Jeremiah 29:13

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Jeremiah 29:11–15 · Berean Standard Bible

11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.

12 Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

13 You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.

14 I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore you from captivity and gather you from all the nations and places to which I have banished you, declares the LORD. I will restore you to the place from which I sent you into exile.”

15 Because you may say, “The LORD has raised up for us prophets in Babylon,”

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Leviticus 26:40

But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—

Leviticus 26:41

and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled and they will make amends for their iniquity,

Leviticus 26:42

then I will remember My covenant with Jacob and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.

Leviticus 26:43

For the land will be abandoned by them, and it will enjoy its Sabbaths by lying desolate without them. And they will pay the penalty for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes.

Leviticus 26:44

Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or despise them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.

Leviticus 26:45

But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their fathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the LORD.”

Deuteronomy 4:29

But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Deuteronomy 4:30

When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the LORD your God and listen to His voice.

Deuteronomy 4:31

For the LORD your God is a merciful God; He will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers, which He swore to them by oath.

Deuteronomy 30:1

“When all these things come upon you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God has banished you,

Deuteronomy 30:2

and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything I am giving you today,

Deuteronomy 30:3

then He will restore you from captivity and have compassion on you and gather you from all the nations to which the LORD your God has scattered you.

Deuteronomy 30:4

Even if you have been banished to the farthest horizon, He will gather you and return you from there.

Deuteronomy 30:5

And the LORD your God will bring you into the land your fathers possessed, and you will take possession of it. He will cause you to prosper and multiply more than your fathers.

Deuteronomy 30:6

The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.

Deuteronomy 30:7

Then the LORD your God will put all these curses upon your enemies who hate you and persecute you.

Deuteronomy 30:8

And you will again obey the voice of the LORD and follow all His commandments I am giving you today.

Deuteronomy 30:9

So the LORD your God will make you abound in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land. Indeed, the LORD will again delight in your goodness, as He delighted in that of your fathers,

Deuteronomy 30:10

if you obey the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn to Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Deuteronomy 30:11

For this commandment I give you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach.

Deuteronomy 30:12

It is not in heaven, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will ascend into heaven to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’

Deuteronomy 30:13

And it is not beyond the sea, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will cross the sea to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’

Deuteronomy 30:14

But the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may obey it.

Deuteronomy 30:15

See, I have set before you today life and goodness, as well as death and disaster.

Deuteronomy 30:16

For I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land that you are entering to possess.

Deuteronomy 30:17

But if your heart turns away and you do not listen, but are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them,

Deuteronomy 30:18

I declare to you today that you will surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.

Deuteronomy 30:19

I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live,

Deuteronomy 30:20

and that you may love the LORD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

1 Kings 8:47

and when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong; we have acted wickedly,’

1 Kings 8:48

and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and when they pray to You in the direction of the land that You gave to their fathers, the city You have chosen, and the house I have built for Your Name,

1 Kings 8:49

then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, their prayer and petition, and may You uphold their cause.

1 Kings 8:50

May You forgive Your people who have sinned against You and all the transgressions they have committed against You, and may You grant them compassion in the eyes of their captors to show them mercy.

2 Chronicles 6:37

and when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong; we have acted wickedly,’

2 Chronicles 6:38

and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and when they pray in the direction of the land that You gave to their fathers, the city You have chosen, and the house I have built for Your Name,

2 Chronicles 6:39

then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, their prayer and petition, and may You uphold their cause. May You forgive Your people who sinned against You.

Psalms 91:15

When he calls out to Me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him.

Isaiah 55:6

Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.

Isaiah 55:7

Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.

Hosea 5:15

Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”

Hosea 6:1

Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.

Hosea 6:2

After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence.

Hosea 6:3

So let us know— let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.

Amos 5:4

For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!

Amos 5:5

Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.

Amos 5:6

Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.

Zephaniah 2:1

Gather yourselves, gather together, O shameful nation,

Zephaniah 2:2

before the decree takes effect and the day passes like chaff, before the burning anger of the LORD comes upon you, before the Day of the LORD’s anger comes upon you.

Zephaniah 2:3

Seek the LORD, all you humble of the earth who carry out His justice. Seek righteousness; seek humility. Perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the LORD’s anger.

Luke 11:9

So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.

Luke 11:10

For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.

Jeremiah 3:10

Yet in spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 24:7

I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD. They will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with all their heart.

1 Kings 2:4

and so that the LORD may fulfill His promise to me: ‘If your descendants take heed to walk faithfully before Me with all their heart and soul, you will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.’

2 Kings 23:3

So the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments, decrees, and statutes with all his heart and all his soul, and to carry out the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people entered into the covenant.

2 Chronicles 22:9

Then Jehu looked for Ahaziah, and Jehu’s soldiers captured him while he was hiding in Samaria. So Ahaziah was brought to Jehu and put to death. They buried him, for they said, “He is the grandson of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart.” So no one was left from the house of Ahaziah with the strength to rule the kingdom.

2 Chronicles 31:21

He was diligent in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law and the commandments, in order to seek his God. And so he prospered.

Psalms 119:2

Blessed are those who keep His testimonies and seek Him with all their heart.

Psalms 119:10

With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.

Psalms 119:58

I have sought Your face with all my heart; be gracious to me according to Your promise.

Psalms 119:69

Though the arrogant have smeared me with lies, I keep Your precepts with all my heart.

Psalms 119:145

I call with all my heart; answer me, O LORD! I will obey Your statutes.

Joel 2:12

“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”