Job 8:5-6, 34:31-32, Psa 139:23-24, Lam 3:40-42, 5:16-17, 1Cor 11:31-32 | ESV | STEP | If you will seek God and plead with the Almighty for mercy,

Job 8:5-6

5 If you will seek God
and ^aplead with the Almighty for mercy,
6 if you are pure and upright,
surely then he will ^brouse himself for you
and ^crestore your rightful habitation.

Job 34:31-32

31 “For has anyone said to God,
‘I have borne punishment; I will not offend any more;
32 ^dteach me what I do not see;
if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?

Psalms 139:23-24

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart!
^eTry me and know my thoughts! ^{▼▼Or cares}
24 And see if there be any grievous way in me,
and ^glead me in ^hthe way everlasting! ^{▼▼Or in the ancient way (compare Jeremiah 6:16)}

Lamentations 3:40-42

40 Let us test and examine our ways,
^jand return to the Lord!
41 ^kLet us lift up our hearts and hands
to God in heaven:
42 ^l“We have transgressed and ^mrebelled,
and you have not forgiven.

Lamentations 5:16-17

16 ⁿThe crown has fallen from our head;
woe to us, for we have sinned!
17 For this ^oour heart has become sick,
for these things ^pour eyes have grown dim,

1 Corinthians 11:31-32

31 ^qBut if we judged ^{▼▼Or discerned} ourselves truly, we would not be judged. 32 But when we are judged by the Lord, ^swe are disciplined ^{▼▼Or when we are judged we are being disciplined by the Lord} so that we may not be ^ucondemned along with the world.