Lamentations 3:40

The right response to suffering is to examine our ways and turn back to the Lord in repentance.

Cross-references · 21

• 2 Cor 13:5Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
• Ps 139:23–24Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
• Joel 2:12–13Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
• Ps 4:4Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
• Isa 55:7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
• Ps 119:59I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
• Hag 1:5–9Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
• Hos 6:1Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
• Hos 14:1–3O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
• 1 Cor 11:28But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
• 2 Chr 30:9For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them 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 ye return unto him.
• 1 Cor 11:31For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
• 2 Chr 30:6So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
• Ezek 18:28Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
• Deut 4:30When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;
• Zech 1:3–4Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.
• Acts 26:20But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
• Job 34:31–32Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:
• Job 11:13–15If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;
• Hos 12:6Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.
• 1 Chr 15:12–13And said unto them, Ye are the chief of the fathers of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel unto the place that I have prepared for it.

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