Hosea 4:18

New Century Version

When they finish their drinking, they completely give themselves to being prostitutes; they love these disgraceful ways.

Cross References

Genesis 38:24

About three months later someone told Judah, “Tamar, your daughter-in-law, is guilty of acting like a prostitute, and now she is pregnant.” Then Judah said, “Bring her out and let her be burned to death.”

Psalm 47:9

The leaders of the nations meet with the people of the God of Abraham, because the leaders of the earth belong to God. He is supreme.

Exodus 23:8

“You must not accept money from a person who wants you to lie in court, because such money will not let you see what is right. Such money makes good people tell lies.

Jeremiah 2:21

But I planted you as a special vine, as a very good seed. How then did you turn into a wild vine that grows bad fruit?

Ezekiel 16:15

“ ‘But you trusted in your beauty. You became a prostitute, because you were so famous. You had sexual relations with anyone who passed by.

Hosea 4:10

“They will eat but not have enough; they will have sexual relations with the prostitutes, but they will not have children, because they have left the Lord to give themselves to

Hosea 4:2

Cursing, lying, killing, stealing and adultery are everywhere. One murder follows another.

Hosea 9:10

“When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the desert. Your ancestors were like finding the first figs on the fig tree. But when they came to Baal Peor, they began worshiping an idol, and they became as hateful as the thing they worshiped.

Amos 5:12

I know your many crimes, your terrible sins. You hurt people who do right, you take money to do wrong, and you keep the poor from getting justice in court.

Micah 3:11

Its judges take money to decide who wins in court. Its priests only teach for pay, and its prophets only look into the future when they get paid. But they lean on the Lord and say, “The Lord is here with us, so nothing bad will happen to us.”

Micah 7:3

With both hands they are doing evil. Rulers ask for money, and judges’ decisions are bought for a price. Rich people tell what they want, and they get it.

Deuteronomy 16:19

Do not judge unfairly or take sides. Do not let people pay you to make wrong decisions, because that kind of payment makes wise people seem blind, and it changes the words of good people.

1 Samuel 8:3

But Samuel’s sons did not live as he did. They tried to get money dishonestly, and they accepted money secretly to make wrong judgments.