fire.
Deuteronomy 7:6
For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
Psalms 81:9
There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god.
Psalms 81:10
I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
Ezekiel 20:19
I am Yahweh your God. Walk in my statutes, keep my ordinances, and do them.
Hosea 13:4
“Yet I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt; and you shall acknowledge no god but me, and besides me there is no savior.
2 Timothy 4:10
for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia.
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Joshua 23:14
“Behold, today I am going the way of all the earth. You know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which Yahweh your God spoke concerning you. All have happened to you. Not one thing has failed of it.
Jeremiah 2:5
Yahweh says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?
Jeremiah 2:13
“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.
Jeremiah 2:19
“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
Jeremiah 2:31
Generation, consider Yahweh’s word. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We have broken loose. We will come to you no more’?
Jeremiah 5:23
“But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart. They have revolted and gone.
Jeremiah 12:6
For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you! Even they have cried aloud after you! Don’t believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.
Jeremiah 14:1
This is Yahweh’s word that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:
Jeremiah 14:22
Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the sky give showers? Aren’t you he, Yahweh our God? Therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.
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Judges 2:4
When Yahweh’s angel spoke these words to all the children of Israel, the people lifted up their voice and wept.
1 Samuel 7:2
From the day that the ark stayed in Kiriath Jearim, the time was long—for it was twenty years; and all the house of Israel lamented after Yahweh.
Psalms 6:2
Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.
Psalms 30:2
Yahweh my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.
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 107:20
He sends his word, and heals them, and delivers them from their graves.
Zechariah 12:11
In that day there will be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddo.
Matthew 5:4
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
2 Corinthians 7:11
For behold, this same thing, that you were grieved in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vindication! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.
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2 Kings 2:22
So the waters were healed to this day, according to Elisha’s word which he spoke.
Psalms 60:2
You have made the land tremble. You have torn it. Mend its fractures, for it quakes.
Ezekiel 47:9
It will happen that every living creature which swarms, in every place where the rivers come, will live. Then there will be a very great multitude of fish; for these waters have come there, and the waters of the sea will be healed, and everything will live wherever the river comes.
Ezekiel 47:11
But its swamps marshes will not be healed. They will be given up to salt.
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2 Chronicles 6:24
“If your people Israel are struck down before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and they turn again and confess your name, and pray and make supplication before you in this house,
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2 Chronicles 30:18
For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover other than the way it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, “May the good Yahweh pardon everyone
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2 Chronicles 30:20
Yahweh listened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
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Job 2:11
Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.
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Psalms 41:5
My enemies speak evil against me: “When will he die, and his name perish?”
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Psalms 74:18
Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
Psalms 74:19
Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.
Psalms 74:20
Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.
Psalms 74:21
Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.
Psalms 79:4
We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
Psalms 79:12
Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.
Psalms 123:3
Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.
Psalms 123:4
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.
Psalms 137:1
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
Psalms 137:2
On the willows in that land, we hung up our harps.
Ezekiel 36:30
I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field, that you may receive no more the reproach of famine among the nations.
Jonah 2:7
“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.
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Psalms 80:3
Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
Psalms 80:7
Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
Psalms 80:19
Turn us again, Yahweh God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
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1 Chronicles 5:20
They were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he answered them because they put their trust in him.
2 Chronicles 16:8
Weren’t the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge army, with chariots and exceedingly many horsemen? Yet, because you relied on Yahweh, he delivered them into your hand.
2 Chronicles 32:8
An arm of flesh is with him, but Yahweh our God is with us to help us and to fight our battles.” The people rested themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
Psalms 125:1
Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.
Psalms 125:2
As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so Yahweh surrounds his people from this time forward and forever more.
Isaiah 7:4
Tell him, ‘Be careful, and keep calm. Don’t be afraid, neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails of smoking torches, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
Isaiah 26:3
You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.
Isaiah 26:4
Trust in Yahweh forever; for in Yah, Yahweh, is an everlasting Rock.
Isaiah 30:7
For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore I have called her Rahab who sits still.
Isaiah 30:15
For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.” You refused,
Isaiah 32:17
The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.
Isaiah 57:19
I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near,” says Yahweh; “and I will heal them.”
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Psalms 137:3
For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs. Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy: “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
Song of Solomon 6:4
You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with banners.
Jeremiah 51:51
“We are confounded because we have heard reproach. Confusion has covered our faces, for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of Yahweh’s house.”
