Hosea 12:6

God's Case Against Jacob's Heirs

⁵ Jehovah is the God of Hosts. Jehovah is the name by which he is remembered. ⁶ Therefore, return to your God,
Observe kindness and justice,
And wait for your God continually.
⁷ Jehovah says: The merchants use dishonest scales. They love to cheat people.

Hope in God

Righteousness and Justice

Love And Justice

Micah 6:8

He told you, O lowly man, what is good and what Jehovah requires of you. You should display justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with your God!

Hosea 14:1

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

Joel 2:13

Rip apart your heart, and not your garments. Turn to Jehovah your God! He is gracious and merciful. He is slow to anger and abundant in loving-kindness. He will turn back from doing harm.

Genesis 49:18

I wait with hope for your salvation, O Jehovah.

Psalm 27:14

Hope (wait) (expect) (trust) in Jehovah and be strong. Let your heart be courageous. Yes, hope in Jehovah.

Psalm 37:7

Surrender to Jehovah and wait patiently for him. Do not be preoccupied with an evildoer who succeeds in his way when he carries out his schemes.

Psalm 123:2

Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to Jehovah our God, until he is gracious to us.

Psalm 130:5-7

I wait for Jehovah, I do wait. And in his word I do hope.

Proverbs 1:23

Listen when I reprove you. I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make my words known to you.

Proverbs 21:3

To practice righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice.

Isaiah 1:16

Wash yourselves! Become clean! Get your evil deeds out of my sight. Stop doing evil.

Isaiah 8:17

I will wait for Jehovah, who hides his face from the descendants of Jacob. I will hope in him.

Isaiah 30:18

Jehovah is waiting to be kind to you. He rises to have compassion on you. Jehovah is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

Isaiah 31:6

Return you people of Israel, return to the one whom you have so violently rebelled against.

Isaiah 40:31

Those who hope in Jehovah will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary! They will walk and not be faint.

Isaiah 55:6-7

Seek Jehovah while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

Isaiah 58:6

Is this not the fast I choose to loosen the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free and break every yoke?

Jeremiah 3:14-22

Return, you disobedient people, proclaims Jehovah. I am your husband. I will take you, one from every city and two from every family, and bring you to Zion.'

Jeremiah 22:15

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

Lamentations 3:25-26

Jehovah is good to those who are waiting for him, to the person seeking him.

Lamentations 3:39-41

What protest may a living man make? Can a man protest about the punishment for his sin?

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of Jehovah, you children of Israel! For Jehovah has a legal case against the inhabitants of the land. There is no truth! There is no goodness. There is no knowledge of God in the land.

Hosea 6:1-3

Come, and let us return to Jehovah. He has torn us to pieces but he will heal us. He has wounded us but he will bandage us.

Hosea 10:12

I said: Plow new ground for yourselves, plant righteousness, and reap the blessings that your devotion to me will produce. It is time for you to turn to me, Jehovah, and I will come and pour out righteousness on you.

Amos 5:24

Justice should roll down as waters and righteousness as a mighty stream.

Micah 7:7

But as for me, I will look to Jehovah! I will wait for the God of my salvation! My God will hear me.

Habakkuk 2:3

The vision is yet for the appointed time. It moves quickly to the end. It will not lie! If it delays, wait for it for it will surely come. It will not be late!

Zephaniah 3:8

Wait for me, said Jehovah, until the day that I rise up as a witness. I am determined to gather the nations. I will assemble the kingdoms to pour out upon them my indignation, even all my fierce anger! All the earth will be devoured with the fire of my zeal.

Zechariah 1:3

Tell them, Jehovah of Hosts has said: Jehovah of Hosts says return to me and I will return to you.

Zechariah 7:9

Jehovah of Hosts has spoken: Every man should execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion to his brother!

Zechariah 8:16

These are the things that you should do. Every man should speak the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates (towns).

Acts 2:38

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

Acts 26:20

I preached first to Damascus, and to Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then to the people of the nations, that they should repent and turn to God, and prove their repentance by deeds.

James 1:27

Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for the fatherless persons and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself without spot from the world.

James 2:13

For judgment is without mercy to him who shows no mercy. And mercy triumphs over judgment.