Bible Verses on Call to Return to God from Sirach|

A Call to Repentance Sirach 17:25-32

• Be converted to the LORD and give up your sins; plead with him to lessen your offence. 
•  Return to the Almighty and turn aside from wrongdoing, and totally detest evil.  
•  For who in the grave will praise the Almighty, if the living do not give him glory?  
• The dead man is as if he did not exist, and cannot give praise; he who has life and health can praise the LORD.  
• How great is the mercy of the LORD and his forgiveness for those who turn to him!  
• Man cannot have everything in his power, since he is not immortal.  
• What is brighter than the sun? Yet it disappears. Man is no more than flesh and blood, yet he thinks of doing evil.  
• While the LORD surveys the sun and the stars in the lofty sky, all men remain dust and ashes.