Hosea 4:14

Good News Translation

Yet I will not punish them for this, because you yourselves go off with temple prostitutes, and together with them you offer pagan sacrifices. As the proverb says, ‘A people without sense will be ruined.’

Cross References

1 Kings 15:12

He expelled from the country all the male and female prostitutes serving at the pagan places of worship, and he removed all the idols his predecessors had made.

2 Kings 23:7

He destroyed the living quarters in the Temple occupied by the temple prostitutes. (It was there that women wove robes used in the worship of Asherah.)

Proverbs 28:5

Evil people do not know what justice is, but those who worship the Lord understand it well.

Isaiah 1:5

Why do you keep on rebelling? Do you want to be punished even more? Israel, your head is already covered with wounds, and your heart and mind are sick.

Isaiah 27:11

The branches of the trees are withered and broken, and women gather them for firewood. Because the people have understood nothing, God their Creator will not pity them or show them any mercy.

Isaiah 56:11

They are like greedy dogs that never get enough. These leaders have no understanding. They each do as they please and seek their own advantage.

Daniel 12:10

Many people will be purified. Those who are wicked will not understand but will go on being wicked; only those who are wise will understand.

Hosea 14:9

May those who are wise understand what is written here, and may they take it to heart. The Lord's ways are right, and righteous people live by following them, but sinners stumble and fall because they ignore them.

Hosea 4:1

The Lord has an accusation to bring against the people who live in this land. Listen, Israel, to what he says: “There is no faithfulness or love in the land, and the people do not acknowledge me as God.

Hosea 4:17

The people of Israel are under the spell of idols. Let them go their own way.

Hosea 5:4

The evil that the people have done keeps them from returning to their God. Idolatry has a powerful hold on them, and they do not acknowledge the Lord.

Amos 2:7

They trample down the weak and helpless and push the poor out of the way. A man and his father have intercourse with the same slave woman, and so profane my holy name.

Amos 7:17

And so, Amaziah, the Lord says to you, ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your children will be killed in war. Your land will be divided up and given to others, and you yourself will die in a heathen country. And the people of Israel will certainly be taken away from their own land into exile.’”

Numbers 25:3

Baal of Peor. So the Lord was angry with them

John 8:43

Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my message.

Romans 3:11

no one who is wise or who worships God.

1 Corinthians 6:16

Or perhaps you don't know that the man who joins his body to a prostitute becomes physically one with her? The scripture says quite plainly, “The two will become one body.”

Ephesians 4:18

and whose minds are in the dark. They have no part in the life that God gives, for they are completely ignorant and stubborn.

Deuteronomy 23:17

“No Israelite, man or woman, is to become a temple prostitute.

Hebrews 12:8

If you are not punished, as all his children are, it means you are not real children, but bastards.