But whenever one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
Parallel translations
- KJV Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
- BSB But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
- NKJV Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
- NASB but whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
- NLT But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
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- Exod 34:34But when Moses went in before Yahweh to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out, and spoke to the children of Israel that which he was commanded.
- Isa 25:7He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.
- Isa 29:18In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
- John 6:45–46It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father, and has learned, comes to me.
- Jer 31:34and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh;’ for they shall all know me, from their least to their greatest,” says Yahweh: “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.”
- Rom 11:23They also, if they don’t continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
- Rom 11:25–27For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,
- Lam 3:40Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.
- Isa 54:13All your children will be taught by Yahweh; and your children’s peace will be great.
- Deut 4:30When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God, and listen to his voice.
- Deut 30:10if you will obey Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul.
- Hos 3:4–5For the children of Israel shall live many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols.
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