Hosea 5:4

New International Version

“Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. A spirit of prostitution is in their heart; they do not acknowledge the Lord.

Cross References

Hosea 4:12

My people consult a wooden idol, and a diviner’s rod speaks to them. A spirit of prostitution leads them astray; they are unfaithful to their God.

John 16:3

They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me.

John 8:55

Though you do not know him, I know him. If I said I did not, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and obey his word.

Hosea 4:6

my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. “Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children.

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of the Lord, you Israelites, because the Lord has a charge to bring against you who live in the land: “There is no faithfulness, no love, no acknowledgment of God in the land.

Jeremiah 50:38

A drought on her waters! They will dry up. For it is a land of idols, idols that will go mad with terror.

Jeremiah 24:7

I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord. They will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will return to me with all their heart.

Jeremiah 9:24

but let the one who boasts boast about this: that they have the understanding to know me, that I am the Lord, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight,” declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:6

You live in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to acknowledge me,” declares the Lord.

Psalm 78:8

They would not be like their ancestors— a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose hearts were not loyal to God, whose spirits were not faithful to him.

Psalm 9:10

Those who know your name trust in you, for you, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek you.

1 Samuel 2:12

Eli’s sons were scoundrels; they had no regard for the Lord.

Hosea 4:14

“I will not punish your daughters when they turn to prostitution, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery, because the men themselves consort with harlots and sacrifice with shrine prostitutes— a people without understanding will come to ruin!

Hosea 7:11

“Ephraim is like a dove, easily deceived and senseless— now calling to Egypt, now turning to Assyria.

Hosea 13:13

Pains as of a woman in childbirth come to him, but he is a child without wisdom; when the time arrives, he doesn’t have the sense to come out of the womb.

Hosea 4:11

to prostitution; old wine and new wine take away their understanding.

Hosea 8:11

“Though Ephraim built many altars for sin offerings, these have become altars for sinning.