G-d loves us and he will take us back if we return to him - Key Passages
I hope these passages will encourage you to come to your G-d & Father with confidence that he will always forgive all the mistakes you committed and take you back.
Deuteronomy 4:29 And from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him, if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. 30 When you are distressed, and all these things happen upon you in the end of days, then you will return to the Lord your God and obey Him. 31 For the Lord your God is a merciful God; He will not let you loose or destroy you; neither will He forget the covenant of your fathers, which He swore to them.
Deuteronomy 30:1 And it will be, when all these things come upon you the blessing and the curse which I have set before you that you will consider in your heart, among all the nations where the Lord your God has banished you, 2 and you will return to the Lord, your God, with all your heart and with all your soul, and you will listen to His voice according to all that I am commanding you this day you and your children, 3 then, the Lord, your God, will bring back your exiles, and He will have mercy upon you. He will once again gather you from all the nations, where the Lord, your God, had dispersed you.
1 Kings 8:33 When Your people Israel are struck down before the enemy, because they sin against You, and shall turn again to You, and praise Your name, and pray and make supplication to You in this house. 34 And You shall hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of Your people Israel, and bring them back to the land which You gave to their fathers.
1 Kings 8:35 When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against You; and they shall pray toward this place and praise Your name, and repent of their sin, so that You may answer them. 36 And You shall hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of Your servants, and of Your people Israel, when You teach them the good way wherein they should walk; and give rain upon Your land, which You have given to Your people for an inheritance.
1 Kings 8:37 If there be famine in the land, if there be pestilence, blasting, yellowing, locust, (or) if there be destroying locusts; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities, whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness (there be). 38 Any prayer, any supplication, which will be (made) by any man, (or) by all Your people Israel, who shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house. 39 And You shall hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart You know, for You, alone, know the hearts of all the children of men.
I Kings 8:41 And also to the stranger, who (is) not of Your people Israel, but will come from a far country for the sake of Your Name. 42 For they shall hear of Your great Name, and of Your mighty hand, and of Your outstretched arm, and he will come and pray toward this house. 43 You shall hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calls You for, that all peoples of the earth may know Your Name, to fear You, as (do) Your people Israel, and that they may know that Your Name is called upon this house that I have built.
1 Kings 8:44 If Your people go out to battle against their enemy, by what way You send them, and pray to the Lord toward the city that You have chosen, and (toward) the house that I have built for Your name. 45 And you shall hear in heaven their prayer and supplication, and maintain their cause.
1 Kings 8:47 And they shall bethink themselves in the land where they were carried captive, and repent, and make supplication to You in the land of their captors, saying, 'We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness.' 48 And they shall return to You with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, who led them away captive, and pray to You toward their land, which You gave to their fathers, the city that You have chosen, and the house which I have built for Your Name. 49 And you shall hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven, Your dwelling place, and maintain their cause. 50 And forgive Your people what they have sinned against You, and all their transgressions that they have transgressed against You, and give mercy before their captors, that they may have mercy on them.
Isaiah 9:12 And the people has not returned to the One Who smites it, and the Lord of Hosts they have not sought.
Isaiah 27:9 Therefore, with this shall Jacob's iniquity be atoned for, and this is all the fruit of removing his sin; by making all the altar stones like crushed chalkstones; asherim and sun-images shall not rise.
Isaiah 31:6 Return to Him, against Whom you have thought deeply to turn away, O children of Israel.
Isaiah 44:21 Remember these, O Jacob; and Israel, for you are My servant; I formed you that you be a servant to Me, Israel, do not forget Me. 22 I erased your transgressions like a thick cloud, and like a cloud have I erased your sins; return to Me for I have redeemed you.
Jeremiah 3:12 Go and proclaim these words to the north, and say; Return, O backsliding Israel, says the Lord. I will not let My anger rest upon you, for I am pious, says the Lord; I will not bear a grudge forever.
Jeremiah 3:14 Return, backsliding children, says the Lord, for I possessed you, and I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.
Jeremiah 3:22 Return, backsliding children, I will cure your backslidings. "Here we are; we have come to You, for You are the Lord our God.
