Hosea 14:8 Cross References
Hosea 14:8
8: "O Israel, stay away from idols! I am the one who looks after you and cares for you. I am like a tree that is always green, giving my fruit to you all through the year."
Job 34:32
- Or `I don't know what evil I have done; tell me, and I will stop at once'?
James 1:17
- Whatever is good and perfect comes to us from God above, who created all heaven's lights. Unlike them, he never changes or casts shifting shadows.
Isaiah 41:19
- I will plant trees--cedar, acacia, myrtle, olive, cypress, fir, and pine--on barren land.
1 Peter 4:3
- You have had enough in the past of the evil things that godless people enjoy--their immorality and lust, their feasting and drunkenness and wild parties, and their terrible worship of idols.
- Of course, your former friends are very surprised when you no longer join them in the wicked things they do, and they say evil things about you.
Luke 15:20
- "So he returned home to his father. And while he was still a long distance away, his father saw him coming. Filled with love and compassion, he ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him.
1 Thessalonians 1:9
- for they themselves keep talking about the wonderful welcome you gave us and how you turned away from idols to serve the true and living God.
Galatians 5:22
- But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
- gentleness, and self-control. Here there is no conflict with the law.
Isaiah 55:13
- Where once there were thorns, cypress trees will grow. Where briers grew, myrtles will sprout up. This miracle will bring great honor to the LORD's name; it will be an everlasting sign of his power and love.
1 Peter 1:14
- Obey God because you are his children. Don't slip back into your old ways of doing evil; you didn't know any better then.
- But now you must be holy in everything you do, just as God--who chose you to be his children--is holy.
- For he himself has said, "You must be holy because I am holy."
John 1:16
- We have all benefited from the rich blessings he brought to us--one gracious blessing after another.
Isaiah 60:13
- The glory of Lebanon will be yours--the forests of cypress, fir, and pine--to beautify my sanctuary. My Temple will be glorious!
John 15:1
- "I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.
- He cuts off every branch that doesn't produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more.
- You have already been pruned for greater fruitfulness by the message I have given you.
- Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful apart from me.
- "Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing.
Philippians 2:13
- For God is working in you, giving you the desire to obey him and the power to do what pleases him.
Ephesians 5:9
- For this light within you produces only what is good and right and true.
Acts 19:18
- Many who became believers confessed their sinful practices.
- A number of them who had been practicing magic brought their incantation books and burned them at a public bonfire. The value of the books was several million dollars.
- So the message about the Lord spread widely and had a powerful effect.
Job 33:27
- He will declare to his friends, `I sinned, but it was not worth it.
Philippians 1:11
- May you always be filled with the fruit of your salvation--those good things that are produced in your life by Jesus Christ--for this will bring much glory and praise to God.
Hosea 14:2
- Bring your petitions, and return to the LORD. Say to him, "Forgive all our sins and graciously receive us, so that we may offer you the sacrifice of praise.
- Assyria cannot save us, nor can our strength in battle. Never again will we call the idols we have made `our gods.' No, in you alone do the orphans find mercy."
John 1:47
- As they approached, Jesus said, "Here comes an honest man--a true son of Israel."
- "How do you know about me?" Nathanael asked. And Jesus replied, "I could see you under the fig tree before Philip found you."
Jeremiah 31:18
- I have heard Israel saying, `You disciplined me severely, but I deserved it. I was like a calf that needed to be trained for the yoke and plow. Turn me again to you and restore me, for you alone are the LORD my God.
- I turned away from God, but then I was sorry. I kicked myself for my stupidity! I was thoroughly ashamed of all I did in my younger days.'
- "Is not Israel still my son, my darling child?" asks the LORD. "I had to punish him, but I still love him. I long for him and surely will have mercy on him.
Philippians 4:13
- For I can do everything with the help of Christ who gives me the strength I need.