Hosea 14:9

God's Word

Wise people will understand these things. A person with insight will recognize them. The Lord’s ways are right. Righteous people live by them. Rebellious people stumble over them.

Cross References

Genesis 18:25

It would be unthinkable for you to do such a thing, to treat the innocent and the guilty alike and to kill the innocent with the guilty. That would be unthinkable! Won’t the judge of the whole earth do what is fair?”

Job 17:9

Yet, the righteous person clings to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.

Psalm 107:43

Let those who ⌞think⌟ they are wise pay attention to these things so that they may understand the Lord’s blessings.

Psalm 119:128

I follow the straight paths of your guiding principles. I hate every pathway that leads to lying.

Psalm 119:75

I know that your regulations are fair, O Lord, and that you were right to make me suffer.

Psalm 84:5

Blessed are those who find strength in you. Their hearts are on the road ⌞that leads to you⌟.

Psalm 84:7

Their strength grows as they go along until each one of them appears in front of God in Zion.

Proverbs 10:29

The way of the Lord is a fortress for an innocent person but a ruin to those who are troublemakers.

Proverbs 16:21

The person who is truly wise is called understanding, and speaking sweetly helps others learn.

Proverbs 4:18

But the path of righteous people is like the light of dawn that becomes brighter and brighter until it reaches midday.

Isaiah 1:28

Rebels and sinners will be crushed at the same time, and those who abandon the Lord will come to an end.

Isaiah 17:8

They won’t look to the altars made by their hands or to the Asherah poles or incense altars which their fingers molded.

Isaiah 26:7

The path of the righteous is level. O Upright One, you make the road of the righteous smooth.

Jeremiah 29:12

Then you will call to me. You will come and pray to me, and I will hear you.

Jeremiah 9:12

No one is wise enough to understand this. To whom has the Lord revealed this so that they can explain it? The land dies; it has been ruined like the desert so that no one can travel through it.

Ezekiel 11:18

They will come and remove all the disgusting and detestable things that are there.

Ezekiel 18:25

“But you say, ‘The Lord’s way is unfair.’ Listen, nation of Israel, isn’t my way fair? Isn’t it your ways that are unfair?

Ezekiel 36:25

I will sprinkle clean water on you and make you clean  instead of unclean. Then I will cleanse you from all your idols.

Daniel 12:10

Many will be purified, made white, and refined. But wicked people will do wicked things, and none of them will understand. Only wise people will understand.

Zephaniah 3:5

The righteous Lord is in that city. He does no wrong. He brings his judgment to light every morning. He does not fail. But those who are perverted are shameless.

Zechariah 10:6

“I will strengthen the people of Judah. I will rescue Joseph’s people. I will bring them back, because I have compassion for them. It will be as though I had never rejected them, because I am the Lord their God, and I will answer them.

Matthew 11:19

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and people say, ‘Look at him! He’s a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ “Yet, wisdom is proved right by its actions.”

Luke 2:34

Then Simeon blessed them and said to Mary, his mother, “This child is the reason that many people in Israel will be condemned and many others will be saved. He will be a sign that will expose

Luke 7:23

Whoever doesn’t lose his faith in me is indeed blessed.”

John 15:24

If I hadn’t done among them what no one else has done, they wouldn’t have any sin. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.

John 18:37

Pilate asked him, “So you are a king?” Jesus replied, “You’re correct in saying that I’m a king. I have been born and have come into the world for this reason: to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to me.”

John 8:47

The person who belongs to God understands what God says. You don’t understand because you don’t belong to God.”

John 9:39

Then Jesus said, “I have come into this world to judge: Blind people will be given sight, and those who can see will become blind.”

Acts 13:10

and said, “You are full of dirty tricks and schemes, you son of the devil! You hate everything that has God’s approval. Quit trying to distort the truth about the way the Lord wants people to live.

Romans 7:12

So the laws in Moses’ Teachings are holy, and the commandment is holy, right, and good.

Deuteronomy 32:4

He is a rock. What he does is perfect. All his ways are fair. He is a faithful God, who does no wrong. He is honorable and reliable.

Revelation 15:3

and singing the song of God’s servant Moses and the song of the lamb. They sang, “The things you do are spectacular and amazing, Lord God Almighty. The way you do them is fair and true, King of the Nations.