Hosea 4:18

God's Word

When they’re done drinking their wine, they continue to have sex with the prostitutes. Their rulers dearly love to act shamefully.

Cross References

Genesis 38:24

About three months later Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has been acting like a prostitute. What’s more, because of it she’s pregnant.” Judah ordered, “Bring her out to be burned.”

Psalm 47:9

The influential people from the nations gather together as the people of the God of Abraham. The rulers of the earth belong to God. He rules everything.

Exodus 23:8

Never take a bribe, because bribes blind those who can see and deny justice to those who are in the right.

Jeremiah 2:21

I planted you like a choice grapevine from the very best seed. Now you have turned against me and have become a wild vine.

Ezekiel 16:15

“ ‘But you trusted your beauty, and you used your fame to become a prostitute. You had sex with everyone who walked by.

Hosea 4:10

“They will eat, but they’ll never be full. They will have sex with prostitutes, but they’ll never have children. They have abandoned the Lord.

Hosea 4:2

There is cursing, lying, murdering, stealing, and adultery. People break ⌞my laws⌟, and there is one murder after another.

Hosea 9:10

⌞The Lord said,⌟ “When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the desert. When I saw your ancestors, it was like seeing the first figs of the harvest. But they went to Baal Peor and worshiped shameful idols. They became as disgusting as the things they worshiped.

Amos 5:12

I know that your crimes are numerous and your sins are many. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes. You deny the needy access to the courts.

Micah 3:11

Your leaders exchange justice for bribes. Your priests teach for a price. Your prophets tell the future for money. But they rely on the Lord when they say, “After all, the Lord is with us. Nothing bad will happen to us.”

Micah 7:3

Their hands are skilled in doing evil. Officials ask for gifts. Judges accept bribes. Powerful people dictate what they want. So they scheme together.

Deuteronomy 16:19

Never pervert justice. Instead, be impartial. Never take a bribe, because bribes blind wise people and deny justice to those who are in the right.

1 Samuel 8:3

The sons didn’t follow their father’s example but turned to dishonest ways of making money. They took bribes and denied people justice.