Hosea 10:12

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek the Lord, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.

Cross References

Psalm 105:4

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually.

Psalm 72:6

May he be like rain that falls on the mown grass, like showers that water the earth.

Proverbs 11:18

The wicked earn no real gain, but those who sow righteousness get a true reward.

Proverbs 18:21

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

Ecclesiastes 11:6

In the morning sow your seed, and at evening do not let your hands be idle; for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.

Isaiah 30:23

He will give rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and grain, the produce of the ground, which will be rich and plenteous. On that day your cattle will graze in broad pastures;

Isaiah 31:1

Alas for those who go down to Egypt for help and who rely on horses, who trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are very strong, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel or consult the Lord!

Isaiah 32:20

Happy will you be who sow beside every stream, who let the ox and the donkey range freely.

Isaiah 44:3

For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour my spirit upon your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring.

Isaiah 45:8

Shower, O heavens, from above, and let the skies rain down righteousness; let the earth open, that salvation may spring up, and let it cause righteousness to sprout up also; I the Lord have created it.

Isaiah 48:18

O that you had paid attention to my commandments! Then your prosperity would have been like a river, and your success like the waves of the sea;

Isaiah 5:6

I will make it a waste; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and it shall be overgrown with briers and thorns; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Isaiah 54:14

In righteousness you shall be established; you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near you.

Isaiah 55:6

Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near;

Jeremiah 50:4

In those days and in that time, says the Lord, the people of Israel shall come, they and the people of Judah together; they shall come weeping as they seek the Lord their God.

Ezekiel 34:26

I will make them and the region around my hill a blessing; and I will send down the showers in their season; they shall be showers of blessing.

Hosea 12:6

But as for you, return to your God, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God.

Hosea 14:1

Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.

Hosea 6:3

Let us know, let us press on to know the Lord; his appearing is as sure as the dawn; he will come to us like the showers, like the spring rains that water the earth.”

Hosea 8:7

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads, it shall yield no meal; if it were to yield, foreigners would devour it.

Amos 5:15

Hate evil and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

Amos 5:4

For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek me and live;

Amos 5:6

Seek the Lord and live, or he will break out against the house of Joseph like fire, and it will devour Bethel, with no one to quench it.

Amos 5:8

The one who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns deep darkness into the morning, and darkens the day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, the Lord is his name,

Luke 13:24

“Strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.

Acts 2:18

Even upon my slaves, both men and women, in those days I will pour out my Spirit; and they shall prophesy.

2 Corinthians 9:10

He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.

James 3:18

And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace for those who make peace.