Hosea 2:1 Cross References

Hosea 2:1

"Once you were not a people; now you are the people of God. Once you received none of God's mercy; now you have received his mercy."

"At that time I will plant a crop of Israelites and raise them for myself! I will show love to those I called `Not loved.' And to those I called `Not my people,' I will say, `Now you are my people.' Then they will reply, `You are our God!'"

even though I used to scoff at the name of Christ. I hunted down his people, harming them in every way I could. But God had mercy on me because I did it in ignorance and unbelief.

I will make my home among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

And so, since God in his mercy has given us this wonderful ministry, we never give up.

"And you will live in Israel, the land I gave your ancestors long ago. You will be my people, and I will be your God.

And the LORD said, "Name him Lo-ammi--`Not my people'--for Israel is not my people, and I am not their God.
Yet the time will come when Israel will prosper and become a great nation. In that day its people will be like the sands of the seashore--too many to count! Then, at the place where they were told, `You are not my people,' it will be said, `You are children of the living God.'
Then the people of Judah and Israel will unite under one leader, and they will return from exile together. What a day that will be--the day of Jezreel--when God will again plant his people in his land. 1In that day you will call your brothers Ammi--`My people.' And you will call your sisters Ruhamah--`The ones I love.'

I will bring that group through the fire and make them pure, just as gold and silver are refined and purified by fire. They will call on my name, and I will answer them. I will say, `These are my people,' and they will say, `The LORD is our God.'"

"But this is the new covenant I will make with the people of Israel on that day," says the LORD. "I will put my laws in their minds, and I will write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

so they will obey my laws and regulations. Then they will truly be my people, and I will be their God.

Now if you will obey me and keep my covenant, you will be my own special treasure from among all the nations of the earth; for all the earth belongs to me.
And you will be to me a kingdom of priests, my holy nation.' Give this message to the Israelites."

Once, you Gentiles were rebels against God, but when the Jews refused his mercy, God was merciful to you instead.
And now, in the same way, the Jews are the rebels, and God's mercy has come to you. But someday they, too, will share in God's mercy.

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