Hosea 10:12

Modern English Version

Sow to yourselves righteousness, reap mercy, break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek the Lord, until He comes and rains righteousness upon you.

Cross References

Psalm 105:4

Seek the Lord and His strength; seek His face continuously.

Psalm 72:6

May he descend like rain upon the mown grass, like showers that water the earth.

Proverbs 11:18

The wicked man earns deceptive wages, but he who sows righteousness reaps a true reward.

Proverbs 18:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

Ecclesiastes 11:6

In the morning sow your seed, and at evening do not let your hands rest; for you do not know which activity will find success, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.

Isaiah 30:23

Then He shall give you rain for the seed which you shall sow in the ground and bread of the increase of the earth. And it shall be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle shall feed in large pastures.

Isaiah 31:1

Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they do not look to the Holy One of Israel nor seek the Lord!

Isaiah 32:20

How blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out freely the ox and the donkey.

Isaiah 44:3

For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and floods on the dry ground; I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring;

Isaiah 45:8

Drip down, O heavens, from above, and let the clouds pour down righteousness; let the earth open up, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together. I, the Lord, have created it.

Isaiah 48:18

Oh, that you had listened to My commandments! Then your peace would have been as a river and your righteousness as the waves of the sea.

Isaiah 5:6

And I will lay it waste: It shall not be pruned or dug, but briers and thorns shall come up. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.

Isaiah 54:14

In righteousness you shall be established; you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear, and from terror, for it shall not come near you.

Isaiah 55:6

Seek the Lord while He may be found, call you upon Him while He is near.

Jeremiah 50:4

In those days and at that time, says the Lord, the Israelites will come, they and the Judahites together. They will go along weeping as they go, and seek the Lord their God.

Ezekiel 34:26

I will make them and the places all around My hill a blessing. And I will cause the showers to come down in their season. They shall be showers of blessing.

Hosea 12:6

But as for you, return to your God, hold fast to mercy and justice, and wait on your God continually.

Hosea 14:1

Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.

Hosea 6:3

Let us know, let us press on to know the Lord. His appearance is as sure as the dawn. He will come to us like the rain; like the spring rains He will water the earth.

Hosea 8:7

For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no head and will yield no flour. If it were to yield, foreigners would swallow it up.

Amos 5:15

Hate evil and love good, and establish justice at the gate. It may then be that the Lord God of Hosts will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

Amos 5:4

Indeed, thus says the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek Me and live!

Amos 5:6

Seek the Lord and live, or He will break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it will devour Bethel, with no one to quench it.

Amos 5:8

The One who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns the deep darkness into dawn and darkens the day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth— the Lord is His name,

Luke 13:24

“Strive to enter through the narrow gate. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.

Acts 2:18

Even on My menservants and maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days; and they shall prophesy.

2 Corinthians 9:10

Now He who supplies seed to the sower and supplies bread for your food will also multiply your seed sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness.

James 3:18

And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.