Hosea 12:6

God's Case Against Jacob's Heirs

⁵ even Yahweh, the God of Armies; Yahweh is his name of renown! ⁶ Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God. ⁷ A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.

Hope in God

Righteousness and Justice

Love And Justice

Micah 6:8

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

Hosea 14:1

Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.

Joel 2:13

Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.

Genesis 49:18

I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.

Psalm 27:14

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh. By David.

Psalm 37:7

Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don't fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

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 Yahweh, our God, until he has mercy on us.

Psalm 130:5-7

I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.

Proverbs 1:23

Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.

Proverbs 21:3

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

Isaiah 1:16

Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.

Isaiah 8:17

I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

Isaiah 30:18

Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

Isaiah 31:6

Return to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel.

Isaiah 40:31

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

Isaiah 55:6-7

Seek Yahweh while he may be found; call you on him while he is near:

Isaiah 58:6

"Isn't this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?

Jeremiah 3:14-22

"Return, backsliding children," says Yahweh; "for I am a husband to you. I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

Jeremiah 22:15

Shall you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn't your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? then it was well with him.

Lamentations 3:25-26

Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.

Lamentations 3:39-41

Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of Yahweh, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: "Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

Hosea 6:1-3

"Come, and let us return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.

Hosea 10:12

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

Amos 5:24

But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Micah 7:7

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

Habakkuk 2:3

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won't prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won't delay.

Zephaniah 3:8

"Therefore wait for me," says Yahweh, "until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

Zechariah 1:3

Therefore tell them: Thus says Yahweh of Armies: 'Return to me,' says Yahweh of Armies, 'and I will return to you,' says Yahweh of Armies.

Zechariah 7:9

"Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, 'Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

Zechariah 8:16

These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,

Acts 2:38

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

Acts 26:20

but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

James 2:13

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