Lamentations 3:40

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

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  • Ps 119:59 : 59 I have considered my ways and turned my steps to Your testimonies.
  • 2 Cor 13:5 : 5 Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you—unless, of course, you fail the test?
  • Job 11:13-15 : 13 If you would set your heart right and stretch out your hands toward Him, 14 if iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and do not let wrongdoing dwell in your tent, 15 then you will lift up your face without blemish; you will stand firm and not fear.
  • 2 Chr 30:6 : 6 Couriers went with the letters from the king and his officials throughout Israel and Judah, proclaiming the king’s command: 'Return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that He may return to the remnant of you who have escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria.'
  • Ps 139:23-24 : 23 Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24 See if there is any offensive 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, so that He may have compassion on him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.
  • Ezek 18:28 : 28 Because they consider all the offenses they have committed and turn away from them, they will surely live; they will not die.
  • Hos 6:1 : 1 Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us, but He will heal us; He has struck us down, but He will bind us up.
  • Hos 12:6 : 6 The LORD, the God of hosts—the LORD is his name of renown.
  • Hos 14:1-3 : 1 Samaria will be found guilty, for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their infants will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open. 2 Return, Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled because of your sins. 3 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 sacrifice of our lips.'
  • Joel 2:12-13 : 12 Even now, declares the LORD, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning. 13 Tear open your hearts, not your garments, and return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love, and he relents from sending calamity.
  • Hag 1:5-9 : 5 Now, this is what the LORD of Hosts says: Consider carefully your ways. 6 You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but are never satisfied. You drink but never have enough to be filled. You put on clothes but are not warm. The one who earns wages earns them to put into a bag with holes. 7 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: Consider carefully your ways. 8 Go up into the mountains, bring down timber, and build the house, so that I may be pleased with it and be glorified, says the LORD. 9 You expected much, but it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew it away. Why?” declares the LORD of Hosts. “Because My house remains in ruins, while each of you is busy with your own house.
  • Zech 1:3-4 : 3 Therefore, say to them: 'This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Return to me,' declares the Lord of Hosts, 'and I will return to you,' says the Lord of Hosts. 4 Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the earlier prophets proclaimed: 'This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Turn now from your evil ways and your evil deeds.' But they would not listen or pay attention to me, declares the Lord.
  • Acts 26:20 : 20 Instead, I preached first to those in Damascus and in Jerusalem, and then to all the region of Judea and to the Gentiles, that they should repent, turn to God, and demonstrate their repentance by their deeds.
  • 1 Cor 11:28 : 28 Let a person examine himself, and in this way let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.
  • 1 Cor 11:31 : 31 But if we were more discerning with regard to ourselves, we would not come under judgment.
  • 2 Chr 30:9 : 9 If you return to the LORD, your brothers and your children will be shown compassion by those who took them captive, and they will return to this land. For the LORD your God is gracious and compassionate. He will not turn His face from you if you return to Him.
  • Deut 4:30 : 30 When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you in the latter days, you will return to the LORD your God and listen to His voice.
  • Job 34:31-32 : 31 Suppose someone says to God, 'I have borne punishment; I will not offend anymore.' 32 'Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do it again.'
  • Ps 4:4 : 4 Know that the LORD has set apart the godly for Himself; the LORD hears when I call to Him.
  • 1 Chr 15:12-13 : 12 He said to them, "You are the heads of the Levitical families. Consecrate yourselves, you and your relatives, so that you may bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel, to the place I prepared for it. 13 For because you did not carry it the first time, the LORD our God broke out against us, since we did not seek Him according to the proper procedure."

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