Hosea 4:14

New Living Translation

But why should I punish them for their prostitution and adultery? For your men are doing the same thing, sinning with whores and shrine prostitutes. O foolish people! You refuse to understand, so you will be destroyed.

Cross References

1 Kings 15:12

He banished the male and female shrine prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the idols his ancestors had made.

2 Kings 23:7

He also tore down the living quarters of the male and female shrine prostitutes that were inside the Temple of the Lord, where the women wove coverings for the Asherah pole.

Proverbs 28:5

Evil people don’t understand justice, but those who follow the Lord understand completely.

Isaiah 1:5

Why do you continue to invite punishment? Must you rebel forever? Your head is injured, and your heart is sick.

Isaiah 27:11

The people are like the dead branches of a tree, broken off and used for kindling beneath the cooking pots. Israel is a foolish and stupid nation, for its people have turned away from God. Therefore, the one who made them will show them no pity or mercy.

Isaiah 56:11

Like greedy dogs, they are never satisfied. They are ignorant shepherds, all following their own path and intent on personal gain.

Daniel 12:10

Many will be purified, cleansed, and refined by these trials. But the wicked will continue in their wickedness, and none of them will understand. Only those who are wise will know what it means.

Hosea 14:9

Let those who are wise understand these things. Let those with discernment listen carefully. The paths of the Lord are true and right, and righteous people live by walking in them. But in those paths sinners stumble and fall.

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of the Lord, O people of Israel! The Lord has brought charges against you, saying: “There is no faithfulness, no kindness, no knowledge of God in your land.

Hosea 4:17

Leave Israel alone, because she is married to idolatry.

Hosea 5:4

Your deeds won’t let you return to your God. You are a prostitute through and through, and you do not know the Lord.

Amos 2:7

They trample helpless people in the dust and shove the oppressed out of the way. Both father and son sleep with the same woman, corrupting my holy name.

Amos 7:17

But this is what the Lord says: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in this city, and your sons and daughters will be killed. Your land will be divided up, and you yourself will die in a foreign land. And the people of Israel will certainly become captives in exile, far from their homeland.’”

Numbers 25:3

In this way, Israel joined in the worship of Baal of Peor, causing the Lord’s anger to blaze against his people.

John 8:43

Why can’t you understand what I am saying? It’s because you can’t even hear me!

Romans 3:11

No one is truly wise; no one is seeking God.

1 Corinthians 6:16

And don’t you realize that if a man joins himself to a prostitute, he becomes one body with her? For the Scriptures say, “The two are united into one.”

Ephesians 4:18

Their minds are full of darkness; they wander far from the life God gives because they have closed their minds and hardened their hearts against him.

Deuteronomy 23:17

“No Israelite, whether man or woman, may become a temple prostitute.

Hebrews 12:8

If God doesn’t discipline you as he does all of his children, it means that you are illegitimate and are not really his children at all.