Lamentations 2:15
All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”
Lamentations 2:16
All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”
Lamentations 2:17
Yahweh has done that which he planned. He has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old. He has thrown down, and has not pitied. He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you. He has exalted the horn of your adversaries.
Lamentations 5:1
Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.
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Song of Solomon 1:15
Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are like doves. Beloved
Song of Solomon 2:14
My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places of the mountainside, let me see your face. Let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet and your face is lovely.
Isaiah 62:5
For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.
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Isaiah 2:18
The idols shall utterly pass away.
Isaiah 2:19
Men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.
Isaiah 2:20
In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats,
Isaiah 17:7
In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 17:8
They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either the Asherah poles or the incense altars.
Ezekiel 36:25
I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.
Ezekiel 37:23
They won’t defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. So they will be my people, and I will be their God.
Zechariah 13:2
It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they will be remembered no more. I will also cause the prophets and the spirit of impurity to pass out of the land.
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Jeremiah 3:7
I said after she had done all these things, ‘She will return to me;’ but she didn’t return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
Jeremiah 3:10
Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense,” says Yahweh.
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Jeremiah 7:3
Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, “Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
Jeremiah 7:4
Don’t trust in lying words, saying, ‘Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, are these.’
Jeremiah 7:5
For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;
Jeremiah 7:6
if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt,
Jeremiah 7:7
then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forever more.
Jeremiah 20:4
For Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They will fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes will see it. I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will carry them captive to Babylon, and will kill them with the sword.
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Jeremiah 7:24
But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
Jeremiah 8:5
Why then have the people of Jerusalem fallen back by a perpetual backsliding? They cling to deceit. They refuse to return.
Jeremiah 49:4
Why do you boast in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding daughter? You trusted in her treasures, saying, ‘Who will come to me?’
Zechariah 7:11
But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.
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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Job 29:2
“Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;
Psalms 23:3
He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
Isaiah 45:24
They will say of me, ‘There is righteousness and strength only in Yahweh.’ ” Even to him will men come. All those who raged against him will be disappointed.
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.
Jeremiah 18:8
if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.
Lamentations 3:42
“We have transgressed and have rebelled. You have not pardoned.
Ezekiel 18:21
“But if the wicked turns from all his sins that he has committed, and keeps all my statutes, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live. He shall not die.
Ezekiel 18:22
None of his transgressions that he has committed will be remembered against him. In his righteousness that he has done, he shall live.
Daniel 9:13
As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we have not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities and have discernment in your truth.
Hosea 6:2
After two days he will revive us. On the third day he will raise us up, and we will live before him.
Hosea 11:8
“How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.
Matthew 11:28
“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
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Jeremiah 26:2
“Yahweh says: ‘Stand in the court of Yahweh’s house, and speak to all the cities of Judah which come to worship in Yahweh’s house, all the words that I command you to speak to them. Don’t omit a word.
Jeremiah 26:3
It may be they will listen, and every man turn from his evil way, that I may relent from the evil which I intend to do to them because of the evil of their doings.’
Jeremiah 26:4
You shall tell them, “Yahweh says: ‘If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law which I have set before you,
Jeremiah 26:5
to listen to the words of my servants the prophets whom I send to you, even rising up early and sending them—but you have not listened—
Jeremiah 26:6
then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.” ’ ”
Jonah 4:1
But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
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Psalms 40:8
I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
Psalms 116:7
Return to your rest, my soul, for Yahweh has dealt bountifully with you.
Proverbs 8:36
But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”
Isaiah 27:8
In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.
Jeremiah 30:13
There is no one to plead your cause, that you may be bound up. You have no healing medicines.
Lamentations 3:25
Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
Lamentations 3:39
Why should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
Ezekiel 14:6
“Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Return, and turn yourselves from your idols! Turn away your faces from all your abominations.
Ezekiel 34:16
“I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice.” ’
John 5:40
Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.
John 6:37
All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.
Acts 9:6
But rise up and enter into the city, then you will be told what you must do.”
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Song of Solomon 1:4
Take me away with you. Let’s hurry. The king has brought me into his rooms. Friends We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! Beloved They are right to love you.
Isaiah 2:3
Many peoples shall go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law shall go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 3:16
It will come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased in the land in those days,” says Yahweh, “they will no longer say, ‘the ark of Yahweh’s covenant!’ It will not come to mind. They won’t remember it. They won’t miss it, nor will another be made.
