Lamentations 3:40

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Lamentations 3:40

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.

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And said to them, You are the heads of the families of the Levites: make yourselves holy, you and your brothers, so that you may take the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the place which I have made ready for it.

But if you put your heart right, stretching out your hands to him;

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Let there be fear in your hearts, and do no sin; have bitter feelings on your bed, but make no sound. (Selah.)

I gave thought to my steps, and my feet were turned into the way of your unchanging word.

O God, let the secrets of my heart be uncovered, and let my wandering thoughts be tested:

Because he had fear and was turned away from all the wrong which he had done, life will certainly be his, death will not be his fate.

For this cause the Lord of armies has said, Give thought to your ways.

But let no man take of the bread and the cup without testing himself.

Make a test of yourselves, if you are in the faith; make certain of yourselves. Or are you not conscious in yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you, if you are truly Christ's?

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When you are in trouble and all these things have come on you, if, in the future, you are turned again to the Lord your God, and give ear to his voice:

So runners went with letters from the king and his chiefs through all Israel and Judah, by the order of the king, saying, O children of Israel, come back again to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that he may come again to that small band of you which has been kept safe out of the hands of the kings of Assyria.

Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.

Come, let us go back to the Lord; for he has given us wounds and he will make us well; he has given blows and he will give help.

So then, come back to your God; keep mercy and right, and be waiting at all times on your God.

O Israel, come back to the Lord your God; for your evil-doing has been the cause of your fall.

But even now, says the Lord, come back to me with all your heart, keeping from food, with weeping and with sorrow:

And you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord of armies: Come back to me, says the Lord of armies, and I will come back to you.

But I went about, first to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, and through all the country of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, preaching a change of heart, so that they, being turned to God, might give, in their works, the fruits of a changed heart.