Hosea 10:12

New English Translation

Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap unfailing love. Break up the unplowed ground for yourselves, for it is time to seek the Lord, until he comes and showers deliverance on you.

Cross References

Psalm 105:4

Seek the Lord and the strength he gives! Seek his presence continually!

Psalm 72:6

He will descend like rain on the mown grass, like showers that drench the earth.

Proverbs 11:18

The wicked person earns deceitful wages, but the one who sows righteousness reaps a genuine reward.

Proverbs 18:21

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

Ecclesiastes 11:6

Sow your seed in the morning, and do not stop working until the evening; for you do not know which activity will succeed – whether this one or that one, or whether both will prosper equally.

Isaiah 30:23

He will water the seed you plant in the ground, and the ground will produce crops in abundance. At that time your cattle will graze in wide pastures.

Isaiah 31:1

Those who go down to Egypt for help are as good as dead, those who rely on war horses, and trust in Egypt’s many chariots and in their many, many horsemen. But they do not rely on the Holy One of Israel and do not seek help from the Lord.

Isaiah 32:20

you will be blessed, you who plant seed by all the banks of the streams, you who let your ox and donkey graze.

Isaiah 44:3

For I will pour water on the parched ground and cause streams to flow on the dry land. I will pour my spirit on your offspring and my blessing on your children.

Isaiah 45:8

O sky, rain down from above! Let the clouds send down showers of deliverance! Let the earth absorb it so salvation may grow, and deliverance may sprout up along with it. I, the Lord, create it.

Isaiah 48:18

If only you had obeyed my commandments, prosperity would have flowed to you like a river, deliverance would have come to you like the waves of the sea.

Isaiah 5:6

I will make it a wasteland; no one will prune its vines or hoe its ground, and thorns and briers will grow there. I will order the clouds not to drop any rain on it.

Isaiah 54:14

You will be reestablished when I vindicate you. You will not experience oppression; indeed, you will not be afraid. You will not be terrified, for nothing frightening will come near you.

Isaiah 55:6

Seek the Lord while he makes himself available; call to him while he is nearby!

Jeremiah 50:4

“When that time comes,” says the Lord, “the people of Israel and Judah will return to the land together. They will come back with tears of repentance as they seek the Lord their God.

Ezekiel 34:26

I will turn them and the regions around my hill into a blessing. I will make showers come down in their season; they will be showers that bring blessing.

Hosea 12:6

But you must return to your God, by maintaining love and justice, and by waiting for your God to return to you.

Hosea 14:1

Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for your sin has been your downfall!

Hosea 6:3

So let us acknowledge him! Let us seek to acknowledge the Lord! He will come to our rescue as certainly as the appearance of the dawn, as certainly as the winter rain comes, as certainly as the spring rain that waters the land.”

Hosea 8:7

They sow the wind, and so they will reap the whirlwind! The stalk does not have any standing grain; it will not produce any flour. Even if it were to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it all up.

Amos 5:15

Hate what is wrong, love what is right! Promote justice at the city gate! Maybe the Lord, the God who commands armies, will have mercy on those who are left from Joseph.

Amos 5:4

The Lord says this to the family of Israel: “Seek me so you can live!

Amos 5:6

Seek the Lord so you can live! Otherwise he will break out like fire against Joseph’s family; the fire will consume and no one will be able to quench it and save Bethel.

Amos 5:8

(But there is one who made the constellations Pleiades and Orion; he can turn the darkness into morning and daylight into night. He summons the water of the seas and pours it out on the earth’s surface. The Lord is his name!

Luke 13:24

“Exert every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.

Acts 2:18

Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.

2 Corinthians 9:10

Now God who provides seed for the sower and bread for food will provide and multiply your supply of seed and will cause the harvest of your righteousness to grow.

James 3:18

And the fruit that consists of righteousness is planted in peace among those who make peace.