Leviticus 26:40

Restoration begins when Israel confesses their sin and their fathers' unfaithfulness. Honest confession is the turning point back to God.

Cross-references · 20

• Prov 28:13He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
• Neh 9:2–5The offspring of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
• 1 Jn 1:8–10If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
• Hos 5:15I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”
• Num 5:7then he shall confess his sin which he has done, and he shall make restitution for his guilt in full, and add to it the fifth part of it, and give it to him in respect of whom he has been guilty.
• 1 Kgs 8:33–36“When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you; if they turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray and make supplication to you in this house;
• Deut 30:1–3It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, where Yahweh your God has driven you,
• 1 Kgs 8:47yet if they repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned, and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly;’
• Jer 31:18–20“I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.
• Lev 26:24then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins.
• Job 33:27–28He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.
• Lev 26:21“‘If you walk contrary to me, and won’t listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.
• Ps 32:5I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
• Ezek 36:31Then you shall remember your evil ways, and your doings that were not good; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
• Lev 26:27–28“‘If you in spite of this won’t listen to me, but walk contrary to me;
• Josh 7:19Joshua said to Achan, “My son, please give glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and make confession to him. Tell me now what you have done! Don’t hide it from me!”
• Deut 4:29–31But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
• Dan 9:3–20I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
• Luke 15:18–19I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.
• Jer 3:12–15Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, you backsliding Israel,’ says Yahweh; ‘I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will not keep anger forever.

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