Hosea 4:6

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will reject you  from serving as my priest. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your sons.

Cross References

Isaiah 5:13

Therefore my people will go into exile because they lack knowledge; her  dignitaries are starving, and her masses are parched with thirst.

Proverbs 19:2

Even zeal is not good without knowledge, and the one who acts hastily   sins.

Hosea 6:6

For I desire faithful love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God  rather than burnt offerings.

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of the  Lord,  people of Israel, for the Lord has a case against the inhabitants of the land: There is no truth,  no faithful love, and no knowledge of God  in the land!

Matthew 15:8

This people   honours me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

Hosea 8:14

Israel has forgotten his Maker  and built palaces; Judah has also multiplied fortified cities. I will send fire on their cities, and it will consume their citadels.

Isaiah 17:10

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and you have failed to remember the rock of your strength; therefore you will plant beautiful plants and set out cuttings from exotic vines.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests stopped asking, ‘Where is the  Lord? ’ The experts in the law no longer knew me, and the rulers  rebelled against me. The prophets prophesied by   Baal and followed useless idols.

2 Chronicles 15:3

For many years Israel has been without the true God,  without a teaching priest, and without instruction,

Hosea 13:6

When they had pasture, they became satisfied; they were satisfied, and their hearts became proud. Therefore they forgot me.

Isaiah 1:3

The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s feeding trough, but Israel does not know; my people do not understand.’

Jeremiah 4:22

‘For my people are fools; they do not know me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing what is evil, but they do not know how to do what is good.’

Job 36:12

But if they do not listen, they will cross the river of death and die without knowledge.

Jeremiah 5:21

Hear this, you foolish and senseless   people. They have eyes, but they don’t see. They have ears, but they don’t hear.

Isaiah 3:12

Youths oppress my people, and women rule over them. My people, your leaders mislead you; they confuse the direction of your paths.

Matthew 15:14

Leave them alone! They are blind guides.   And if the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.’

Hosea 8:12

Though I were to write out for him ten thousand points of my instruction, they would be  regarded as something strange.

Hosea 8:1

Put the ram’s horn to your mouth! One like an eagle comes against the house of the  Lord, because they transgress my covenant and rebel against my law.

Hosea 4:12

My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of promiscuity leads them astray; they act promiscuously in disobedience to   their God.

Hosea 2:13

And I will punish her for the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense. She put on her rings and her jewellery and followed her lovers, but she forgot me. This is the  Lord’s declaration.

1 Samuel 2:12

Eli’s sons were wicked men;  they did not respect the Lord

Isaiah 45:20

‘Come, gather together, and approach, you fugitives of the nations. Those who carry their wooden idols and pray to a god who cannot save have no knowledge.

Isaiah 27:11

When its branches dry out, they will be broken off. Women will come and make fires with them, for they are not a people with understanding. Therefore their Maker  will not have compassion on them, and their Creator will not be gracious to them.

Isaiah 28:7

Even these stagger because of wine and stumble under the influence of beer: Priest and prophet stagger because of beer. They are confused by wine. They stumble because of beer. They are muddled in their visions. They stumble in their judgements.

Matthew 1:6

and Jesse fathered King David. David fathered Solomon  by Uriah’s wife,

Proverbs 10:21

The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of sense.

Ezekiel 44:23

They are to teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and explain to them the difference between the clean and the unclean.

Hosea 4:14

I will not punish your daughters when they act promiscuously or your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery, for the men themselves go off with prostitutes and make sacrifices with cult prostitutes. People without discernment are doomed.

Hosea 5:4

Their actions do not allow them to return to their God, for a spirit of promiscuity is among them, and they do not know the  Lord.

Hosea 7:9

Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with grey, but he does not notice.

Hosea 7:11

So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove; they call to Egypt,  and they go to Assyria.

Isaiah 29:12

And if the document is given to one who cannot read and he is asked to read it,  he will say, ‘I can’t read.’

Hosea 9:17

My God will reject them because they have not listened to him; they will become wanderers among the nations.