Bible Verses About Homecomings

And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.

And the Lord said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.

So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high.

But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you:

Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

And it came to pass, that, when Jesus was returned, the people gladly received him: for they were all waiting for him.

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the Lord our God.

And all the people departed every man to his house: and David returned to bless his house.

And when we were come to Jerusalem, the brethren received us gladly.

And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house.

That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.

And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.

But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.

For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.

Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,

Then the disciples went away again unto their own home.

Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.

Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.

And I will be found of you, saith the Lord: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the Lord; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.

Therefore thus saith the Lord, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.

And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?

Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.

Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father’s household, home unto thee.

Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

And when we had taken our leave one of another, we took ship; and they returned home again.

For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith the Lord.

For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:

He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

And there went a proclamation throughout the host about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his own country.

And there is hope in thine end, saith the Lord, that thy children shall come again to their own border.

Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for the Lord had made them to rejoice over their enemies.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return.

When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.

Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation: