15 Bible Verses About Restoration, and What God Promises to Give Back

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Résumé

  • Restoration in Scripture is usually a return rather than a repair: the Hebrew shuv means to turn back, and it moves in both directions — a people turns to God, and God turns to them.
  • Joel 2:25 promises back the years a locust plague ate, answering a literal agricultural disaster with a literal harvest.
  • Psalm 80 asks “Restore us, O God” three times and closes without recording an answer, which is why it is a fair prayer for anyone still waiting.
  • Galatians 6:1 uses katartizo, the word Matthew uses for mending nets, and turns its warning back on the person doing the mending.
  • Acts 3:21 is the New Testament’s single use of apocatastase, the restoration of all things, which every other promise here anticipates.

Restoration in Scripture is rarely a repair. The Hebrew word under most of these passages is shuv — to turn back, to return — and it moves both ways at once: a people turns back to God, and God turns back to them. What is promised is a return, often of the very thing that was taken. Most of us come to this word carrying something specific: a marriage that went quiet, a year lost to illness, a faith we…

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Bibliographie (cliquer pour afficher)

Scripture quotations are from the English Standard Version.

The Church of England. The Book of Common Prayer: The Psalter, Psalms 22–23. Coverdale’s rendering of Psalm 23:3, “He shall convert my soul.” churchofengland.org

Strong’s Hebrew 7725, שׁוּב (shuv): to return, turn back, restore. biblehub.com/hebrew/7725

Strong’s Greek 2675, καταρτίζω (katartizo): to mend, repair, restore; used of fishermen mending nets in Matthew 4:21. biblehub.com/greek/2675

Strong’s Greek 605, ἀποκατάστασις (apocatastase): restoration; its only New Testament occurrence is Acts 3:21. biblehub.com/greek/605

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