when you obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, when you turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the Lord! Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:
But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
For neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but keeping the commandments of God.
Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food. Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David.
but if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there I will gather them and bring them to the place that I have chosen, to make my name dwell there.’
And you shall again obey the voice of the Lord and keep all his commandments that I command you today.
and return to the Lord your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your soul,
but declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds in keeping with their repentance.
Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out,
And when the wicked turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he shall live by this.
Again, though I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ yet if he turns from his sin and does what is just and right,
Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?
“But if a wicked person turns away from all his sins that he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does what is just and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
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