Zechariah 1:3
Therefore tell them, Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Return to me,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will return to you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.
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Zechariah 1:3
Therefore tell them, Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Return to me,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will return to you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.
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Genesis 18:23
Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?
Psalms 73:28
But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.
Isaiah 29:13
The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;
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 10:22
let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and having our body washed with pure water,
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Deuteronomy 4:29
But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you will find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deuteronomy 30:1
It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations where Yahweh your God has driven you,
Deuteronomy 30:3
that then Yahweh your God will release you from captivity, have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples where Yahweh your God has scattered you.
Deuteronomy 30:4
If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there Yahweh your God will gather you, and from there he will bring you back.
Deuteronomy 30:10
if you will obey Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
1 Kings 8:47
yet if they repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly,’
1 Kings 8:48
if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen and the house which I have built for your name,
1 Kings 8:49
then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling place, and maintain their cause;
1 Chronicles 28:9
You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
2 Chronicles 6:38
if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have been taken captive, and pray toward their land which you gave to their fathers, and the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name;
2 Chronicles 6:39
then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling place, their prayer and their petitions, and maintain their cause, and forgive your people who have sinned against you.
Psalms 145:18
Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
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Deuteronomy 30:8
You shall return and obey Yahweh’s voice, and do all his commandments which I command you today.
Deuteronomy 30:9
Yahweh your God will make you prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good; for Yahweh will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers,
2 Chronicles 7:13
“If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people,
2 Chronicles 7:14
if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Isaiah 65:24
It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
Jeremiah 29:12
You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
Jeremiah 29:13
You shall seek me and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.
Luke 18:1
He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray and not give up,
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1 Kings 11:7
Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.
1 Kings 11:8
So he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
1 Kings 14:23
For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
1 Kings 15:3
He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father.
1 Kings 15:12
He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
2 Chronicles 14:2
Asa did that which was good and right in Yahweh his God’s eyes,
2 Chronicles 14:3
for he took away the foreign altars and the high places, broke down the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles,
2 Chronicles 14:4
and commanded Judah to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and to obey his law and command.
2 Chronicles 14:5
Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun images; and the kingdom was quiet before him.
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Ezra 4:12
Be it known to the king that the Jews who came up from you have come to us to Jerusalem. They are building the rebellious and bad city, and have finished the walls and repaired the foundations.
Ezra 4:21
Make a decree now to cause these men to cease, and that this city not be built until a decree is made by me.
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Ezra 9:13
“After all that has come on us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,
Ezra 9:14
shall we again break your commandments, and join ourselves with the peoples that do these abominations? Wouldn’t you be angry with us until you had consumed us, so that there would be no remnant, nor any to escape?
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Job 8:5
If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.
Job 8:6
If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
Job 11:13
“If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.
Job 11:14
If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don’t let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.
Job 22:23
If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.
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Psalms 88:5
set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.
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Psalms 101:1
I will sing of loving kindness and justice. To you, Yahweh, I will sing praises.
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Psalms 116:8
For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
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Psalms 116:9
I will walk before Yahweh in the land of the living.
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Psalms 119:60
I will hurry, and not delay, to obey your commandments.
Isaiah 9:12
The Syrians in front, and the Philistines behind; and they will devour Israel with open mouth. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 44:22
I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.
Isaiah 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Jeremiah 5:23
“But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart. They have revolted and gone.
Jeremiah 31:22
How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter? For Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth: a woman will encompass a man.”
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.
Malachi 3:17
They shall be mine,” says Yahweh of Armies, “my own possession in the day that I make. I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.
Matthew 3:8
Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!
Matthew 5:4
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Ephesians 4:23
and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
Ephesians 4:24
and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
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Proverbs 22:8
He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
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Proverbs 19:2
It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge, nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the way.
Song of Solomon 6:13
Return, return, Shulammite! Return, return, that we may gaze at you. Lover Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite, as at the dance of Mahanaim?
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:
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Jeremiah 18:5
Then Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
Jeremiah 18:6
“House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?” says Yahweh. “Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.
Jeremiah 18:7
At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it,
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.
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Jeremiah 3:15
I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.
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 3:19
“But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’
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.
Lamentations 3:39
Why should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
Zechariah 14:16
It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, and to keep the feast of booths.
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Isaiah 55:8
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh.
Isaiah 55:9
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Jeremiah 31:18
“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned, for you are Yahweh my God.
Jeremiah 31:19
Surely after that I was turned. I repented. After that I was instructed. I struck my thigh. I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.’
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.
Luke 15:7
I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.
Luke 15:8
“Or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn’t light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it?
Luke 15:9
When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost!’
Luke 15:10
Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”
Luke 15:21
The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
Luke 15:23
Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let’s eat and celebrate;
Luke 17:32
Remember Lot’s wife!
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Jeremiah 42:20
For you have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for you sent me to Yahweh your God, saying, ‘Pray for us to Yahweh our God; and according to all that Yahweh our God says, so declare to us, and we will do it.’
