Here are 31 Bible verses about returning to God from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible (King James Version), sorted from most to least relevant.
2 Chronicles 15:4 KJV
But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.
Isaiah 55:7 KJV
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Jeremiah 3:12 KJV
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Isaiah 19:22 KJV
Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever.
Zechariah 1:3 KJV
And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.
Isaiah 31:6 KJV
Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.
Isaiah 59:20 KJV
Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.
Jeremiah 24:7 KJV
And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
Joel 2:13 KJV
And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.
Hosea 12:6 KJV
And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
James 4:8 KJV
Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.
Job 22:23 KJV
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
Jeremiah 3:14 KJV
If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
Hosea 14:2 KJV
Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
Psalms 51:13 KJV
Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.
Jeremiah 3:22 KJV
Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.
Hosea 6:1 KJV
Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
Deuteronomy 30:2 KJV
Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
Malachi 3:7 KJV
And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;
Matthew 27:3-4 KJV
Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?
Jeremiah 4:1 KJV
Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
Jeremiah 15:19 KJV
If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.
Deuteronomy 4:30 KJV
Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.
Nehemiah 1:9 KJV
When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;
Hosea 14:1 KJV
But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there.
Acts 16:31 KJV
O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
Lamentations 3:40 KJV
And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
1 Samuel 7:3 KJV
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
1 Samuel 15:24-25 KJV
And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
Isaiah 10:21 KJV
And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and thy words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice. Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD.
Joshua 7:20 KJV
The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.
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