Hosea 4:2 Cross References

Hosea 4:2

2: You curse and lie and kill and steal and commit adultery. There is violence everywhere, with one murder after another.

Hosea 6:9

  1. Its citizens are bands of robbers, lying in ambush for their victims. Gangs of priests murder travelers along the road to Shechem and practice every kind of sin.

Micah 7:2

  1. The godly people have all disappeared; not one fair-minded person is left on the earth. They are all murderers, even setting traps for their own brothers.

Hosea 7:1

  1. "I wanted to heal Israel, but its sins were far too great. Samaria is filled with liars, thieves, and bandits!

Jeremiah 7:6

  1. and if you stop exploiting foreigners, orphans, and widows; and if you stop your murdering; and if you stop worshiping idols as you now do to your own harm.
  2. Then I will let you stay in this land that I gave to your ancestors to keep forever.
  3. " `Do you think that because the Temple is here you will never suffer? Don't fool yourselves!
  4. Do you really think you can steal, murder, commit adultery, lie, and worship Baal and all those other new gods of yours,
  5. and then come here and stand before me in my Temple and chant, "We are safe!"--only to go right back to all those evils again?

Jeremiah 5:26

  1. "Among my people are wicked men who lie in wait for victims like a hunter hiding in a blind. They are continually setting traps for other people.
  2. Like a cage filled with birds, their homes are filled with evil plots. And the result? Now they are great and rich.

Jeremiah 6:7

  1. She spouts evil like a fountain! Her streets echo with the sounds of violence and destruction. Her sickness and sores are ever before me.

Ezekiel 22:25

  1. Your princes plot conspiracies just as lions stalk their prey. They devour innocent people, seizing treasures and extorting wealth. They increase the number of widows in the land.
  2. Your priests have violated my laws and defiled my holy things. To them there is no difference between what is holy and what is not. And they do not teach my people the difference between what is ceremonially clean and unclean. They disregard my Sabbath days so that my holy name is greatly dishonored among them.
  3. Your leaders are like wolves, who tear apart their victims. They actually destroy people's lives for profit!
  4. And your prophets announce false visions and speak false messages. They say, `My message is from the Sovereign LORD,' when the LORD hasn't spoken a single word to them. They repair cracked walls with whitewash!
  5. Even common people oppress the poor, rob the needy, and deprive foreigners of justice.

Jeremiah 5:7

  1. "How can I pardon you? For even your children have turned from me. They have sworn by gods that are not gods at all! I fed my people until they were fully satisfied. But they thanked me by committing adultery and lining up at the city's brothels.
  2. They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing for his neighbor's wife.
  3. Should I not punish them for this?" asks the LORD. "Should I not avenge myself against a nation such as this?

Hosea 12:14

  1. But the people of Israel have bitterly provoked the LORD, so their Lord will now sentence them to death in payment for their sins.

Jeremiah 9:2

  1. Oh, that I could go away and forget them and live in a shack in the desert, for they are all adulterous and treacherous.
  2. "My people bend their tongues like bows to shoot lies. They refuse to stand up for the truth. And they only go from bad to worse! They care nothing for me," says the LORD.
  3. "Beware of your neighbor! Beware of your brother! They all take advantage of one another and spread their slanderous lies.
  4. They all fool and defraud each other; no one tells the truth. With practiced tongues they tell lies; they wear themselves out with all their sinning.
  5. They pile lie upon lie and utterly refuse to come to me," says the LORD.

Zechariah 7:9

  1. "This is what the LORD Almighty says: Judge fairly and honestly, and show mercy and kindness to one another.

Revelation 17:6

  1. I could see that she was drunk--drunk with the blood of God's holy people who were witnesses for Jesus. I stared at her completely amazed.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

  1. For some of the Jews had killed their own prophets, and some even killed the Lord Jesus. Now they have persecuted us and driven us out. They displease God and oppose everyone

Isaiah 59:2

  1. But there is a problem--your sins have cut you off from God. Because of your sin, he has turned away and will not listen anymore.
  2. Your hands are the hands of murderers, and your fingers are filthy with sin. Your mouth is full of lies, and your lips are tainted with corruption.
  3. No one cares about being fair and honest. Their lawsuits are based on lies. They spend their time plotting evil deeds and then doing them.
  4. They spend their time and energy spinning evil plans that end up in deadly actions.
  5. They cheat and shortchange everyone. Nothing they do is productive; all their activity is filled with sin. Violence is their trademark.

Zephaniah 3:1

  1. How terrible it will be for rebellious, polluted Jerusalem, the city of violence and crime.

Micah 3:2

  1. but you are the very ones who hate good and love evil. You skin my people alive and tear the flesh off their bones.

Isaiah 24:5

  1. The earth suffers for the sins of its people, for they have twisted the instructions of God, violated his laws, and broken his everlasting covenant.

Lamentations 4:13

  1. Yet it happened because of the sins of her prophets and priests, who defiled the city by shedding innocent blood.

Hosea 7:3

  1. The people make the king glad with their wickedness. The princes laugh about the people's many lies.

Jeremiah 23:10

  1. For the land is full of adultery, and it lies under a curse. The land itself is in mourning--its pastures are dried up. For the prophets do evil and abuse their power.
  2. "The priests are like the prophets, all ungodly, wicked men. I have seen their despicable acts right here in my own Temple," says the LORD.
  3. "Therefore, their paths will be dark and slippery. They will be chased down dark and treacherous trails, where they will fall. For I will bring disaster upon them when their time of punishment comes. I, the LORD, have spoken!
  4. "I saw that the prophets of Samaria were terribly evil, for they prophesied by Baal and led my people of Israel into sin.
  5. But now I see that the prophets of Jerusalem are even worse! They commit adultery, and they love dishonesty. They encourage those who are doing evil instead of turning them away from their sins. These prophets are as wicked as the people of Sodom and Gomorrah once were."

Micah 6:10

  1. Will there be no end of your getting rich by cheating? The homes of the wicked are filled with treasures gained by dishonestly measuring out grain in short measures.

Zechariah 5:3

  1. Then he said to me, "This scroll contains the curse that is going out over the entire land. One side says that those who steal will be banished from the land; the other side says that those who swear falsely will be banished from the land.

Isaiah 48:1

  1. "Listen to me, O family of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel and born into the family of Judah. Listen, you who take oaths in the name of the LORD and call on the God of Israel. You don't follow through on any of your promises,

Isaiah 59:12

  1. For our sins are piled up before God and testify against us. Yes, we know what sinners we are.
  2. We know that we have rebelled against the LORD. We have turned our backs on God. We know how unfair and oppressive we have been, carefully planning our deceitful lies.
  3. Our courts oppose people who are righteous, and justice is nowhere to be found. Truth falls dead in the streets, and fairness has been outlawed.
  4. Yes, truth is gone, and anyone who tries to live a godly life is soon attacked. The LORD looked and was displeased to find that there was no justice.

Micah 2:1

  1. How terrible it will be for you who lie awake at night, thinking up evil plans. You rise at dawn and hurry to carry out any of the wicked schemes you have power to accomplish.
  2. When you want a certain piece of land, you find a way to seize it. When you want someone's house, you take it by fraud and violence. No one's family or inheritance is safe with you around!
  3. But this is what the LORD says: "I will reward your evil with evil; you won't be able to escape! After I am through with you, none of you will ever again walk proudly in the streets."

Jeremiah 5:1

  1. "Run up and down every street in Jerusalem," says the LORD. "Look high and low; search throughout the city! If you can find even one person who is just and honest, I will not destroy the city.
  2. Even when they are under oath, saying, `As surely as the LORD lives,' they all tell lies!"

Matthew 23:35

  1. As a result, you will become guilty of murdering all the godly people from righteous Abel to Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered in the Temple between the altar and the sanctuary.

Hosea 10:4

  1. They spout empty words and make promises they don't intend to keep. So perverted justice springs up among them like poisonous weeds in a farmer's field.

Hosea 5:2

  1. You have dug a deep pit to trap them at Acacia. But never forget--I will settle with all of you for what you have done.

Ezekiel 22:2

  1. "Son of man, are you ready to judge Jerusalem? Are you ready to judge this city of murderers? Denounce her terrible deeds in public,
  2. and give her this message from the Sovereign LORD: O city of murderers, doomed and damned--city of idols, filthy and foul--
  3. you are guilty of both murder and idolatry. Your day of destruction has come! You have reached the end of your years. I will make you an object of mockery throughout the world.
  4. O infamous city, filled with confusion, you will be mocked by people both far and near.
  5. "Every leader in Israel who lives within your walls is bent on murder.

Micah 3:9

  1. Listen to me, you leaders of Israel! You hate justice and twist all that is right.

Acts 7:52

  1. Name one prophet your ancestors didn't persecute! They even killed the ones who predicted the coming of the Righteous One--the Messiah whom you betrayed and murdered.
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