Hosea 12:6

God's Case Against Jacob's Heirs

⁵ the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD is his memorial name: ⁶ Therefore, return to your God,
Observe kindness and justice,
And wait for your God continually.
⁷ A merchant, in whose hands are false balances, he loves to oppress.

Hope in God

Righteousness and Justice

Love And Justice

Micah 6:8

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Hosea 14:1

Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.

Joel 2:13

and rend your hearts and not your garments." Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.

Genesis 49:18

I wait for your salvation, O LORD.

Psalm 27:14

Wait for the LORD; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the LORD!

Psalm 37:7

Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!

Psalm 123:2

Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the LORD our God, till he has mercy upon us.

Psalm 130:5-7

I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I hope;

Proverbs 1:23

If you turn at my reproof, behold, I will pour out my spirit to you; I will make my words known to you.

Proverbs 21:3

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

Isaiah 1:16

Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil,

Isaiah 8:17

I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him.

Isaiah 30:18

Therefore the LORDwaits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the LORD is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.

Isaiah 31:6

Turn to him from whom people have deeply revolted, O children of Israel.

Isaiah 40:31

but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Isaiah 55:6-7

"Seek the LORD while he may be found; call upon him while he is near;

Isaiah 58:6

"Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?

Jeremiah 3:14-22

Return, O faithless children, declares the LORD; for I am your master; I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

Jeremiah 22:15

Do you think you are a king because you compete in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.

Lamentations 3:25-26

The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

Lamentations 3:39-41

Why should a living man complain, a man, about the punishment of his sins?

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land;

Hosea 6:1-3

"Come, let us return to the LORD; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.

Hosea 10:12

Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the LORD, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.

Amos 5:24

But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

Micah 7:7

But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.

Habakkuk 2:3

For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end--it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.

Zephaniah 3:8

"Therefore wait for me," declares the LORD, "for the day when I rise up to seize the prey. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all my burning anger; for in the fire of my jealousy all the earth shall be consumed.

Zechariah 1:3

Therefore say to them, Thus declares the LORD of hosts: Return to me, says the LORD of hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts.

Zechariah 7:9

"Thus says the LORD of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,

Zechariah 8:16

These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace;

Acts 2:38

And Peter said to them, "Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Acts 26:20

but declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds in keeping with their repentance.

James 1:27

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

James 2:13

For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.