1 Samuel 7:3

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Samuel told them, ‘If you  are returning to the Lord   with all your heart,  get rid of the foreign gods  and the Ashtoreths that are among you, set your hearts on the Lord, and worship only him.  Then he will rescue you from the Philistines.’

Cross References

Luke 4:8

And Jesus answered him,  ‘It is written: Worship the Lord your God, and serve   him only.’

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.

Matthew 4:10

Then Jesus told him, ‘Go away,   Satan! For it is written: Worship the Lord your God, and serve only him.’   ,

Deuteronomy 6:13

Fear the Lord your God, worship him, and take your oaths in his name.

Isaiah 55:7

Let the wicked one abandon his way and the sinful one his thoughts; let him return to the  Lord, so that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will freely forgive.

Joshua 24:14

‘Therefore, fear the Lord and worship him in sincerity and truth.  Get rid of the gods your ancestors worshipped  beyond the River Euphrates and in Egypt, and worship the Lord.

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.’

John 4:24

God is spirit,   and those who worship him must worship in Spirit and in truth.’

Deuteronomy 10:20

You are to fear the Lord your God and worship him. Remain faithful  to him and take oaths in his name.

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 which you have chosen, and the temple I have built for your name,

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.

Matthew 15:8

This people   honours me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

Judges 10:6

Then the Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.  They worshipped 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.

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.’

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.

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?

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 for ever.

Proverbs 16:1

The reflections of the heart belong to mankind, but the answer of the tongue is from the  Lord.

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.’

Judges 10:16

So they got rid of the foreign gods  among them and worshipped the Lord,  and he became weary  of Israel’s misery.

Hosea 14:1

Israel, return to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled in your iniquity.

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.’

Judges 2:13

for they abandoned him and worshipped Baal and the Ashtoreths.

1 Samuel 31:10

Then they put his armour in the temple of the Ashtoreths  and hung his body  on the wall of Beth-shan.

Joshua 13:31

But half of Gilead, and Og’s royal cities in Bashan #– #Ashtaroth and Edrei #– #are for the descendants of Machir son of Manasseh (that is, half the descendants of Machir by their clans).

1 Kings 11:33

For they have abandoned me; they have bowed down to Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, to Chemosh, the god of Moab, and to Milcom, the god of the Ammonites.  They have not walked in my ways to do what is right in my sight and to carry out my statutes and my judgements as his father David did.

Jeremiah 24:7

I will give them a heart to know me,  that I am the Lord. They will be my people, and I will be their God because they will return to me with all their heart.

Jeremiah 36:3

Perhaps when the house of Judah hears about all the disaster I am planning to bring on them, each one of them will turn from his evil way. Then I will forgive their iniquity  and their sin.’

Ezekiel 14:6

‘Therefore, say to the house of Israel, “This is what the Lord God says: Repent and turn away  from your idols; turn your faces away from all your detestable things.

Deuteronomy 4:29

But from there, you will search for the Lord your God, and you will find him when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul.

Judges 2:11

The Israelites did what was evil in the Lord’s sight.  They worshipped the Baals

2 Kings 17:39

but fear the Lord your God, and he will rescue you from all your enemies.’

2 Kings 23:15

He even tore down the altar at Bethel  and the high place  that had been made by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin. He burned the high place, crushed it to dust, and burned the Asherah.

2 Chronicles 20:33

However, the high places were not taken away;  the people had not yet set their hearts on the God of their ancestors.

Jeremiah 4:1

If you return,  Israel – this is the  Lord’s declaration – you will return to me, if you remove your abhorrent idols from my presence and do not waver,