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Nehemiah 1:9
but if you return to me and obey my commands, then even if your exiled people are at the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for my Name.’
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Joel 2:12-13
“ Even now,” declares the Lord,“ return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.”Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity.
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Lamentations 3:40
Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord.
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Deuteronomy 13:3
you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. The Lord your God is testing you to find out whether you love him with all your heart and with all your soul.
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Deuteronomy 6:5
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
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Jeremiah 4:14
Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart and be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts?
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Lamentations 3:32
Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love.
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Hosea 6:1-2
“ Come, let us return to the Lord. He has torn us to pieces but he will heal us; he has injured us but he will bind up our wounds.After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will restore us, that we may live in his presence.
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Ephesians 6:24
Grace to all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.
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Isaiah 55:6-7
Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near.Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
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1 Chronicles 29 9
The people rejoiced at the willing response of their leaders, for they had given freely and wholeheartedly to the Lord. David the king also rejoiced greatly.
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Hosea 14:1-3
Return, Israel, to the Lord your God. Your sins have been your downfall!Take words with you and return to the Lord. Say to him:“ Forgive all our sins and receive us graciously, that we may offer the fruit of our lips.Assyria cannot save us; we will not mount warhorses. We will never again say‘ Our gods’ to what our own hands have made, for in you the fatherless find compassion.”
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Hosea 3:5
Afterward the Israelites will return and seek the Lord their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the Lord and to his blessings 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 or hear or eat or smell.But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the Lord your God and obey him.For the Lord your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or destroy you or forget the covenant with your ancestors, which he confirmed to them by oath.
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1 John 1 9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
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Psalms 119:80
May I wholeheartedly follow your decrees, that I may not be put to shame.
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Jeremiah 3:10
In spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the Lord.
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Psalms 41:12
Because of my integrity you uphold me and set me in your presence forever.
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2 Corinthians 3 16
But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
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Jeremiah 29:13
You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
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1 Chronicles 29 17
I know, my God, that you test the heart and are pleased with integrity. All these things I have given willingly and with honest intent. And now I have seen with joy how willingly your people who are here have given to you.
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Zechariah 12:10
“ And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.