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Jeremiah 4:3-4
This is what the Lord says to the people of Judah and Jerusalem:“ Plow up the hard ground of your hearts! Do not waste your good seed among thorns.O people of Judah and Jerusalem, surrender your pride and power. Change your hearts before the Lord, or my anger will burn like an unquenchable fire because of all your sins.
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Hosea 6:3
Oh, that we might know the Lord! Let us press on to know him. He will respond to us as surely as the arrival of dawn or the coming of rains in early spring.”
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Proverbs 11:18
Evil people get rich for the moment, but the reward of the godly will last.
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Isaiah 45:8
“ Open up, O heavens, and pour out your righteousness. Let the earth open wide so salvation and righteousness can sprout up together. I, the Lord, created them.
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James 3:18
And those who are peacemakers will plant seeds of peace and reap a harvest of righteousness.
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Isaiah 55:6
Seek the Lord while you can find him. Call on him now while he is near.
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Jeremiah 29:12-14
In those days when you pray, I will listen.If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me.I will be found by you,” says the Lord.“ I will end your captivity and restore your fortunes. I will gather you out of the nations where I sent you and will bring you home again to your own land.”
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Ecclesiastes 11:6
Plant your seed in the morning and keep busy all afternoon, for you don’t know if profit will come from one activity or another— or maybe both.
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Isaiah 44:3
For I will pour out water to quench your thirst and to irrigate your parched fields. And I will pour out my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your children.
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Luke 13:24
“ Work hard to enter the narrow door to God’s Kingdom, for many will try to enter but will fail.
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Zephaniah 2:1-3
Gather together— yes, gather together, you shameless nation.Gather before judgment begins, before your time to repent is blown away like chaff. Act now, before the fierce fury of the Lord falls and the terrible day of the Lord’s anger begins.Seek the Lord, all who are humble, and follow his commands. Seek to do what is right and to live humbly. Perhaps even yet the Lord will protect you— protect you from his anger on that day of destruction.
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Amos 5:15
Hate evil and love what is good; turn your courts into true halls of justice. Perhaps even yet the Lord God of Heaven’s Armies will have mercy on the remnant of his people.
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Hosea 12:6
So now, come back to your God. Act with love and justice, and always depend on him.
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Amos 5:4
Now this is what the Lord says to the family of Israel:“ Come back to me and live!
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Hosea 8:7
“ They have planted the wind and will harvest the whirlwind. The stalks of grain wither and produce nothing to eat. And even if there is any grain, foreigners will eat it.
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1 Corinthians 3 6-1 Corinthians 3 7
I planted the seed in your hearts, and Apollos watered it, but it was God who made it grow.It’s not important who does the planting, or who does the watering. What’s important is that God makes the seed grow.
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Acts 2:18
In those days I will pour out my Spirit even on my servants— men and women alike— and they will prophesy.
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Amos 5:6
Come back to the Lord and live! Otherwise, he will roar through Israel like a fire, devouring you completely. Your gods in Bethel won’t be able to quench the flames.
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Amos 5:8
It is the Lord who created the stars, the Pleiades and Orion. He turns darkness into morning and day into night. He draws up water from the oceans and pours it down as rain on the land. The Lord is his name!
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Isaiah 30:23
Then the Lord will bless you with rain at planting time. There will be wonderful harvests and plenty of pastureland for your livestock.
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Psalms 72:6
May the king’s rule be refreshing like spring rain on freshly cut grass, like the showers that water the earth.
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Ezekiel 34:26
I will bless my people and their homes around my holy hill. And in the proper season I will send the showers they need. There will be showers of blessing.
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Psalms 105:4
Search for the Lord and for his strength; continually seek him.
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Proverbs 18:21
The tongue can bring death or life; those who love to talk will reap the consequences.
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Isaiah 31:1
What sorrow awaits those who look to Egypt for help, trusting their horses, chariots, and charioteers and depending on the strength of human armies instead of looking to the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.
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Isaiah 5:6
I will make it a wild place where the vines are not pruned and the ground is not hoed, a place overgrown with briers and thorns. I will command the clouds to drop no rain on it.
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Isaiah 32:20
the Lord will greatly bless his people. Wherever they plant seed, bountiful crops will spring up. Their cattle and donkeys will graze freely.
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Jeremiah 50:4
“ In those coming days,” says the Lord,“ the people of Israel will return home together with the people of Judah. They will come weeping and seeking the Lord their God.
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Psalms 126:5-6
Those who plant in tears will harvest with shouts of joy.They weep as they go to plant their seed, but they sing as they return with the harvest.