Bible Verses About Returning to Roots

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

And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.

And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:

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?

They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.

Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

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.

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

Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?

But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?

And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the Lord which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:

To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,

If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.

For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:

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

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

O Lord, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.

And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again.

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.

For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.

Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins.

He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again through the people from Beer–sheba to mount Ephraim, and brought them back unto the Lord God of their fathers.

Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;

Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.

Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.

And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.

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

The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.

Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.

And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.

They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.

For if ye turn again unto the Lord, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the Lord your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.

Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.