Hosea 12:6

God's Case Against Jacob's Heirs

⁵ even Jehovah, the God of hosts, Jehovah is his memorial. ⁶ And thou, return unto thy God: keep loving-kindness and judgment, and wait on thy God continually. ⁷ He is a merchant, balances of deceit are in his hand; he loveth to oppress.

Hope in God

Righteousness and Justice

Love And Justice

Micah 6:8

He hath shewn thee, O man, what is good: and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love goodness, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Hosea 14:1

O Israel, return unto Jehovah thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.

Joel 2:13

and rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto Jehovah your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving-kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.

Genesis 49:18

I wait for thy salvation, O Jehovah.

Psalm 27:14

Wait for Jehovah; be strong and let thy heart take courage: yea, wait for Jehovah.

Psalm 37:7

Rest in Jehovah, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him that prospereth in his way, because of the man that bringeth mischievous devices to pass.

Psalm 123:2

Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress, so our eyes are directed to Jehovah our God, until he be gracious unto us.

Psalm 130:5-7

I wait for Jehovah; my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.

Proverbs 1:23

Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour forth my spirit unto you, I will make known to you my words.

Proverbs 21:3

To exercise justice and judgment is more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice.

Isaiah 1:16

Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil,

Isaiah 8:17

And I will wait for Jehovah, who hideth his face from the house of Jacob; and I will look for him.

Isaiah 30:18

And therefore will Jehovah wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he lift himself up, that he may have mercy upon you; for Jehovah is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.

Isaiah 31:6

Turn unto him from whom ye have deeply revolted, ye children of Israel;

Isaiah 40:31

but they that wait upon Jehovah shall renew their strength: they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not tire; they shall walk, and not faint.

Isaiah 55:6-7

Seek ye Jehovah while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near.

Isaiah 58:6

Is not this the fast which I have chosen: to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the thongs of the yoke, and to send forth free the crushed, and that ye break every yoke?

Jeremiah 3:14-22

Return, backsliding children, saith Jehovah; for I am a husband unto you, and I will take you, one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

Jeremiah 22:15

Shalt thou reign, because thou viest with the cedar? Did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice? Then it was well with him.

Lamentations 3:25-26

Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.

Lamentations 3:39-41

Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of Jehovah, ye children of Israel; for Jehovah hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land; for there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

Hosea 6:1-3

Come and let us return unto Jehovah: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

Hosea 10:12

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek Jehovah, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.

Amos 5:24

but let judgment roll down as waters, and righteousness as an ever-flowing stream.

Micah 7:7

But as for me, I will look unto Jehovah; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.

Habakkuk 2:3

For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but it hasteth to the end, and shall not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; for it will surely come, it will not delay.

Zephaniah 3:8

Therefore wait ye for me, saith Jehovah, until the day that I rise up to the prey; for my determination is to assemble the nations, that I may gather the kingdoms together, to pour upon them mine indignation, all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

Zechariah 1:3

And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Return unto me, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I will return unto you, saith Jehovah of hosts.

Zechariah 7:9

Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew loving-kindness and mercies one to another,

Zechariah 8:16

These are the things that ye shall do: Speak truth every one with his neighbour; execute truth and the judgment of peace in your gates;

Acts 2:38

And Peter said to them, Repent, and be baptised, each one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for remission of sins, and ye will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Acts 26:20

but have, first to those both in Damascus and Jerusalem, and to all the region of Judaea, and to the nations, announced that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

James 1:27

Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

James 2:13

for judgment will be without mercy to him that has shewn no mercy. Mercy glories over judgment.