1 Kings 8:48

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

You shall walk after Yahweh your God, fear him, keep his commandments, and obey his voice. You shall serve him, and cling to him.

Jesus answered him, “Get behind me Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”

But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—

You shall seek me, and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.

You shall fear Yahweh your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

“Should you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.

Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”

You shall fear Yahweh your God. You shall serve him. You shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

“Now therefore put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel.”

Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” The people didn’t say a word.

I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;

Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.

“Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve Yahweh.

The children of Israel again did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and served the Baals, the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines. They abandoned Yahweh, and didn’t serve him.

Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”

They put his armor in the house of the Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan.

Now set your heart and your soul to follow Yahweh your God. Arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, to bring the ark of Yahweh’s covenant and the holy vessels of God into the house that is to be built for Yahweh’s name.”

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

All Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found by them. Then Yahweh gave them rest all around.

who sets his heart to seek God, Yahweh, the God of his fathers, even if they aren’t clean according to the purification of the sanctuary.”

From the end of the earth, I will call to you when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?

and return to Yahweh your God and obey his voice according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul,

If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there Yahweh your God will gather you, and from there he will bring you back.

if you will obey Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

They abandoned Yahweh, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.

He trusted in Yahweh, the God of Israel; so that after him was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among them that were before him.

Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.”

“If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.

As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.

Oh come, let’s worship and bow down. Let’s kneel before Yahweh, our Maker,

You reject all those who stray from your statutes, for their deceit is in vain.

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.

Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought Yahweh of Armies.

The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

“I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

“You shall be my people, and I will be your God.

When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.

Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, turning aside, that they should not obey your voice. “Therefore the curse and the oath written in the law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us; for we have sinned against him.

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

“Can anyone forbid these people from being baptized with water? They have received the Holy Spirit just like us.”

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.

But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and you shall come there.

Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, all the people, and the king, that they should be Yahweh’s people.

He built altars in Yahweh’s house, of which Yahweh said, “My name shall be in Jerusalem forever.”

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.

Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.

Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.

Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.

Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief. Don’t let the your eyes rest.

Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

I will establish my covenant with you. Then you will know that I am Yahweh;

I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

but if you return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.’

I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’

There was no king like him before him, who turned to Yahweh with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; and there was none like him who arose after him.

For now I have chosen and made this house holy, that my name may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart will be there perpetually.

They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;

He set the engraved image of the idol, which he had made, in God’s house, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.

Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

I have called with my whole heart. Answer me, Yahweh! I will keep your statutes.

My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense,” says Yahweh.

I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh. They will be my people, and I will be their God; for they will return to me with their whole heart.

As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we have not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities and have discernment in your truth.

As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?”

For with the heart, one believes resulting in righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made resulting in salvation.