Deuteronomy 30:2

If they return to God and obey wholeheartedly, restoration follows. Genuine, heartfelt repentance is the way back to God.

Cross-references · 22

• Joel 2:12–13“Yet even now,” says Yahweh, “turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”
• Deut 4:28–31There you shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
• Neh 1:9but if you return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.’
• 1 Jn 1:9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
• Eph 6:24Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. Amen.
• Lam 3:40Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.
• 2 Cor 3:16But whenever one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
• 1 Chr 29:9Then the people rejoiced, because they offered willingly, because with a perfect heart they offered willingly to Yahweh; and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.
• Jer 3:10Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense,” says Yahweh.
• Deut 6:5You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
• Jer 4:14Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
• Hos 3:5Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.
• Ps 41:12As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever.
• Zech 12:10I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.
• Ps 119:80Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees, that I may not be disappointed. KAF
• Hos 6:1–2“Come, and let us return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.
• Jer 29:13You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.
• Isa 55:6–7Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
• Hos 14:1–3Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.
• 1 Chr 29:17I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.
• Deut 13:3you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for Yahweh your God is testing you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
• Lam 3:32For though he cause grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

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