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Luke 4:8
And Jesus answered him,“ It is written: Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.”
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Deuteronomy 13:4
You must follow the LORD your God and fear him. You must keep his commands and listen to him; you must worship him and remain faithful to him.
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Matthew 4:10
Then Jesus told him,“ Go away, Satan! For it is written: Worship the Lord your God, and serve only him.”
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Deuteronomy 6:13
Fear the LORD your God, worship him, and take your oaths in his name.
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Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked one abandon his way and the sinful one his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, so he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will freely forgive.
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Joshua 24:14
“ Therefore, fear the LORD and worship him in sincerity and truth. Get rid of the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and worship the LORD.
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Joshua 24:23
“ Then get rid of the foreign gods that are among you and turn your hearts to the LORD, the God of Israel.”
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1 Kings 8 48
and when they return to you with all their heart and all their soul in the land of their enemies who took them captive, and when they pray to you in the direction of their land that you gave their ancestors, the city you have chosen, and the temple I have built for your name,
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Joel 2:12-13
Even now— this is the LORD’s declaration— turn to me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.Tear your hearts, not just your clothes, and return to the LORD your God. For he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in faithful love, and he relents from sending disaster.
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Hosea 6:1-2
Come, let’s return to the LORD. For he has torn us, and he will heal us; he has wounded us, and he will bind up our wounds.He will revive us after two days, and on the third day he will raise us up so we can live in his presence.
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Deuteronomy 10:20
You are to fear the LORD your God and worship him. Remain faithful to him and take oaths in his name.
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John 4:24
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in Spirit and in truth.”
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Deuteronomy 30:2-10
and you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey him with all your heart and all your soul by doing everything I am commanding you today,then he will restore your fortunes, have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the peoples where the LORD your God has scattered you.Even if your exiles are at the farthest horizon, he will gather you and bring you back from there.The LORD your God will bring you into the land your ancestors possessed, and you will take possession of it. He will cause you to prosper and multiply you more than he did your ancestors.The LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love him with all your heart and all your soul so that you will live.The LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you.Then you will again obey him and follow all his commands I am commanding you today.The LORD your God will make you prosper abundantly in all the work of your hands, your offspring, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land. Indeed, the LORD will again delight in your prosperity, as he delighted in that of your ancestors,when you obey the LORD your God by keeping his commands and statutes that are written in this book of the law and return to him with all your heart and all your soul.
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Judges 10:6
Then the Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. They worshiped the Baals and the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites and the Philistines. They abandoned the LORD and did not worship him.
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1 Chronicles 28 9
“ As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intention of every thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you abandon him, he will reject you forever.
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1 Chronicles 22 19
Now determine in your mind and heart to seek the LORD your God. Get started building the LORD God’s sanctuary so that you may bring the ark of the LORD’s covenant and the holy articles of God to the temple that is to be built for the name of the LORD.”
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Genesis 35:2
So Jacob said to his family and all who were with him,“ Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your clothes.
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Matthew 15:8
This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
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Ezekiel 18:31
Throw off all the transgressions you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, house of Israel?
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Jeremiah 4:3-4
For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: Break up the unplowed ground; do not sow among the thorns.Circumcise yourselves to the LORD; remove the foreskin of your hearts, men of Judah and residents of Jerusalem. Otherwise, my wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it because of your evil deeds.
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Matthew 6:24
“ No one can serve two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
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Judges 2:13
for they abandoned him and worshiped Baal and the Ashtoreths.
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2 Chronicles 30 19
whoever sets his whole heart on seeking God, the LORD, the God of his ancestors, even though not according to the purification rules of the sanctuary.”
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2 Chronicles 19 3
However, some good is found in you, for you have eradicated the Asherah poles from the land and have determined in your heart to seek God.”
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Job 11:13-14
As for you, if you redirect your heart and spread out your hands to him in prayer—if there is iniquity in your hand, remove it, and don’t allow injustice to dwell in your tents—
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Proverbs 16:1
The reflections of the heart belong to mankind, but the answer of the tongue is from the LORD.
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Judges 10:16
So they got rid of the foreign gods among them and worshiped the LORD, and he became weary of Israel’s misery.
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Hosea 14:1
Israel, return to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled in your iniquity.
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1 Samuel 31 10
Then they put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and hung his body on the wall of Beth-shan.