Zechariah 1:3

God's central appeal: 'Return to me, and I will return to you.' Genuine repentance is met with God's renewed nearness.

Cross-references · 26

• Jer 3:22“Return, O faithless children, and I will heal your faithlessness.” “Here we are. We come to You, for You are the LORD our God.
• Mal 3:7Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But you ask, ‘How can we return?’
• Joel 2:12“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”
• Jer 4:1“If you will return, O Israel, return to Me,” declares the LORD. “If you will remove your detestable idols from My sight and no longer waver,
• Deut 30:2–10and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything I am giving you today,
• Jer 12:15But after I have uprooted them, I will once again have compassion on them and return each one to his inheritance and to his land.
• Isa 31:6Return to the One against whom you have so blatantly rebelled, O children of Israel.
• Hos 6:1Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.
• Jas 4:8–10Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
• Luke 15:18–22I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.
• Ezek 33:11Say to them: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’
• Isa 55:6–7Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
• Jer 35:15Again and again I have sent you all My servants the prophets, proclaiming: ‘Turn now, each of you, from your wicked ways, and correct your actions. Do not go after other gods to serve them. Live in the land that I have given to you and your fathers.’ But you have not inclined your ear or listened to Me.
• Deut 4:30–31When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the LORD your God and listen to His voice.
• Jer 25:5The prophets told you, ‘Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways and deeds, and you can dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers forever and ever.
• Hos 14:4I will heal their apostasy; I will freely love them, for My anger has turned away from them.
• Jer 29:12–14Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
• Lam 3:39–41Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins?
• Mic 7:19–20He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.
• Jer 3:12–14Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not be angry forever.
• Hos 14:1Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.
• 2 Chr 15:4But in their distress they turned to the LORD, the God of Israel, and sought Him, and He was found by them.
• 1 Kgs 8:47–48and when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong; we have acted wickedly,’
• Jer 31:18–20I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.
• 2 Chr 30:6–9So the couriers went throughout Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his officials, which read: “Children of Israel, return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that He may return to those of you who remain, who have escaped the grasp of the kings of Assyria.
• Neh 9:28But as soon as they had rest, they again did evil in Your sight. So You abandoned them to the hands of their enemies, who had dominion over them. When they cried out to You again, You heard from heaven, and You delivered them many times in Your compassion.

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