Hosea 2:2

Free Bible Version

Condemn your mother, condemn her because she is not my wife and I am not her husband. Tell her to stop looking like a prostitute—get rid of the makeup and the provocative clothing.

Cross References

Isaiah 11:12

He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiled people of Israel; he will bring together the scattered people of Judah from the ends of the earth.

Isaiah 50:1

This is what the Lord says: Where's your mother's divorce certificate I gave her when I sent her away? Which of my creditors did I sell you to? Now look! You were sold because of your sins, and your mother was sent away because of your wrongdoing.

Isaiah 58:1

Give a roar from the throat! Don't hold back! Shout out like a trumpet! Announce to my people how rebellious they are; denounce to the descendants of Jacob their sins.

Jeremiah 19:3

Tell them, Listen to what the Lord says, kings of Judah and people living in Jerusalem. This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring down on this place such a disaster that it will make the ears of anyone who hears about it ring.

Jeremiah 2:2

Go and announce to the people of Jerusalem that this is what the Lord says: I remember when you were young how devoted to me you were. I remember how you loved me when you were my bride. I remember how you followed me in the desert, in a land where nothing is grown.

Jeremiah 3:1

If a man divorces his wife and she goes and marries someone else, could he ever go back to her? Wouldn't the country be made totally unclean by this? But you have done worse by prostituting yourselves with many lovers, and now you want to come back to me? declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:13

Just admit you did wrong, that you rebelled against the Lord your God. You spread yourself around, committing adultery by worshiping foreign gods under every green tree, refusing to do what I told you, declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:18

At that time the people of Judah will join with the people of Israel, and they will return from the land of the north to the country I gave to your forefathers to own.

Ezekiel 16:20

You sacrificed your sons and daughters—the children you had for me—offering them as food for idols to eat. Wasn't your prostitution evil enough?

Ezekiel 16:25

You made yourselves high places of idol worship at the top of every street; you degraded yourself, offering your beautiful body to anyone who passed by, opening your legs for them, becoming more and more promiscuous.

Ezekiel 20:4

Are you going to condemn them—will you do that, son of man? Remind them about the disgusting things their forefathers did,

Ezekiel 23:43

Then I said about the old worn-out woman, ‘Now they can have her as a prostitute because that's what she is!’

Ezekiel 23:45

But men who believe in doing what's right will judge them and impose the punishment for committing adultery and murder, because they are adulterers and murderers.

Hosea 1:2

The Lord began speaking through Hosea by telling him, “Go and take a wife who is a prostitute and have children born to a prostitute, because those living in this land have committed terrible prostitution by turning away from the Lord.”

Hosea 2:1

“On that day you will call your brothers Ammi, and you will call your sisters Ruhamah.

Hosea 2:5

For their mother was a prostitute who conceived them in a shameful way. She said, ‘I'll run after my lovers who give me my food and water, my wool and flax and olive oil, and my drink.’

Hosea 4:5

Consequently you will stumble in daylight, and the prophet will stumble together with you in the night, and I will destroy your mother.

Micah 2:13

The One who opens the way for them will lead them, breaking through the gate and going out. Their King will lead them; the Lord himself will be at their head.

2 Corinthians 5:16

From now on we don't look at anyone from a human point of view. Even though we once viewed Christ this way, we don't do so any longer.