Hosea 4:14

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

“I cannot blame your daughters or your daughters-in-law for doing this, because your men go and have sex with the temple prostitutes and offer sacrifices with them. This is how foolish people destroy themselves.

Cross References

Hosea 4:1

People of Israel, listen to the Lord’s message. The Lord has something to say against those who live in this land: “The people in this land are not honest or loyal. They don’t really know God.

Hebrews 12:8

So, if you never receive the discipline that every child must have, you are not true children and don’t really belong to God.

Ephesians 4:18

They have no understanding, and they know nothing because they refuse to listen. So they cannot have the life that God gives.

1 Corinthians 6:16

The Scriptures say, “The two people will become one.” So you should know that anyone who is joined with a prostitute becomes one with her in body.

Romans 3:11

There is no one who understands. There is no one who is trying to be with God.

John 8:43

You don’t understand the things I say, because you cannot accept my teaching.

Hosea 14:9

A wise person understands these things, and a smart person should learn them. The Lord’s ways are right. Good people will live by them. Sinners will die by them.

Hosea 4:17

“Ephraim has joined his idols, so leave him alone.

Daniel 12:10

Many people will be made pure—they will make themselves clean. But evil people will continue to be evil. And those wicked people will not understand these things, but the wise people will understand them.

Isaiah 56:11

They are like hungry dogs. They are never satisfied. The shepherds don’t know what they are doing. Like their sheep, they have all wandered away. They are greedy. All they want is to satisfy themselves.

Isaiah 1:5

What good will it do to keep punishing you? You will continue to rebel. Your whole head and heart are already sick and aching.

Proverbs 28:5

The wicked don’t understand justice, but those who love the Lord understand it completely.

2 Kings 23:7

Then King Josiah broke down the houses of the male prostitutes who were in the Lord’s Temple. Women also used these houses and made little tent covers to honor the false goddess Asherah.

1 Kings 15:12

During Asa’s time there were men who served other gods by selling their bodies for sex. Asa forced them to leave the country. He took away the idols that his ancestors had made.

Deuteronomy 23:17

“An Israelite man or woman must never become a temple prostitute.

Hosea 5:4

The people of Israel have done many evil things, and these evil things keep them from coming back to their God. They are always thinking of ways to chase after other gods. They don’t know the Lord.

Amos 2:7

They pushed their faces into the ground and walked on them. They stopped listening to suffering people. Fathers and sons had sexual relations with the same woman. They ruined my holy name.

Amos 7:17

But the Lord says, ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the city. Your sons and daughters will be killed with swords. Other people will take your land and divide it among themselves, and you will die in a foreign country. The people of Israel will definitely be taken from this country as prisoners.’”

Isaiah 27:11

The vines will become dry, and the branches will break off. Women will use them for firewood. The people refuse to understand. So God, their Maker, will not comfort them or be kind to them.