Hosea 10:12

New Living Translation

I said, ‘Plant the good seeds of righteousness, and you will harvest a crop of love. Plow up the hard ground of your hearts, for now is the time to seek the Lord, that he may come and shower righteousness upon you.’

Cross References

Psalm 105:4

Search for the Lord and for his strength; continually seek him.

Psalm 72:6

May the king’s rule be refreshing like spring rain on freshly cut grass, like the showers that water the earth.

Proverbs 11:18

Evil people get rich for the moment, but the reward of the godly will last.

Proverbs 18:21

The tongue can bring death or life; those who love to talk will reap the consequences.

Ecclesiastes 11:6

Plant your seed in the morning and keep busy all afternoon, for you don’t know if profit will come from one activity or another—or maybe both.

Isaiah 30:23

Then the Lord will bless you with rain at planting time. There will be wonderful harvests and plenty of pastureland for your livestock.

Isaiah 31:1

What sorrow awaits those who look to Egypt for help, trusting their horses, chariots, and charioteers and depending on the strength of human armies instead of looking to the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 32:20

the Lord will greatly bless his people. Wherever they plant seed, bountiful crops will spring up. Their cattle and donkeys will graze freely.

Isaiah 44:3

For I will pour out water to quench your thirst and to irrigate your parched fields. And I will pour out my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your children.

Isaiah 45:8

“Open up, O heavens, and pour out your righteousness. Let the earth open wide so salvation and righteousness can sprout up together. I, the Lord, created them.

Isaiah 48:18

Oh, that you had listened to my commands! Then you would have had peace flowing like a gentle river and righteousness rolling over you like waves in the sea.

Isaiah 5:6

I will make it a wild place where the vines are not pruned and the ground is not hoed, a place overgrown with briers and thorns. I will command the clouds to drop no rain on it.

Isaiah 54:14

You will be secure under a government that is just and fair. Your enemies will stay far away. You will live in peace, and terror will not come near.

Isaiah 55:6

Seek the Lord while you can find him. Call on him now while he is near.

Jeremiah 50:4

“In those coming days,” says the Lord, “the people of Israel will return home together with the people of Judah. They will come weeping and seeking the Lord their God.

Ezekiel 34:26

I will bless my people and their homes around my holy hill. And in the proper season I will send the showers they need. There will be showers of blessing.

Hosea 12:6

So now, come back to your God. Act with love and justice, and always depend on him.

Hosea 14:1

Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for your sins have brought you down.

Hosea 6:3

Oh, that we might know the Lord! Let us press on to know him. He will respond to us as surely as the arrival of dawn or the coming of rains in early spring.”

Hosea 8:7

“They have planted the wind and will harvest the whirlwind. The stalks of grain wither and produce nothing to eat. And even if there is any grain, foreigners will eat it.

Amos 5:15

Hate evil and love what is good; turn your courts into true halls of justice. Perhaps even yet the Lord God of Heaven’s Armies will have mercy on the remnant of his people.

Amos 5:4

Now this is what the Lord says to the family of Israel: “Come back to me and live!

Amos 5:6

Come back to the Lord and live! Otherwise, he will roar through Israel like a fire, devouring you completely. Your gods in Bethel won’t be able to quench the flames.

Amos 5:8

It is the Lord who created the stars, the Pleiades and Orion. He turns darkness into morning and day into night. He draws up water from the oceans and pours it down as rain on the land. The Lord is his name!

Luke 13:24

“Work hard to enter the narrow door to God’s Kingdom, for many will try to enter but will fail.

Acts 2:18

In those days I will pour out my Spirit even on my servants—men and women alike— and they will prophesy.

2 Corinthians 9:10

For God is the one who provides seed for the farmer and then bread to eat. In the same way, he will provide and increase your resources and then produce a great harvest of generosity in you.

James 3:18

And those who are peacemakers will plant seeds of peace and reap a harvest of righteousness.