Zechariah 1:3 Cross References

Zechariah 1:3

3: Therefore, say to the people, `This is what the LORD Almighty says: Return to me, and I will return to you, says the LORD Almighty.'

Malachi 3:7

  1. Ever since the days of your ancestors, you have scorned my laws and failed to obey them. Now return to me, and I will return to you," says the LORD Almighty. "But you ask, `How can we return when we have never gone away?'

Deuteronomy 30:2

  1. If at that time you return to the LORD your God, and you and your children begin wholeheartedly to obey all the commands I have given you today,
  2. then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes. He will have mercy on you and gather you back from all the nations where he has scattered you.
  3. Though you are at the ends of the earth, the LORD your God will go and find you and bring you back again.
  4. He will return you to the land that belonged to your ancestors, and you will possess that land again. He will make you even more prosperous and numerous than your ancestors!
  5. "The LORD your God will cleanse your heart and the hearts of all your descendants so that you will love him with all your heart and soul, and so you may live!

Isaiah 31:6

  1. Therefore, my people, though you are such wicked rebels, come and return to the LORD.

Jeremiah 12:15

  1. But afterward I will return and have compassion on all of them. I will bring them home to their own lands again, each nation to its own inheritance.

Jeremiah 4:1

  1. "O Israel, come back to me," says the LORD. "If you will throw away your detestable idols and go astray no more,

Jeremiah 3:22

  1. "My wayward children," says the LORD, "come back to me, and I will heal your wayward hearts.Yes, we will come," the people reply, "for you are the LORD our God.

Jeremiah 35:15

  1. I have sent you prophet after prophet to tell you to turn from your wicked ways and to stop worshiping other gods, so that you might live in peace here in the land I gave to you and your ancestors. But you would not listen to me or obey.

Hosea 14:4

  1. The LORD says, "Then I will heal you of your idolatry and faithlessness, and my love will know no bounds, for my anger will be gone forever!

Joel 2:12

  1. That is why the LORD says, "Turn to me now, while there is time! Give me your hearts. Come with fasting, weeping, and mourning.

Lamentations 3:39

  1. Then why should we, mere humans, complain when we are punished for our sins?
  2. Instead, let us test and examine our ways. Let us turn again in repentance to the LORD.
  3. Let us lift our hearts and hands to God in heaven and say,

Jeremiah 25:5

  1. Each time the message was this: `Turn from the evil road you are traveling and from the evil things you are doing. Only then will I let you live in this land that the LORD gave to you and your ancestors forever.

Ezekiel 33:11

  1. As surely as I live, says the Sovereign LORD, I take no pleasure in the death of wicked people. I only want them to turn from their wicked ways so they can live. Turn! Turn from your wickedness, O people of Israel! Why should you die?

Hosea 6:1

  1. "Come, let us return to the LORD! He has torn us in pieces; now he will heal us. He has injured us; now he will bandage our wounds.

James 4:8

  1. Draw close to God, and God will draw close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners; purify your hearts, you hypocrites.
  2. Let there be tears for the wrong things you have done. Let there be sorrow and deep grief. Let there be sadness instead of laughter, and gloom instead of joy.
  3. When you bow down before the Lord and admit your dependence on him, he will lift you up and give you honor.

Isaiah 55:6

  1. Seek the LORD while you can find him. Call on him now while he is near.
  2. Let the people turn from their wicked deeds. Let them banish from their minds the very thought of doing wrong! Let them turn to the LORD that he may have mercy on them. Yes, turn to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Jeremiah 29:12

  1. In those days when you pray, I will listen.
  2. If you look for me in earnest, you will find me when you seek me.
  3. I will be found by you," says the LORD. "I will end your captivity and restore your fortunes. I will gather you out of the nations where I sent you and bring you home again to your own land."

Deuteronomy 4:30

  1. "When those bitter days have come upon you far in the future, you will finally return to the LORD your God and listen to what he tells you.
  2. For the LORD your God is merciful--he will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the solemn covenant he made with your ancestors.

Jeremiah 3:12

  1. Therefore, go and say these words to Israel, `This is what the LORD says: O Israel, my faithless people, come home to me again, for I am merciful. I will not be angry with you forever.
  2. Only acknowledge your guilt. Admit that you rebelled against the LORD your God and committed adultery against him by worshiping idols under every green tree. Confess that you refused to follow me. I, the LORD, have spoken!'"
  3. "Return home, you wayward children," says the LORD, "for I am your husband. I will bring you again to the land of Israel--one from here and two from there, from wherever you are scattered.

Hosea 14:1

  1. Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for your sins have brought you down.

Nehemiah 9:28

  1. "But when all was going well, your people turned to sin again, and once more you let their enemies conquer them. Yet whenever your people cried to you again for help, you listened once more from heaven. In your wonderful mercy, you rescued them repeatedly!

Luke 15:18

  1. I will go home to my father and say, "Father, I have sinned against both heaven and you,
  2. and I am no longer worthy of being called your son. Please take me on as a hired man."'
  3. "So he returned home to his father. And while he was still a long distance away, his father saw him coming. Filled with love and compassion, he ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him.
  4. His son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against both heaven and you, and I am no longer worthy of being called your son. '
  5. "But his father said to the servants, 'Quick! Bring the finest robe in the house and put it on him. Get a ring for his finger, and sandals for his feet.

Micah 7:19

  1. Once again you will have compassion on us. You will trample our sins under your feet and throw them into the depths of the ocean!
  2. You will show us your faithfulness and unfailing love as you promised with an oath to our ancestors Abraham and Jacob long ago.

2 Chronicles 15:4

  1. But whenever you were in distress and turned to the LORD, the God of Israel, and sought him out, you found him.

1 Kings 8:47

  1. But in that land of exile, they may turn to you again in repentance and pray, `We have sinned, done evil, and acted wickedly.'
  2. Then if they turn to you with their whole heart and soul and pray toward the land you gave to their ancestors, toward this city you have chosen, and toward this Temple I have built to honor your name,

2 Chronicles 30:6

  1. At the king's command, messengers were sent throughout Israel and Judah. They carried letters which said: "O people of Israel, return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that he will return to the few of us who have survived the conquest of the Assyrian kings.
  2. Do not be like your ancestors and relatives who abandoned the LORD, the God of their ancestors, and became an object of derision, as you yourselves can see.
  3. Do not be stubborn, as they were, but submit yourselves to the LORD. Come to his Temple which he has set apart as holy forever. Worship the LORD your God so that his fierce anger will turn away from you.
  4. For if you return to the LORD, your relatives and your children will be treated mercifully by their captors, and they will be able to return to this land. For the LORD your God is gracious and merciful. If you return to him, he will not continue to turn his face from you."

Jeremiah 31:18

  1. I have heard Israel saying, `You disciplined me severely, but I deserved it. I was like a calf that needed to be trained for the yoke and plow. Turn me again to you and restore me, for you alone are the LORD my God.
  2. I turned away from God, but then I was sorry. I kicked myself for my stupidity! I was thoroughly ashamed of all I did in my younger days.'
  3. "Is not Israel still my son, my darling child?" asks the LORD. "I had to punish him, but I still love him. I long for him and surely will have mercy on him.
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