Hosea 4:14

New American Bible - revised edition

I will not punish your daughters for their prostitution, nor your daughters-in-law for their adultery, Because the men themselves consort with prostitutes, and with temple women they offer sacrifice! Thus a people without understanding comes to ruin.

Cross References

1 Kings 15:12

banishing the pagan priests from the land and removing all the idols his ancestors had made.

2 Kings 23:7

He tore down the apartments of the cult prostitutes in the house of the Lord, where the women wove garments for the Asherah.

Proverbs 28:5

The evil understand nothing of justice, but those who seek the Lord understand everything.

Isaiah 1:5

Why would you yet be struck, that you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, the whole heart faint.

Isaiah 27:11

When its boughs wither, they shall be broken off; and women shall come to kindle fires with them. For this is not an understanding people; therefore their maker shall not spare them; their creator shall not be gracious to them.

Isaiah 56:11

Yes, the dogs have a ravenous appetite; they never know satiety, Shepherds who have no understanding; all have turned their own way, each one covetous for gain:

Daniel 12:10

Many shall be refined, purified, and tested, but the wicked shall prove wicked; the wicked shall have no understanding, but those with insight shall.

Hosea 14:9

Ephraim! What more have I to do with idols? I have humbled him, but I will take note of him. I am like a verdant cypress tree. From me fruit will be found for you!

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of the Lord, Israelites, for the Lord has a dispute with the inhabitants of the land: There is no fidelity, no loyalty, no knowledge of God in the land.

Hosea 4:17

Ephraim is bound to idols, let him alone!

Hosea 5:4

Their deeds do not allow them to return to their God; For the spirit of prostitution is in them, and they do not know the Lord.

Amos 2:7

They trample the heads of the destitute into the dust of the earth, and force the lowly out of the way. Son and father sleep with the same girl, profaning my holy name.

Amos 7:17

Therefore thus says the Lord: Your wife shall become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters shall fall by the sword. Your land shall be parcelled out by measuring line, and you yourself shall die in an unclean land; and Israel shall be exiled from its land.”

Numbers 25:3

Israel thereby attached itself to the Baal of Peor, and the Lord’s anger flared up against Israel.

John 8:43

Why do you not understand what I am saying? Because you cannot bear to hear my word.

Romans 3:11

there is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks God.

1 Corinthians 6:16

[Or] do you not know that anyone who joins himself to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For “the two,” it says, “will become one flesh.”

Ephesians 4:18

darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God because of their ignorance, because of their hardness of heart,

Deuteronomy 23:17

Let them live among you in any place they choose, in any one of your communities that seems good to them. Do not oppress them.

Hebrews 12:8

If you are without discipline, in which all have shared, you are not sons but bastards.