This call is issued twenty-four times in the Word of God – all in the Old Covenant Scriptures (2 Kgs 20:16; 2 Chron 18:18; Isa 1:10; 28:14; 39:5; 66:5; Jer 7:2; 9:20; 22:2,29; 31:10; 34:4; 42:15; 44:24; Ezek 6:3; 16:35; 20:47; 25:3; 34:7,9; 36:1,4; 37:4; Hos 5:1).
Ayat ti kangrunaan a pakailasinan dagiti pasurot ni Kristo, ket “ti ayat . . . saanna a sapulen dagiti bukodna a pagimbagan.”—1 Corinto 13:4, 5; Juan 13:34, 35.