2 Chronicles 6:38-39
38if they repent with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity to which they were carried captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name, 39then hear from heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their pleas, and maintain their cause and forgive your people who have sinned against you.Nehemiah 1:9
9 abut if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, bthough your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there I will gather them and bring them cto the place that I have chosen, to make my name dwell there.’Isaiah 55:6-7
6 d“Seek the Lord while he may be found;call upon him while he is near;
7let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Ezekiel 18:23
23 eHave I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, declares the Lord God, and not rather that he should turn from his way and live?Jonah 3:8-10
8but let man and fbeast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out mightily to God. gLet everyone turn from his evil way and from hthe violence that is in his hands. 9 iWho knows? God may turn and relent jand turn from his fierce anger, so that we may not perish.”10When God saw what they did, khow they turned from their evil way, lGod relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.
Acts 26:20
20but declared first mto those in Damascus, nthen in Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and also oto the Gentiles, that they should prepent and qturn to God, performing deeds rin keeping with their repentance.
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