Jeremiah 4:1 If you return, O Israel, says the Lord, to Me, you shall return, and if you remove your detestable things from My Presence, you shall not wander.
Jeremiah 15:19 Therefore, so said the Lord: If you return, I will return you, you will stand before Me, and if you take the precious out of the vile, you shall be as My mouth. Let them return to you, but you shall not return to them.
Jeremiah 18:8 And when that nation repents of its evil for which I spoke concerning it, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to it.
Jeremiah 24:7 And I will give them a heart to know Me, for I am the Lord, and they shall be to Me for a people, and I will be to them for a God, for they shall return to Me with all their heart.
Jeremiah 31:17 I have indeed heard Ephraim complaining, [saying,] "You have chastised me, and I was chastised as an ungoaded calf, O lead me back, and I will return, for You are the Lord, my God.
Ezekiel 14:6 Therefore, say to the house of Israel, So said the Lord God: Repent and move away from your idols, and from all your abominations remove your faces.
Ezekiel 18:31 Cast away from yourselves all your transgressions whereby you have transgressed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit, and why should you die, O house of Israel! 32 For I do not desire the death of him who dies, says the Lord God: so turn away and live!"
Hosea 6:1 Come and let us return to the Lord, for He has torn and He shall heal us; He smites, and He will bind us up. 2 He will revive us from the two days, on the third day He will set us up, and we will live before Him.
Hosea 12:6 And the Lord is the God of the hosts; the Lord is His Name. 7 And you shall return by your God: keep loving-kindness and justice, and hope to your God always.
Hosea 14:2 Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled in your iniquity. 3 Take words with yourselves and return to the Lord. Say, "You shall forgive all iniquity and teach us [the] good [way], and let us render [for] bulls [the offering of] our lips.
Joel 2:12 And even now, says the Lord, return to Me with all your heart, and with fasting and with weeping and with lamentation. 13 And rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the Lord your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and He repents of the evil. 14 Whoever knows shall repent and regret, and it shall leave after it a blessing, a meal offering and a libation to the Lord your God.
Amos 4:6 And also I have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places, but you have not returned to Me, says the Lord.
Amos 4:7 And I also withheld the rain from you when there were yet three months before the harvest, and I will cause to rain on one city, and on one city I will not cause to rain; one field shall receive rain, and the field upon which no rain shall fall, shall wither. 8 And two or three cities wandered into one city to drink water, but they shall not be sated, but you have not returned to Me, says the Lord.
Amos 4:9 I smote you with blast and with yellowing; the increase of your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees the shearing locust has devoured, but you have not returned to Me, says the Lord.
Amos 4:10 I sent a pestilence upon you after the manner of Egypt; I slew your young men with the sword, with the captivity of your horses, and I caused the stench of your camps to rise, and in your nostrils, but you have not returned to Me, says the Lord.
Amos 4:11 I have overthrown some of you like God's overthrow of Sodom and Gemorrah, and you were like a brand plucked from burning, but you have not returned to Me, says the Lord.
Haggai 2:17 I smote you with blast and with yellowing and with hail in all the work of your hands, and you are not [returning] to Me, says the Lord. [G-d is saying there that he struck calamity on Israel so they come back to G-d. G-d seeks his people]
Zechariah 1:3 And you shall say to them: So said the Lord of Hosts, Return to Me, said the Lord of Hosts, and I will return to you, said the Lord of Hosts.
Malachi 3:7 From the days of your fathers you have departed from My laws and have not kept [them]. "Return to Me, and I will return to you," said the Lord of Hosts, but you said, "With what have we to return?"
Malachi 3:10 Bring the whole of the tithes into the treasury so that there may be nourishment in My House, and test Me now therewith, says the Lord of Hosts, [to see] if I will not open for you the sluices of heaven and pour down for you blessing until there be no room to suffice for it. 11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sake, and he will not destroy the fruits of your land; neither shall your vine cast its fruit before its time in the field, says the Lord of Hosts.
Psalm 80:15 O God of Hosts, return now; look from heaven and see, and be mindful of this vine,
Job 22:23 If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up; you shall distance injustice from your tents.
Lamentations 3:40 Let us search and examine our ways, and let us return to the Lord.
Lamentations 5:21 Restore us to You, O Lord, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old.
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