Hosea 4:11

New International Reader's Version

with prostitutes. They drink old wine and fresh wine. Their drinking has destroyed their ability to understand.

Cross References

Proverbs 20:1

Wine causes you to make fun of others, and beer causes you to start fights. Anyone who is led astray by them is not wise.

Proverbs 31:4

Lemuel, it isn’t good for kings to drink wine. It isn’t good for rulers to long for beer.

Proverbs 6:32

A man who commits adultery has no sense. Anyone who does it destroys himself.

Ecclesiastes 7:7

When a wise person takes wealth by force, they become foolish. It is sinful to take money from people who want special favors.

Isaiah 28:7

Israel’s leaders are drunk from wine. They can’t walk straight. They are drunk from beer. They are unsteady on their feet. Priests and prophets drink beer. They can’t walk straight. They are mixed up from drinking too much wine. They drink too much beer. They are unsteady on their feet. The prophets see visions but don’t really understand them. The priests aren’t able to make good decisions.

Isaiah 5:12

They have harps and lyres at their banquets. They have tambourines, flutes and wine. But they don’t have any concern for the mighty acts of the Lord. They don’t have any respect for what his power has done.

Jeremiah 23:13

“Among the prophets of Samaria I saw something I can’t stand. They were prophesying in the name of Baal. They were leading my people Israel astray.

Hosea 4:12

My people ask a wooden statue of a god for advice. They get answers from a stick of wood. They are as unfaithful as prostitutes. They are not faithful to their God.

Hosea 5:4

“They can’t return to me because they have done so many evil things. In their hearts they long to act like prostitutes. They do not recognize me as the Lord.

Hosea 7:11

The Lord says, “The people of Ephraim are like a dove. They are easily tricked. They do not have any sense at all. First they call out to Egypt for help. Then they turn to Assyria.

Leviticus 10:9

“You and your sons will go into the tent of meeting. When you do, you must not drink any kind of wine. If you do, you will die. This is a law that will last for all time to come.

Luke 21:34

“Be careful. If you aren’t, your hearts will be loaded down with wasteful living, drunkenness and the worries of life. Then the day the Son of Man returns will close on you like a trap. It will happen suddenly.

1 Samuel 25:36

Abigail went back to Nabal. He was having a dinner party in the house. It was the kind of dinner a king would have. He had been drinking too much wine. He was very drunk. So she didn’t tell him anything at all until sunrise.