Job 22:23
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents”
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“If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.”
King James Version · Public Domain“If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, If thou put away unrighteousness far from thy tents.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“If thou dost return unto the Mighty Thou art built up, Thou puttest iniquity far from thy tents.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 22:23 — 22 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Joshua 7:13Get up and consecrate the people, saying, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Among you, O Israel, there are things devoted to destruction. You cannot stand against your enemies until you remove them.
- 2 Chronicles 33:13And when he prayed to Him, the LORD received his plea and heard his petition; so He brought him back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD is God.
- Job 8:5But if you would earnestly seek God and ask the Almighty for mercy,
- Job 8:6if you are pure and upright, even now He will rouse Himself on your behalf and restore your righteous estate.
- Job 11:13As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him,
- Job 12:14What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.
- Job 18:15Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.
- Psalms 130:4But with You there is forgiveness, so that You may be feared.
- Isaiah 19:22And the LORD will strike Egypt with a plague; He will strike them but heal them. They will turn to the LORD, and He will hear their prayers and heal them.
- Isaiah 31:6Return to the One against whom you have so blatantly rebelled, O children of Israel.
- Isaiah 33:15He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against evil—
- Isaiah 55:6Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
- Isaiah 55:7Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.
- Jeremiah 31:4Again I will build you, and you will be rebuilt, O Virgin Israel. Again you will take up your tambourines and go out in joyful dancing.
- Hosea 6:1Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.
- Hosea 14:1Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.
- Zechariah 1:3So tell the people that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Return to Me, declares the LORD of Hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of Hosts.’
- Zechariah 5:3Then he told me, “This is the curse that is going out over the face of all the land, for according to one side of the scroll, every thief will be removed; and according to the other side, every perjurer will be removed.
- Acts 26:20First to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, then to everyone in the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I declared that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds worthy of their repentance.
- Colossians 2:7rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
- 2 Timothy 2:19Nevertheless, God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord must turn away from iniquity.”
- Jude 1:20But you, beloved, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,
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