32 Bible Verses about Returning To God

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Hosea 14:1

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

Zechariah 1:3

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

Nehemiah 1:9

but if you return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet will I gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.'

Job 22:23

If you return to Shaddai, you shall be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.

Hosea 12:6

Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.

Joshua 7:20

Achan answered Joshua, and said, "I have truly sinned against the LORD, the God of Israel, and this is what I have done.

1 Samuel 15:24-25

Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice. Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD."

Matthew 27:3-4

Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, "I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us? You see to it."

2 Chronicles 15:4

But when in their distress they turned to the LORD, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.

Jeremiah 4:1

"If you will return, Israel," says the LORD, "if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you shall not be removed;

Jeremiah 3:12

Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, 'Return, you backsliding Israel,' says the LORD; 'I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,' says the LORD. 'I will not keep anger forever.

Jeremiah 3:14

"Return, backsliding children," says the LORD; "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 3:22

"Return, you backsliding children, I will heal your backsliding." "Behold, we have come to you; for you are the LORD our God.

Isaiah 31:6

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

Isaiah 55:7

let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Hosea 14:2

Take words with you, and return to the LORD. Tell him, "Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good, and we will offer the fruit of our lips

Malachi 3:7

From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you," says the LORD of hosts. "But you say, 'How shall we return?'

Jeremiah 15:19

Therefore thus says the LORD, "If you return, then will I bring you again, that you may stand before me; and if you take forth the precious from the vile, you shall be as my mouth: they shall return to you, but you shall not return to them.

Deuteronomy 4:30

When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to the LORD your God, and listen to his voice:

Isaiah 19:22

The LORD will strike Egypt, striking and healing. They will return to the LORD, and he will listen to their pleas, and will heal them.

Isaiah 10:21

A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

Psalm 51:13

Then I will teach transgressors your ways. Sinners shall be converted to you.

Deuteronomy 30:2

and shall return to the LORD your God, and shall obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul;

1 Samuel 7:3

Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, "If you do return to the LORD with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to the LORD, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines."

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Isaiah 44:22

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.

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Isaiah 55:7

let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Psalm 78:34

When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.

Returning to God » Promises to those who come in contrition

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Amos 4:6

"I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven't returned to me," says the LORD.

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