Hosea 2:19

New Century Version

And I will make you my promised bride forever. I will be good and fair; I will show you my love and mercy.

Cross References

Psalm 85:10

Love and truth belong to God’s people; goodness and peace will be theirs.

Isaiah 1:27

By doing what is fair, Jerusalem will be free again. By doing what is right, her people who come back to the Lord will have freedom.

Isaiah 54:14

I will build you using fairness. You will be safe from those who would hurt you, so you will have nothing to fear. Nothing will come to make you afraid.

Isaiah 54:5

The God who made you is like your husband. His name is the Lord All-Powerful. The Holy One of Israel is the one who saves you. He is called the God of all the earth.

Isaiah 54:6

You were like a woman whose husband left her, and you were very sad. You were like a wife who married young and then her husband left her. But the Lord called you to be his,” says your God.

Jeremiah 4:2

If you say when you make a promise, ‘As surely as the Lord lives,’ and you can say it in a truthful, honest, and right way, then the nations will be blessed by him, and they will praise him for what he has done.”

Ezekiel 16:8

“ ‘Later when I passed by you and looked at you, I saw that you were old enough for love. So I spread my robe over you and covered your nakedness. I also made a promise to you and entered into an agreement with you so that you became mine, says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 39:29

I will not turn away from them anymore, because I will put my Spirit into the people of Israel, says the Lord God.”

Hosea 14:4

The Lord says, “I will forgive them for leaving me and will love them freely, because I am not angry with them anymore.

Joel 3:20

But there will always be people living in Judah, and people will live in Jerusalem from now on.

Zechariah 13:2

The Lord All-Powerful says, “At that time I will get rid of the names of the idols from the land; no one will remember them anymore. I will also remove the prophets and unclean spirits from the land.

John 3:29

The bride belongs only to the bridegroom. But the friend who helps the bridegroom stands by and listens to him. He is thrilled that he gets to hear the bridegroom’s voice. In the same way, I am really happy.

Romans 7:4

In the same way, my brothers and sisters, your old selves died, and you became free from the law through the body of Christ. This happened so that you might belong to someone else—the One who was raised from the dead—and so that we might be used in service to God.

2 Corinthians 11:2

I am jealous over you with a jealousy that comes from God. I promised to give you to Christ, as your only husband. I want to give you as his pure bride.

Revelation 21:2

And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. It was prepared like a bride dressed for her husband.