If from thence thou shalt seke the Lorde thy God, thou shalt finde hym, if thou seke hym with all thy heart, and with all thy soule.
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TSK · 1 Samuel 7:3
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Thou shalt feare the Lord thy God, and hym only shalt thou serue, to hym shalt thou cleaue, and sweare by his name.
And come agayne vnto the Lorde thy God, and hearken vnto his voyce in all these thynges that I commaunde thee this day, thou, and thy children, with all thine heart, and all thy soule:
Then put away sayde he the strauge goddes whiche are among you, & bowe your heartes vnto the Lorde God of Israel.
They forsoke the Lorde, and serued Baal and Astharoth.
And they put away the straunge gods from them, & serued the Lord: And his soule had pitie on the miserie of Israel.
And so turne agayne vnto thee with all their heart and all their soule in the lande of their enemies which led them away captiue, and pray vnto thee, toward the way of their land which thou gauest vnto their fathers, and toward the citie which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I haue built for thy name:
Moreouer, the aulter that was at Bethel, the high places made by Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat which made Israel sinne, both the aulter and also the high places he brake downe, and burnt the high places, and stampt it to powder, and burnt the idol groue.
And thou Solomon my sonne, knowe thou the God of thy father, and serue him with a pure heart and with a wyllyng minde: For the Lord searcheth al heartes, and vnderstandeth all the immaginations of thoughtes: And if thou seeke him, he wyll be founde of thee: but if thou forsake him, he wyll cast thee of for euer.
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for the people had not yet prepared their heartes vnto the God of their fathers.
If thou preparedst thyne heart, and liftedst vp thyne handes towarde hym:
A man may wel purpose a thyng in his heart: but the aunswere of the tongue commeth of the Lorde.
O Israel, yf thou wylt turne thee, then turne vnto me, saith ye Lord: and yf thou wylt put away thine abhominations out of my sight, thou shalt not be moued.
Cast away from you all your transgressions wherby ye haue transgressed, and make you a newe heart and a newe spirite: for why wyll ye dye O ye house of Israel?
O Israel, returne vnto the Lorde thy God, for thou hast fallen through thine owne wickednesse.
The sayth Iesus vnto hym: Auoyde Sathan. For it is written: Thou shalt worshyp the Lorde thy God, and hym only shalt thou serue.
This people draweth nye vnto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lippes: howbeit, their hearts are farre from me.
God is a spirite, and they that worshippe hym, must worshippe hym in spirite, and in the trueth.