Hosea 10:12

English Standard Version 2016

Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the Lord, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.

Cross References

James 3:18

And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

Isaiah 45:8

“Shower, O heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain down righteousness; let the earth open, that salvation and righteousness may bear fruit; let the earth cause them both to sprout; I the Lord have created it.

Proverbs 11:18

The wicked earns deceptive wages, but one who sows righteousness gets a sure reward.

Isaiah 55:6

“Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near;

Hosea 6:3

Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.”

Isaiah 44:3

For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants.

Ecclesiastes 11:6

In the morning sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand, for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.

Psalm 105:4

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

Luke 13:24

“Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.

Amos 5:15

Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

Amos 5:6

Seek the Lord and live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, with none to quench it for Bethel,

Isaiah 31:1

Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and rely on horses, who trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are very strong, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel or consult the Lord!

Amos 5:4

For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel: “Seek me and live;

Hosea 12:6

“So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God.”

Amos 5:8

He who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens the day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth, the Lord is his name;

Hosea 8:7

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; it shall yield no flour; if it were to yield, strangers would devour it.

Acts 2:18

even on my male servants and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy.

Ezekiel 34:26

And I will make them and the places all around my hill a blessing, and I will send down the showers in their season; they shall be showers of blessing.

Isaiah 32:20

Happy are you who sow beside all waters, who let the feet of the ox and the donkey range free.

Isaiah 30:23

And he will give rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and bread, the produce of the ground, which will be rich and plenteous. In that day your livestock will graze in large pastures,

Jeremiah 50:4

“In those days and in that time, declares the Lord, the people of Israel and the people of Judah shall come together, weeping as they come, and they shall seek the Lord their God.

Isaiah 5:6

I will make it a waste; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and briers and thorns shall grow up; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Proverbs 18:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

Psalm 72:6

May he be like rain that falls on the mown grass, like showers that water the earth!

2 Corinthians 9:10

He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.

Isaiah 48:18

Oh that you had paid attention to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;

Hosea 14:1

Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.

Isaiah 54:14

In righteousness you shall be established; you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near you.