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Nehemiah 1:9
But if you return to me and carefully observe my commands, even though your exiles were banished to the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place where I chose to have my name dwell.”
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Joel 2:12-13
Even now— this is the LORD’s declaration— turn to me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.Tear your hearts, not just your clothes, and return to the LORD your God. For he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in faithful love, and he relents from sending disaster.
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Lamentations 3:40
Let’s examine and probe our ways, and turn back to the LORD.
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Deuteronomy 13:3
do not listen to that prophet’s words or to that dreamer. For the LORD your God is testing you to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and all your soul.
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Deuteronomy 6:5
Love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
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Jeremiah 4:14
Wash the evil from your heart, Jerusalem, so that you will be delivered. How long will you harbor malicious thoughts?
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Lamentations 3:32
Even if he causes suffering, he will show compassion according to the abundance of his faithful love.
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Hosea 6:1-2
Come, let’s return to the LORD. For he has torn us, and he will heal us; he has wounded us, and he will bind up our wounds.He will revive us after two days, and on the third day he will raise us up so we can live in his presence.
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Ephesians 6:24
Grace be with all who have undying love for our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Isaiah 55:6-7
Seek the LORD while he may be found; call to him while he is near.Let the wicked one abandon his way and the sinful one his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, so he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will freely forgive.
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1 Chronicles 29 9
Then the people rejoiced because of their leaders’ willingness to give, for they had given to the LORD wholeheartedly. King David also rejoiced greatly.
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Hosea 14:1-3
Israel, return to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled in your iniquity.Take words of repentance with you and return to the LORD. Say to him,“ Forgive all our iniquity and accept what is good, so that we may repay you with praise from our lips.Assyria will not save us, we will not ride on horses, and we will no longer proclaim,‘ Our gods!’ to the work of our hands. For the fatherless receives compassion in you.”
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Hosea 3:5
Afterward, the people of Israel will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come with awe to the LORD and to his goodness in the last days.
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Deuteronomy 4:28-31
There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see, hear, eat, or smell.But from there, you will search for the LORD your God, and you will find him when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul.When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, in the future you will return to the LORD your God and obey him.He will not leave you, destroy you, or forget the covenant with your ancestors that he swore to them by oath, because the LORD your God is a compassionate God.
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1 John 1 9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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Psalms 119:80
May my heart be blameless regarding your statutes so that I will not be put to shame.
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Jeremiah 3:10
Yet in spite of all this, her treacherous sister Judah didn’t return to me with all her heart— only in pretense.” This is the LORD’s declaration.
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Psalms 41:12
You supported me because of my integrity and set me in your presence forever.
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2 Corinthians 3 16
but whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.
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Jeremiah 29:13
You will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart.
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1 Chronicles 29 17
I know, my God, that you test the heart and that you are pleased with what is right. I have willingly given all these things with an upright heart, and now I have seen your people who are present here giving joyfully and willingly to you.
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Zechariah 12:10
“ Then I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the house of David and the residents of Jerusalem, and they will look at me whom they pierced. They will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child and weep bitterly for him as one weeps for a firstborn.