Jeremiah 42:21
I have declared it to you today; but you have not obeyed Yahweh your God’s voice in anything for which he has sent me to you.
Jeremiah 42:22
Now therefore know certainly that you will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence in the place where you desire to go to live.”
Ezekiel 33:4
then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet and doesn’t heed the warning, if the sword comes and takes him away, his blood will be on his own head.
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Ezekiel 18:19
“Yet you say, ‘Why doesn’t the son bear the iniquity of the father?’ When the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he will surely live.
Ezekiel 20:13
“ ‘ “But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They didn’t walk in my statutes and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keeps, he shall live in them. They greatly profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.
Ezekiel 20:14
But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
Ezekiel 20:15
Moreover also I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands,
Ezekiel 20:16
because they rejected my ordinances, and didn’t walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.
Ezekiel 20:17
Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn’t destroy them. I didn’t make a full end of them in the wilderness.
Ezekiel 20:20
Make my Sabbaths holy. They shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.’
Ezekiel 20:24
because they had not executed my ordinances, but had rejected my statutes, and had profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.
Ezekiel 20:30
“Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Do you pollute yourselves in the way of your fathers? Do you play the prostitute after their abominations?
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1 Samuel 7:4
Then the children of Israel removed the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and served Yahweh only.
Isaiah 9:13
Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought Yahweh of Armies.
Ezekiel 18:31
Cast away from you all your transgressions in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit. For why will you die, house of Israel?
Hosea 3:5
Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.
Hosea 5:15
I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”
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 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.
Hosea 14:3
Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”
Micah 7:18
Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
Acts 2:38
Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 8:22
Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.
2 Corinthians 5:14
For the love of Christ compels us; because we judge thus: that one died for all, therefore all died.
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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,
Daniel 12:3
Those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse. Those who turn many to righteousness will shine as the stars forever and ever.
Joel 2:28
“It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.
Joel 2:29
And also on the servants and on the handmaids in those days, I will pour out my Spirit.
Joel 2:30
I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood, fire, and pillars of smoke.
Joel 2:31
The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
Joel 2:32
It will happen that whoever will call on Yahweh’s name shall be saved; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as Yahweh has said, and among the remnant, those whom Yahweh calls.
Malachi 4:6
He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”
Matthew 3:3
For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, make the way of the Lord ready! Make his paths straight!”
Luke 1:16
He will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God.
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Micah 5:4
He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength of Yahweh, in the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God. They will live, for then he will be great to the ends of the earth.
Zechariah 9:15
Yahweh of Armies will defend them. They will destroy and overcome with sling stones. They will drink, and roar as through wine. They will be filled like bowls, like the corners of the altar.
Zechariah 10:3
My anger is kindled against the shepherds, and I will punish the male goats, for Yahweh of Armies has visited his flock, the house of Judah, and will make them as his majestic horse in the battle.
Zechariah 10:4
From him will come the cornerstone, from him the tent peg, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler together.
Zechariah 10:5
They will be as mighty men, treading down muddy streets in the battle. They will fight, because Yahweh is with them. The riders on horses will be confounded.
Zechariah 12:5
The chieftains of Judah will say in their heart, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in Yahweh of Armies their God.’
Zechariah 14:3
Then Yahweh will go out and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
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Amos 4:9
“I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards, and the swarming locusts have devoured your fig trees and your olive trees; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
Haggai 1:2
“This is what Yahweh of Armies says: These people say, ‘The time hasn’t yet come, the time for Yahweh’s house to be built.’ ”
Haggai 1:5
Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Consider your ways.
Haggai 1:7
“This is what Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Consider your ways.
Haggai 1:8
Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified,” says Yahweh.
Haggai 1:9
“You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says Yahweh of Armies, “Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.
Haggai 2:14
Then Haggai answered, “ ‘So is this people, and so is this nation before me,’ says Yahweh; ‘and so is every work of their hands. That which they offer there is unclean.
Haggai 2:15
Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in Yahweh’s temple.
Haggai 2:16
Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.
Zechariah 8:1
The word of Yahweh of Armies came to me.
Malachi 2:2
If you will not listen, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to my name,” says Yahweh of Armies, “then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart.
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Hosea 12:5
even Yahweh, the God of Armies. Yahweh is his name of renown!
Zechariah 1:7
On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, Yahweh’s word came to the prophet Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, saying,
Zechariah 1:10
The man who stood among the myrtle trees answered, “They are the ones Yahweh has sent to go back and forth through the earth.”
Zechariah 1:11
They reported to Yahweh’s angel who stood among the myrtle trees, and said, “We have walked back and forth through the earth, and behold, all the earth is at rest and in peace.”
Zechariah 1:14
So the angel who talked with me said to me, “Proclaim, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
Zechariah 1:15
I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.”
