Hosea 2:19

Good News Translation

Israel, I will make you my wife; I will be true and faithful; I will show you constant love and mercy and make you mine forever.

Cross References

Psalm 85:10

Love and faithfulness will meet; righteousness and peace will embrace.

Isaiah 1:27

Because the Lord is righteous, he will save Jerusalem and everyone there who repents.

Isaiah 54:14

Justice and right will make you strong. You will be safe from oppression and terror.

Isaiah 54:5

Your Creator will be like a husband to you— the Lord Almighty is his name. The holy God of Israel will save you— he is the ruler of all the world.

Isaiah 54:6

Israel, you are like a young wife, deserted by her husband and deeply distressed. But the Lord calls you back to him and says:

Jeremiah 4:2

it will be right for you to swear by my name. Then all the nations will ask me to bless them, and they will praise me.”

Ezekiel 16:8

“As I passed by again, I saw that the time had come for you to fall in love. I covered your naked body with my coat and promised to love you. Yes, I made a marriage covenant with you, and you became mine.” This is what the Sovereign Lord says.

Ezekiel 39:29

I will pour out my spirit on the people of Israel and never again turn away from them. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken.”

Hosea 14:4

The Lord says, “I will bring my people back to me. I will love them with all my heart; no longer am I angry with them.

Joel 3:20

I will avenge those who were killed; I will not spare the guilty. But Judah and Jerusalem will be inhabited forever, and I, the Lord, will live on Mount Zion.”

Zechariah 13:2

At that time I will remove the names of the idols from the land, and no one will remember them any more. I will get rid of anyone who claims to be a prophet and will take away the desire to worship idols.

John 3:29

The bridegroom is the one to whom the bride belongs; but the bridegroom's friend, who stands by and listens, is glad when he hears the bridegroom's voice. This is how my own happiness is made complete.

Romans 7:4

That is how it is with you, my friends. As far as the Law is concerned, you also have died because you are part of the body of Christ; and now you belong to him who was raised from death in order that we might be useful in the service of God.

2 Corinthians 11:2

I am jealous for you, just as God is; you are like a pure virgin whom I have promised in marriage to one man only, Christ himself.

Revelation 21:2

And I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared and ready, like a bride dressed to meet her husband.