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Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Job 22:23-30 OT

  If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents. Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks. The Almighty will be your treasure, and precious…

• Psalms 17:5 OT

  My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.

• Psalms 56:13 OT

  For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

• Psalms 81:13 OT

  Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

• Psalms 81:14 OT

  I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.

• Isaiah 42:3 OT

  He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice.

• Isaiah 57:18 OT

  I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.

• Isaiah 57:19 OT

  I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near,” says Yahweh; “and I will heal them.”

• Jeremiah 3:4-7 OT

  Will you not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the guide of my youth?’ “ ‘Will he retain his anger forever? Will he keep it to the end?’ Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way.” Moreover,…

• Jeremiah 3:12-22 OT

  Go, 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. Only acknowledge your iniquity, that…

• Jeremiah 4:1 OT

  “If you will return, Israel,” says Yahweh, “if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you will not be removed;

• Jeremiah 4:2 OT

  and you will swear, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. The nations will bless themselves in him, and they will glory in him.”

• Jeremiah 4:14 OT

  Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?

• Jeremiah 6:16 OT

  Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

• Hosea 14:4 OT

  “I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from him.

• Zechariah 10:6 OT

  “I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them back; for I have mercy on them; and they will be as though I had not cast them off: for I am Yahweh their God, and I will hear them.

• Malachi 3:7 OT

  From the days of your fathers you have turned away from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says Yahweh of Armies. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’

• Matthew 23:37 NT

  “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

• Revelation 3:8 NT

  “I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.

• Revelation 3:15-21 NT

  “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot. So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of my mouth. Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have…

• Psalms 80:3-7 OT

  Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved. Yahweh God of Armies, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people? You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large…

• Psalms 80:14-19 OT

  Turn again, we beg you, God of Armies. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine, the stock which your right hand planted, the branch that you made strong for yourself. It’s burned with fire. It’s cut down. They perish at your…

• Isaiah 17:7 OT

  In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.

• Isaiah 29:24 OT

  They also who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will receive instruction.”