Bible Cross References
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Deuteronomy 4:29
There you will look for the LORD your God, and if you search for him with all your heart, you will find him.
Deuteronomy 4:30
When you are in trouble and all those things happen to you, then you will finally turn to the LORD and obey him.
1 Samuel 7:3
Samuel said to the people of Israel, "If you are going to turn to the LORD with all your hearts, you must get rid of all the foreign gods and the images of the goddess Astarte. Dedicate yourselves completely to the LORD and worship only him, and he will rescue you from the power of the Philistines."
1 Kings 8:47-49
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listen to your people's prayers. If there in that land they repent and pray to you, confessing how sinful and wicked they have been, hear their prayers, O LORD.
48
If in that land they truly and sincerely repent and pray to you as they face toward this land which you gave to our ancestors, this city which you have chosen, and this Temple which I have built for you,
49
then listen to their prayers. In your home in heaven hear them and be merciful to them.
2 Chronicles 6:38
If in that land they truly and sincerely repent and pray to you as they face toward this land which you gave to our ancestors, this city which you have chosen, and this Temple which I have built for you,
2 Chronicles 6:39
then listen to their prayers. In your home in heaven hear them and be merciful to them and forgive all the sins of your people.
2 Chronicles 7:13
Whenever I hold back the rain or send locusts to eat up the crops or send an epidemic on my people,
2 Chronicles 7:14
if they pray to me and repent and turn away from the evil they have been doing, then I will hear them in heaven, forgive their sins, and make their land prosperous again.
Isaiah 55:6
Turn to the LORD and pray to him, now that he is near.
Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked leave their way of life and change their way of thinking. Let them turn to the LORD, our God; he is merciful and quick to forgive.
Jeremiah 4:1
The LORD says, "People of Israel, if you want to turn, then turn back to me. If you are faithful to me and remove the idols I hate,
Jeremiah 29:12
Then you will call to me. You will come and pray to me, and I will answer you.
Jeremiah 29:13
You will seek me, and you will find me because you will seek me with all your heart.
Lamentations 3:40
Let us examine our ways and turn back to the LORD.
Lamentations 3:41
Let us open our hearts to God in heaven and pray,
Hosea 6:1
The people say, "Let's return to the LORD! He has hurt us, but he will be sure to heal us; he has wounded us, but he will bandage our wounds, won't he?
Hosea 12:6
So now, descendants of Jacob, trust in your God and return to him. Be loyal and just, and wait patiently for your God to act.
Hosea 14:1
Return to the LORD your God, people of Israel. Your sin has made you stumble and fall.
Zechariah 1:3
but now I say to you, 'Return to me, and I will return to you.
Zechariah 1:4
Do not be like your ancestors. Long ago the prophets gave them my message, telling them not to live evil, sinful lives any longer. But they would not listen to me or obey me.
Acts 26:20
First in Damascus and in Jerusalem and then in the whole country of Israel and among the Gentiles, I preached that they must repent of their sins and turn to God and do the things that would show they had repented.
with fasting
Judges 20:26
Then all the people of Israel went up to Bethel and mourned. They sat there in the LORD's presence and did not eat until evening. They offered fellowship sacrifices and burned some sacrifices whole---all in the presence of the LORD.
1 Samuel 7:6
So they all gathered at Mizpah. They drew some water and poured it out as an offering to the LORD and fasted that whole day. They said, "We have sinned against the LORD." (It was at Mizpah where Samuel settled disputes among the Israelites.)
2 Chronicles 20:3
Jehoshaphat was frightened and prayed to the LORD for guidance. Then he gave orders for a fast to be observed throughout the country.
2 Chronicles 20:4
From every city of Judah people hurried to Jerusalem to ask the LORD for guidance,
Nehemiah 9:1
On the twenty-fourth day of the same month the people of Israel gathered to fast in order to show sorrow for their sins. They had already separated themselves from all foreigners. They wore sackcloth and put dust on their heads as signs of grief. Then they stood and began to confess the sins that they and their ancestors had committed.
Nehemiah 9:2
(SEE 9:1)
Isaiah 22:12
The Sovereign LORD Almighty was calling you then to weep and mourn, to shave your heads and wear sackcloth.
Jonah 3:5-8
5
The people of Nineveh believed God's message. So they decided that everyone should fast, and all the people, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth to show that they had repented.
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When the king of Nineveh heard about it, he got up from his throne, took off his robe, put on sackcloth, and sat down in ashes.
7
He sent out a proclamation to the people of Nineveh: "This is an order from the king and his officials: No one is to eat anything; all persons, cattle, and sheep are forbidden to eat or drink.
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All persons and animals must wear sackcloth. Everyone must pray earnestly to God and must give up their wicked behavior and their evil actions.
Zechariah 7:3
and to ask the priests and the prophets this question: "Should we continue to mourn because of the destruction of the Temple, by fasting in the fifth month as we have done for so many years now?"
Zechariah 7:5
He said, "Tell the people of the land and the priests that when they fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months during these seventy years, it was not in honor of me.
Zechariah 12:10-14
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"I will fill the descendants of David and the other people of Jerusalem with the spirit of mercy and the spirit of prayer. They will look at the one whom they stabbed to death, and they will mourn for him like those who mourn for an only child. They will mourn bitterly, like those who have lost their first-born son.
11
At that time the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning for Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.
12
Each family in the land will mourn by itself: the family descended from David, the family descended from Nathan, the family descended from Levi, the family descended from Shimei, and all the other families. Each family will mourn by itself, and the men of each family will mourn separately from the women.
13
(SEE 12:12)
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(SEE 12:12)
James 4:8
Come near to God, and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners! Purify your hearts, you hypocrites!
James 4:9
Be sorrowful, cry, and weep; change your laughter into crying, your joy into gloom!