100 Bible Verses About Restoration
Bible verses about Restoration
Delve into the heart of God's restorative power through these carefully selected scriptures. Understanding restoration is paramount to grasping the full scope of God's love and grace. It's not merely about returning to a former state, but about being made whole, renewed, and even elevated beyond what was lost. These verses illuminate the promise of redemption, offering comfort and hope knowing that God is actively working to mend brokenness, heal wounds, and restore relationships. Embrace the transformative truth that through faith, nothing is ever truly lost, and that God's ultimate desire is to restore us to our intended purpose and glory.
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Isaiah 60:17 (KJV)
For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness.
Restore, Renew, Rebuild: Bible Verses of Hope
Then the priest shall command that they wash the thing wherein the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days more:
Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I will no more do thee harm, because my soul was precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.
And he fell upon his brother Benjamin’s neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.
Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.
Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set forward the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brethren the Levites.
Then the priest shall look: and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be darkish white; it is a freckled spot that groweth in the skin; he is clean.
And Aaron lifted up his hand toward the people, and blessed them, and came down from offering of the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and peace offerings.
One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the Lord:
And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold, he is to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all other: thus she was reproved.
After him repaired Benjamin and Hashub over against their house. After him repaired Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son of Ananiah by his house.
And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.
For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the Lord came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.
The Lord openeth the eyes of the blind: the Lord raiseth them that are bowed down: the Lord loveth the righteous:
But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
The children of Jaalah, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,
And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?
When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.
He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.
Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.
He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.
And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the Lord thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the Lord hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the Lord doth drive them out from before thee.
In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.
Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.
And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again.
These are the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity, of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and came again to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one unto his city;
And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the Lord for his sin which he hath done: and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him.
A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the Lord will hasten it in his time.
And these were they which went up also from Tel–melah, Tel–haresha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not shew their father’s house, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel.
Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.
And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the Lord had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.
This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get that which pertaineth to his cleansing.
Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward.
The Lord is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.
Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob’s; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us.
A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.
Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
And the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded, and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.
And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.
And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.
And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
Of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;
Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
And when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.
And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:
For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.
And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of David his father.
And it shall come to pass, that the man’s rod, whom I shall choose, shall blossom: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, whereby they murmur against you.
And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath; and the coasts thereof did Israel deliver out of the hands of the Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites.
And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the Lord God of Israel, did eat,
Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of the jubile: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the Lord.
For the Lord will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
For it is the day of the Lord’s vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise.
And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
Then the priest shall consider: and, behold, if the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: it is all turned white: he is clean.
After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the half part of Beth–zur, unto the place over against the sepulchres of David, and to the pool that was made, and unto the house of the mighty.
We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the Lord, a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest:
And for the sides of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards.
And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.
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.
And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.
And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.
The tabernacle, his tent, and his covering, his taches, and his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his sockets,
And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed.
And when Joseph’s brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.
Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.
All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up with them of the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem.
That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:
If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the Lord; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the Lord a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering:
And the Lord shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the Lord shall lead you.
Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
It may be that the Lord will look on mine affliction, and that the Lord will requite me good for his cursing this day.
And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:
In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:
Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice: but, being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her.
For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness.
Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?
I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.
The Bible's verses on restoration paint a vivid picture of God's unwavering commitment to healing, rebuilding, and renewing what is broken. From personal restoration after sin, as exemplified in Joel's promise of restored years, to the grand, prophetic vision of a restored Israel and a new creation, these passages offer profound hope. They remind us that regardless of the depth of our wounds or the extent of our failures, God's grace is sufficient to bring about complete and lasting restoration. We are invited to reflect on these promises, anchoring our faith in the assurance that nothing is beyond His reach. May these verses inspire us to actively participate in the restorative work of God, both in our own lives and in the world around us, becoming agents of healing and reconciliation, reflecting His boundless love and redemptive power.