Jeremiah 3:17
At that time they will call Jerusalem ‘Yahweh’s Throne;’ and all the nations will be gathered to it, to Yahweh’s name, to Jerusalem. They will no longer walk after the stubbornness of their evil heart.
Jeremiah 3:18
In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together out of the land of the north to the land that I gave for an inheritance to your fathers.
Jeremiah 8:6
I listened and heard, but they didn’t say what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.
Jeremiah 31:3
Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness.
Jeremiah 31:7
For Yahweh says, “Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout for the chief of the nations. Publish, praise, and say, ‘Yahweh, save your people, the remnant of Israel!’
Jeremiah 31:8
Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, along with the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who travails with child together. They will return as a great company.
Jeremiah 31:10
“Hear Yahweh’s word, you nations, and declare it in the distant islands. Say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.’
Ezekiel 14:22
Yet, behold, there will be left a remnant in it that will be carried out, both sons and daughters. Behold, they will come out to you, and you will see their way and their doings. Then you will be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought on it.
Zechariah 10:9
I will sow them among the peoples. They will remember me in far countries. They will live with their children and will return.
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Jeremiah 32:6
Jeremiah said, “Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
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1 Kings 8:38
whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread out his hands toward this house,
Isaiah 19:22
Yahweh will strike Egypt, striking and healing. They will return to Yahweh, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them.
Isaiah 30:18
Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.
Jeremiah 4:4
Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Jeremiah 23:14
In the prophets of Jerusalem I have also seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one returns from his wickedness. They have all become to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.”
Jeremiah 32:40
I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good. I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.
Jeremiah 36:3
It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I intend to do to them, that they may each return from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.”
Ezekiel 18:23
Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked?” says the Lord Yahweh, “and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?
Hosea 2:2
Contend with your mother! Contend, for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her prostitution from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
Hosea 7:10
The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they haven’t returned to Yahweh their God, nor sought him, for all this.
Luke 15:20
“He arose and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him and was moved with compassion, and ran, fell on his neck, and kissed him.
1 Peter 2:24
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.
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Job 33:27
He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.
Job 33:28
He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’
Job 33:29
“Behold, God does all these things, twice, yes three times, with a man,
Job 33:30
to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.
Psalms 130:3
If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?
Psalms 130:4
But there is forgiveness with you, therefore you are feared.
Ezekiel 16:63
that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”
Luke 19:5
When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house.”
Luke 19:6
He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully.
Luke 19:7
When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”
Luke 19:8
Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”
Romans 2:4
Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
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Deuteronomy 14:1
You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
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.
Isaiah 63:16
For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Yahweh, are our Father. Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.
Hosea 11:1
“When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
John 1:12
But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:
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Jonah 3:1
Yahweh’s word came to Jonah the second time, saying,
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Nahum 2:13
“Behold, I am against you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard.”
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Isaiah 21:12
The watchman said, “The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again.”
Isaiah 55:3
Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
Ezekiel 18:32
For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Therefore turn yourselves, and live!
Hosea 5:6
They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Yahweh, but they won’t find him. He has withdrawn himself from them.
Hosea 11:9
I will not execute the fierceness of my anger. I will not return to destroy Ephraim, for I am God, and not man—the Holy One among you. I will not come in wrath.
Hosea 12:6
Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.
Joel 2:14
Who knows? He may turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal offering and a drink offering to Yahweh, your God.
Zephaniah 2:1
Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, you nation that has no shame,
1 Peter 2:4
Come to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.
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Matthew 9:12
When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.
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Matthew 9:13
But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
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Matthew 13:15
for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, and they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, and I would heal them.’
Mark 4:12
that ‘seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’ ”
John 12:40
“He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them.”
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Job 22:17
who said to God, ‘Depart from us!’ and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’
Job 23:3
Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!
Psalms 68:31
Princes shall come out of Egypt. Ethiopia shall hurry to stretch out her hands to God.
Psalms 68:32
Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth! Sing praises to the Lord— Selah—
Hebrews 7:19
(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.
Hebrews 7:25
Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.
Hebrews 11:6
Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
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Isaiah 26:13
Yahweh our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us, but we will only acknowledge your name.
Romans 6:16
Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
2 Peter 2:19
promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.
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Song of Solomon 5:4
My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening. My heart pounded for him.
Amos 3:14
“For in the day that I visit the transgressions of Israel on him, I will also visit the altars of Bethel; and the horns of the altar will be cut off, and fall to the ground.
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
2 Peter 3:15
Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you,
Revelation 3:3
Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.
Revelation 3:20
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with me.
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