Verse 40

Let us search and examine our ways and turn back to the LORD.

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  • Ps 119:59 : 59 I considered my ways and turned my feet to Your testimonies.
  • 2 Cor 13:5 : 5 Examine yourselves, whether you are in the faith; prove your own selves. Do you not know your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are reprobates?
  • Job 11:13-15 : 13 If you prepare your heart, and stretch out your hands toward Him; 14 If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and do not let wickedness dwell in your tents. 15 For then you shall lift up your face without blemish; yes, you shall be steadfast and shall not fear:
  • 2 Chr 30:6 : 6 So the couriers went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, You children of Israel, return to the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and He will return to you who are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
  • Ps 139:23-24 : 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts; 24 And see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
  • Isa 55:7 : 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
  • Ezek 18:28 : 28 Because he considers and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
  • Hos 6:1 : 1 Come, and let us return to the LORD: for he has torn, and he will heal us; he has struck us, and he will bind us up.
  • Hos 12:6 : 6 Therefore, turn to your God: keep mercy and justice, and wait on your God continually.
  • Hos 14:1-3 : 1 O Israel, return to the LORD your God; for you have fallen by your iniquity. 2 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say to him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so we will offer the sacrifice of our lips. 3 Assyria will not save us; we will not ride on horses: neither will we say anymore to the work of our hands, You are our gods: for in you the orphan finds mercy.
  • Joel 2:12-13 : 12 Therefore also now, says the LORD, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning. 13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and he repents of the evil.
  • Hag 1:5-9 : 5 Now therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways. 6 You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but do not have enough; you drink, but are not filled; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes. 7 Thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways. 8 Go up to the mountains, bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it and be glorified, says the LORD. 9 You looked for much, but indeed it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? says the LORD of hosts. Because of My house that is in ruins, while each of you runs to his own house.
  • Zech 1:3-4 : 3 Therefore say to them, Thus says the LORD of hosts: Turn to Me, says the LORD of hosts, and I will turn to you, says the LORD of hosts. 4 Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying, Thus says the LORD of hosts: Turn now from your evil ways and from your evil deeds. But they did not hear nor listen to Me, says the LORD.
  • Acts 26:20 : 20 But showed first to those of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works fitting for repentance.
  • 1 Cor 11:28 : 28 But let a person examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.
  • 1 Cor 11:31 : 31 For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged.
  • 2 Chr 30:9 : 9 For if you turn again to the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before those that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away His face from you, if you return to Him.
  • Deut 4:30 : 30 When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you, even in the latter days, if you turn to the LORD your God, and be obedient to his voice;
  • Job 34:31-32 : 31 Surely it is proper to say to God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend anymore; 32 That which I do not see, teach me; if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.
  • Ps 4:4 : 4 Stand in awe, and do not sin: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
  • 1 Chr 15:12-13 : 12 And said to them, You are the chief of the fathers of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both you and your brethren, that you may bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel to the place I have prepared for it. 13 For because you did not do it at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for we did not seek Him after the due order.