1 Samuel 7:3

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Summary

And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.

Return

Prepare

Serve him

General references

Ecclesiastes 9:17

Bible References

Return

and you return to the Lord your God and obey Him with all your heart and soul according to all that I command you today, you and your sons,

if they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who have taken them captive, and pray to You toward their land which You have given to their fathers, the city which You have chosen, and the house which I have built for Your name;

Let the wicked forsake his way

And the unrighteous man his thoughts;
And let him return to the Lord,
And He will have compassion on him,
And to our God,
For He will abundantly pardon.

“Come, let us return to the Lord.
For He has torn us, but He will heal us;
He has wounded us, but He will bandage us.

Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,

For you have stumbled because of your iniquity.

“Yet even now,” declares the Lord,
“Return to Me with all your heart,
And with fasting, weeping and mourning;

Prepare

“Moreover the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.

Now set your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God; arise, therefore, and build the sanctuary of the Lord God, so that you may bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord and the holy vessels of God into the house that is to be built for the name of the Lord.”

“As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a whole heart and a willing mind; for the Lord searches all hearts, and understands every intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will let you find Him; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.

everyone who prepares his heart to seek God, the Lord God of his fathers, though not according to the purification rules of the sanctuary.”

“If you would direct your heart right
And spread out your hand to Him,

The plans of the heart belong to man,
But the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.

For thus says the Lord to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem,
“

Break up your fallow ground,

And do not sow among thorns.

Cast away from you all your transgressions which you have committed and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! For why will you die, O house of Israel?

‘This people honors Me with their lips,
But their heart is far away from Me.

God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Serve him

You shall fear only the Lord your God; and you shall worship Him and swear by His name.

You shall fear the Lord your God; you shall serve Him and cling to Him, and you shall swear by His name.

You shall follow the Lord your God and fear Him; and you shall keep His commandments, listen to His voice, serve Him, and cling to Him.

Then Jesus *said to him, “Go, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and

serve Him only

.’”

“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and

wealth.

Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’”

General references

The words of the wise heard in quietness are better than the shouting of a ruler among fools.