2 Chronicles 30:8

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Now, don’t be stubborn like your fathers! Submit to the LORD and come to his sanctuary which he has permanently consecrated. Serve the LORD your God so that he might relent from his raging anger.

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  • 2 Chr 29:10 : 10 Now I intend to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, so that he may relent from his raging anger.
  • Exod 32:9 : 9 Then the LORD said to Moses:“I have seen this people. Look what a stiff-necked people they are!
  • Deut 10:16 : 16 Therefore, cleanse your heart and stop being so stubborn!
  • Josh 24:15 : 15 If you have no desire to worship the LORD, choose today whom you will worship, whether it be the gods whom your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But I and my family will worship the LORD.
  • 2 Kgs 23:26 : 26 Yet the LORD’s great anger against Judah did not subside; he was still infuriated by all the things Manasseh had done.
  • 1 Chr 29:24 : 24 All the officers and warriors, as well as all of King David’s sons, pledged their allegiance to King Solomon.
  • 2 Chr 28:11 : 11 Now listen to me! Send back those you have seized from your brothers, for the LORD is very angry at you!”
  • 2 Chr 28:13 : 13 They said to them,“Don’t bring those captives here! Are you planning on making us even more sinful and guilty before the LORD? Our guilt is already great and the LORD is very angry at Israel.”
  • Deut 6:13 : 13 You must revere the LORD your God, serve him, and take oaths using only his name.
  • Deut 6:17 : 17 Keep his commandments very carefully, as well as the stipulations and statutes he commanded you to observe.
  • 2 Chr 36:13 : 13 He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him vow allegiance in the name of God. He was stubborn and obstinate, and refused to return to the LORD God of Israel.
  • Ezra 10:19 : 19 (They gave their word to send away their wives; their guilt offering was a ram from the flock for their guilt.)
  • Ps 63:2 : 2 Yes, in the sanctuary I have seen you, and witnessed your power and splendor.
  • Ps 68:24 : 24 They see your processions, O God– the processions of my God, my king, who marches along in holy splendor.
  • Ps 68:31 : 31 They come with red cloth from Egypt, Ethiopia voluntarily offers tribute to God.
  • Ps 73:17 : 17 Then I entered the precincts of God’s temple, and understood the destiny of the wicked.
  • Ps 78:49 : 49 His raging anger lashed out against them, He sent fury, rage, and trouble as messengers who bring disaster.
  • Ps 132:13-14 : 13 Certainly the LORD has chosen Zion; he decided to make it his home. 14 He said,“This will be my resting place forever; I will live here, for I have chosen it.
  • Matt 4:10 : 10 Then Jesus said to him,“Go away, Satan! For it is written:‘You are to worship the Lord your God and serve only him.’”
  • John 12:26 : 26 If anyone wants to serve me, he must follow me, and where I am, my servant will be too. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
  • Rom 6:13-19 : 13 and do not present your members to sin as instruments to be used for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments to be used for righteousness. 14 For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace. 15 The Believer’s Enslavement to God’s Righteousness What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not! 16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves to sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching you were entrusted to, 18 and having been freed from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness. 19 (I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
  • Rom 6:22 : 22 But now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.
  • Rom 10:21 : 21 But about Israel he says,“All day long I held out my hands to this disobedient and stubborn people!”
  • Col 3:22-24 : 22 Slaves, obey your earthly masters in every respect, not only when they are watching– like those who are strictly people-pleasers– but with a sincere heart, fearing the Lord. 23 Whatever you are doing, work at it with enthusiasm, as to the Lord and not for people, 24 because you know that you will receive your inheritance from the Lord as the reward. Serve the Lord Christ.
  • Rev 7:15 : 15 For this reason they are before the throne of God, and they serve him day and night in his temple, and the one seated on the throne will shelter them.

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