Hosea 4:14 Cross References
Hosea 4:14
14: Why should I punish them? For you men are doing the same thing, sinning with whores and shrine prostitutes. O foolish people! You will be destroyed, for you refuse to understand.
Hosea 4:1
- Hear the word of the LORD, O people of Israel! The LORD has filed a lawsuit against you, saying: "There is no faithfulness, no kindness, no knowledge of God in your land.
Deuteronomy 23:17
- "No Israelite man or woman may ever become a temple prostitute.
Isaiah 44:18
- Such stupidity and ignorance! Their eyes are closed, and they cannot see. Their minds are shut, and they cannot think.
- The person who made the idol never stops to reflect, "Why, it's just a block of wood! I burned half of it for heat and used it to bake my bread and roast my meat. How can the rest of it be a god? Should I bow down to worship a chunk of wood?"
- The poor, deluded fool feeds on ashes. He is trusting something that can give him no help at all. Yet he cannot bring himself to ask, "Is this thing, this idol that I'm holding in my hand, a lie?"
Proverbs 28:5
- Evil people don't understand justice, but those who follow the LORD understand completely.
Isaiah 1:5
- Why do you continue to invite punishment? Must you rebel forever? Your head is injured, and your heart is sick.
Hosea 4:17
- Leave her alone because she is married to idolatry.
1 Kings 14:23
- They built pagan shrines and set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
- There were even shrine prostitutes throughout the land. The people imitated the detestable practices of the pagan nations the LORD had driven from the land ahead of the Israelites.
Hebrews 12:8
- If God doesn't discipline you as he does all of his children, it means that you are illegitimate and are not really his children after all.
John 8:43
- Why can't you understand what I am saying? It is because you are unable to do so!
Hosea 4:5
- As a sentence for your crimes, you will stumble in broad daylight, just as you might at night, and so will your false prophets. And I will destroy your mother, Israel.
- My people are being destroyed because they don't know me. It is all your fault, you priests, for you yourselves refuse to know me. Now I refuse to recognize you as my priests. Since you have forgotten the laws of your God, I will forget to bless your children.
Ephesians 4:18
- Their closed minds are full of darkness; they are far away from the life of God because they have shut their minds and hardened their hearts against him.
2 Kings 23:7
- He also tore down the houses of the shrine prostitutes that were inside the Temple of the LORD, where the women wove coverings for the Asherah pole.
1 Corinthians 6:16
- And don't you know that if a man joins himself to a prostitute, he becomes one body with her? For the Scriptures say, "The two are united into one."
1 Kings 15:12
- He banished the shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols his ancestors had made.
Romans 3:11
- No one has real understanding; no one is seeking God.
Hosea 14:9
- Let those who are wise understand these things. Let those who are discerning listen carefully. The paths of the LORD are true and right, and righteous people live by walking in them. But sinners stumble and fall along the way.
Isaiah 56:11
- And they are as greedy as dogs, never satisfied. They are stupid shepherds, all following their own path, all of them intent on personal gain.
Daniel 12:10
- Many will be purified, cleansed, and refined by these trials. But the wicked will continue in their wickedness, and none of them will understand. Only those who are wise will know what it means.