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.” ’
Zechariah 1:17
“Proclaim further, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and Yahweh will again comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem.” ’ ”
Zechariah 2:8
For Yahweh of Armies says: ‘For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.
Zechariah 3:7
“Yahweh of Armies says: ‘If you will walk in my ways, and if you will follow my instructions, then you also shall judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give you a place of access among these who stand by.
Zechariah 7:3
and to speak to the priests of the house of Yahweh of Armies and to the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?”
Malachi 1:2
“I have loved you,” says Yahweh. Yet you say, “How have you loved us?” “Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” says Yahweh, “Yet I loved Jacob;
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Zechariah 1:9
Then I asked, ‘My lord, what are these?’ ” The angel who talked with me said to me, “I will show you what these are.”
Zechariah 1:12
Then Yahweh’s angel replied, “O Yahweh of Armies, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?”
Zechariah 1:13
Yahweh answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words.
Zechariah 1:18
I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, four horns.
Zechariah 1:19
I asked the angel who talked with me, “What are these?” He answered me, “These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”
Zechariah 1:20
Yahweh showed me four craftsmen.
Zechariah 1:21
Then I asked, “What are these coming to do?” He said, “These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head; but these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations that lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.”
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Haggai 2:4
Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel,’ says Yahweh. ‘Be strong, Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land,’ says Yahweh, ‘and work, for I am with you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.
Haggai 2:9
‘The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former,’ says Yahweh of Armies; ‘and in this place I will give peace,’ says Yahweh of Armies.”
Zechariah 4:7
Who are you, great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you are a plain; and he will bring out the capstone with shouts of ‘Grace, grace, to it!’ ”
Zechariah 4:8
Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
Zechariah 4:9
“The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house. His hands shall also finish it; and you will know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you.
Zechariah 4:10
Indeed, who despises the day of small things? For these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. These are Yahweh’s eyes, which run back and forth through the whole earth.”
Zechariah 6:12
and speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “Behold, the man whose name is the Branch! He will grow up out of his place; and he will build Yahweh’s temple.
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2 Chronicles 30:8
Now don’t be stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.
Proverbs 29:1
He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.
Jeremiah 6:16
Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
Jeremiah 6:18
Therefore hear, you nations, and know, congregation, what is among them.
Jeremiah 6:19
Hear, earth! Behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.
Jeremiah 6:20
To what purpose does frankincense from Sheba come to me, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me.”
Zechariah 7:11
But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.
Zechariah 7:12
Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law and the words which Yahweh of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Armies.
Zechariah 7:13
It has come to pass that, as he called and they refused to listen, so they will call and I will not listen,” said Yahweh of Armies;
Zechariah 7:14
“but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned; for they made the pleasant land desolate.”
Acts 7:51
“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
Hebrews 12:25
See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
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Luke 11:47
Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
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Luke 11:48
So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs.
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Luke 11:32
The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, one greater than Jonah is here.
Luke 15:16
He wanted to fill his belly with the pods that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.
Luke 15:22
“But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet.
Luke 17:21
neither will they say, ‘Look, here!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ for behold, God’s Kingdom is within you.”
Luke 17:24
for as the lightning, when it flashes out of one part under the sky, shines to another part under the sky, so will the Son of Man be in his day.
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Luke 20:38
Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him.”
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Jeremiah 10:23
Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself. It is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
John 14:21
One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”
John 14:23
Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
John 15:5
I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
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Deuteronomy 32:36
For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, that there is no one remaining, shut up or left at large.
1 Samuel 7:6
They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before Yahweh, and fasted on that day, and said there, “We have sinned against Yahweh.” Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.
Isaiah 57:15
For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
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.
Hosea 11:4
I drew them with cords of a man, with ties of love; and I was to them like those who lift up the yoke on their necks; and I bent down to him and I fed him.
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.
Acts 3:19
“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,
Acts 26:19
“Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,
Romans 12:1
Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
2 Corinthians 12:21
that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness, sexual immorality, and lustfulness which they committed.
Titus 2:12
instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;
Titus 2:13
looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,
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Acts 17:11
Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
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Acts 17:12
Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.
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John 8:44
You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.
Ephesians 5:6
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
Philippians 2:12
So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Hebrews 6:1
Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let’s press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,
James 4:4
You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
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2 Chronicles 25:16
As he talked with him, the king said to him, “Have we made you one of the king’s counselors? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” Then the prophet stopped, and said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.”
Psalms 68:21
But God will strike through the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.
Psalms 130:4
But there is forgiveness with you, therefore you are feared.
Isaiah 1:16
Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.
Isaiah 27:9
Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more.
Jeremiah 25:5
saying, “Return now everyone from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that Yahweh has given to you and to your fathers, from of old and even forever more.
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?
Ephesians 4:22
that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,
James 1:22
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
1 Peter 2:1
Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
Revelation 2:21
I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.
Revelation 9:20
The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn’t repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn’t worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood, which can’t see, hear, or walk.
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