Hosea 14:8

Good News Translation

The people of Israel will have nothing more to do with idols; I will answer their prayers and take care of them. Like an evergreen tree I will shelter them; I am the source of all their blessings.”

Cross References

Job 33:27

Each one will say in public, “I have sinned. I have not done right, but God spared me.

Job 34:32

Have you asked God to show you your faults, and have you agreed to stop doing evil?

Isaiah 41:19

I will make cedars grow in the desert, and acacias and myrtles and olive trees. Forests will grow in barren land, forests of pine and juniper and cypress.

Isaiah 55:13

Cypress trees will grow where now there are briers; myrtle trees will come up in place of thorns. This will be a sign that will last forever, a reminder of what I, the Lord, have done.”

Isaiah 60:13

“The wood of the pine, the juniper, and the cypress, The finest wood from the forests of Lebanon, Will be brought to rebuild you, Jerusalem, To make my Temple beautiful, To make my city glorious.

Ezekiel 17:23

on Israel's highest mountain. It will grow branches and bear seed and become a magnificent cedar. Birds of every kind will live there and find shelter in its shade.

Ezekiel 36:25

I will sprinkle clean water on you and make you clean from all your idols and everything else that has defiled you.

Luke 15:20

So he got up and started back to his father. “He was still a long way from home when his father saw him; his heart was filled with pity, and he ran, threw his arms around his son, and kissed him.

John 1:16

Out of the fullness of his grace he has blessed us all, giving us one blessing after another.

Ephesians 5:9

for it is the light that brings a rich harvest of every kind of goodness, righteousness, and truth.

Philippians 1:11

Your lives will be filled with the truly good qualities which only Jesus Christ can produce, for the glory and praise of God.

Philippians 2:13

because God is always at work in you to make you willing and able to obey his own purpose.

Philippians 4:13

I have the strength to face all conditions by the power that Christ gives me.

1 Thessalonians 1:9

All those people speak about how you received us when we visited you, and how you turned away from idols to God, to serve the true and living God

James 1:17

Every good gift and every perfect present comes from heaven; it comes down from God, the Creator of the heavenly lights, who does not change or cause darkness by turning.