Hosea 4:14

Modern English Version

I will not punish your daughters when they play the whore, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men separate themselves with whores, and they sacrifice with cult prostitutes. A people without understanding will come to ruin.

Cross References

1 Kings 15:12

He expelled the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

2 Kings 23:7

He tore down the houses of the male cult prostitutes that were in the house of the Lord, where the women were weaving hangings for the Asherah.

Proverbs 28:5

Evil men do not understand justice, But those who seek the Lord understand it fully.

Isaiah 1:5

Why should you be beaten again, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

Isaiah 27:11

When its boughs are withered, they are broken off; the women come and make a fire with them, for they are not a people of understanding; therefore, their maker will not have mercy on them, and their Creator will show them no grace.

Isaiah 56:11

They are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds who cannot understand; they all turn to their own way, every one for his gain, from his territory.

Daniel 12:10

Many shall be purified and made white and tried. But the wicked shall do wickedly, and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand.

Hosea 14:9

Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever prudent, let him know them. For the ways of the Lord are right, and the just will walk in them; but the transgressors stumble in them.

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of the Lord, O Israelites, for the Lord has a dispute with the inhabitants of the land: There is no truth or mercy, and no knowledge of God in the land.

Hosea 4:17

Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone.

Hosea 5:4

Their deeds do not allow them to return to their God; for a spirit of harlotry is in their midst, and they do not know the Lord.

Amos 2:7

They trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth, and push the oppressed out of the way. A man and his father go in to the same woman, profaning My holy name.

Amos 7:17

“Therefore thus says the Lord: ‘Your wife will be a prostitute in the city, your sons and daughters will fall by the sword, and your land will be divided by measuring line; you yourself will die in an unclean land; and Israel will surely go into exile away from its land.’ ”

Numbers 25:3

Israel joined himself to the Baal of Peor, and the anger of the Lord was inflamed against Israel.

John 8:43

Why do you not understand My speaking? Because you cannot bear to hear My word.

Romans 3:11

there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks after God.

1 Corinthians 6:16

What? Do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For “the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.”

Ephesians 4:18

having their understanding darkened, excluded from the life of God through the ignorance that is within them, due to the hardness of their hearts.

Deuteronomy 23:17

There must never be a cult prostitute among the daughters of Israel, nor a cult prostitute among the sons of Israel.

Hebrews 12:8

If you are without discipline, of which everyone has partaken, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.