Hosea 4:6

A Conservative Version

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because thou have rejected knowledge, I also will reject thee, that thou shall be no priest to me. Since thou have forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy sons.

Cross References

Isaiah 5:13

Therefore my people have gone into captivity for lack of knowledge, and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude are parched with thirst.

Proverbs 19:2

Also, that the soul be without knowledge is not good. And he who hastens with his feet sins.

Hosea 6:6

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of LORD, ye sons of Israel, for LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

Matthew 15:8

This people comes near me with their mouth, and honors me with their lips, but their heart is far distant from me.

Hosea 8:14

For Israel has forgotten his maker, and built palaces. And Judah has multiplied fortified cities. But I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the castles thereof.

Isaiah 17:10

For thou have forgotten the God of thy salvation, and have not been mindful of the rock of thy strength. Therefore thou plant pleasant plants, and set it with foreign slips.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not say, Where is LORD? and those who handle the law did not know me. The rulers also transgressed against me. And the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

2 Chronicles 15:3

Now for a long time Israel was without the TRUE God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.

Hosea 13:6

According to their pasture, so they were filled. They were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.

Isaiah 1:3

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib, [but] Israel does not know; my people does not consider.

Jeremiah 4:22

For my people are foolish. They do not know me. They are sottish sons, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Job 36:12

But if they do not hearken, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.

Jeremiah 5:21

Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding, who have eyes, and see not, who have ears, and hear not:

Isaiah 3:12

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, those who lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

Psalm 119:139

My zeal has consumed me, because my adversaries have forgotten thy words.

Psalm 119:61

The cords of the wicked have wrapped me around, [but] I have not forgotten thy law.

Matthew 15:14

Leave them. They are blind leaders of blind men, and if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a ditch.

Hosea 8:12

I wrote for him the ten thousand things of my law, but they are counted as a strange thing.

Hosea 8:1

[Set] the trumpet to thy mouth. As an eagle [he comes] against the house of LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.

Hosea 4:12

My people ask counsel at their stock, and their staff declares to them, for the spirit of whoredom has caused them to err, and they have played the harlot, [departing] from under their God.

Hosea 2:13

And I will visit upon her the days of the Baalim, to which she burned incense when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, says LORD.

1 Samuel 2:12

Now the sons of Eli were base men; they knew not LORD.

Isaiah 45:20

Assemble yourselves and come, draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations. They have no knowledge that carry the wood of their graven image, and pray to a god that cannot save.

Isaiah 27:11

When the boughs of it are withered, they shall be broken off. The women shall come, and set them on fire, for it is a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion upon them, and he who formed them

Isaiah 28:7

And even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up of wine. They stagger with strong drink; they err in vision; they stumble in judgment.

Matthew 1:6

and Jesse begot David the king. And David begot Solomon from the widow of Uriah,

Psalm 119:153

Consider my affliction, and deliver me, for I do not forget thy law.

Proverbs 10:21

The lips of a righteous man feeds many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.

Ezekiel 44:23

And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

Hosea 4:14

I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot, nor your brides when they commit adultery. For themselves go apart with harlots, and they sacrifice with the prostitutes. And the people who do not understand shall be ove

Hosea 5:4

Their doings will not allow them to turn to their God, for the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they do not know LORD.

Hosea 7:9

Strangers have devoured his strength, and he does not know. Yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, and he does not know.

Hosea 7:11

And Ephraim is like a silly dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.

Psalm 18:27

For thou will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes thou will bring down.

Isaiah 29:12

And the book is delivered to him who is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee. And he says, I am not learned.

Hosea 9:17

My God will cast them away because they did not hearken to him, and they shall be wanderers among the nations.