Hosea 12:6 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁶ Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgement, and wait on thy God continually.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ Therefore return to your God! Hold fast to love and mercy, to righteousness and justice, and wait [expectantly] for your God continually!

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep kindness and justice, and wait for thy God continually.

Common English Bible

⁶ But you! Return to your God with faithful love and justice, and wait continually for your God.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ And so, you should convert to your God. Keep mercy and judgment, and have hope in your God always.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and hope in thy God always.

Hosea 12:6 Cross References

Genesis 49:18

I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.

Psalm 123:2

Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their master, As the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; So our eyes look unto the LORD our God, until he have mercy upon us.

Psalm 27:14

Wait on the LORD: Be strong, and let thine heart take courage; Yea, wait thou on the LORD.

Psalm 37:7

Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: Fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, Because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.

Exodus 3:15

And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.

Proverbs 1:23

Turn you at my reproof: Behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

Proverbs 21:3

To do justice and judgement Is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

Isaiah 1:16

Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil:

Isaiah 30:18

And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgement; blessed are all they that wait for him.

Isaiah 31:6

Turn ye unto him from whom ye have deeply revolted, O children of Israel.

Isaiah 40:31

but they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.

Isaiah 58:6

Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

Isaiah 8:17

And I will wait for the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

Jeremiah 22:15

Shalt thou reign, because thou strivest to excel in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgement and justice? then it was well with him.

Ezekiel 18:30

Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD Return ye, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.

Hosea 10:12

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.

Hosea 14:1

O ISRAEL, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

Joel 2:12

Yet even now, saith the LORD, turn ye unto me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:

Joel 2:13

and rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God, for he is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy, and repenteth him of the evil.

Amos 4:13

For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth; the LORD, the God of hosts, is his name.

Amos 5:24

But let judgement roll down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

Micah 6:8

He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Micah 7:7

But as for me, I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.

Habakkuk 2:3

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hasteth toward the end, and shall not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.

Zephaniah 3:8

Therefore wait ye for me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger; for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

Zechariah 1:3

Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts: Return unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.

Zechariah 7:9

Thus hath the LORD of hosts spoken, saying, Execute true judgement, and shew mercy and compassion every man to his brother:

Zechariah 8:16

These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth with his neighbour; execute the judgement of truth and peace in your gates:

Acts 2:38

And Peter said unto them, Repent ye, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Acts 26:20

but declared both to them of Damascus first, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judaea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

James 2:13

For judgement is without mercy to him that hath shewed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgement.