Hosea 4:18

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

When their drinking is ended, they indulge in sexual orgies; they love lewdness more than their glory.

Cross References

Genesis 38:24

About three months later Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself; moreover, she is pregnant as a result of prostitution.” And Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burned.”

Psalm 47:9

The princes of the peoples gather as the people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God; he is highly exalted.

Exodus 23:8

You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds officials and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.

Jeremiah 2:21

Yet I planted you as a choice vine from the purest stock. How then did you turn degenerate and become a wild vine?

Ezekiel 16:15

But you trusted in your beauty and prostituted yourself because of your fame and lavished your prostitutions on any passer-by.

Hosea 4:10

They shall eat but not be satisfied; they shall prostitute themselves but not multiply, because they have forsaken the Lord to devote themselves to

Hosea 4:2

Swearing, lying, and murder, and stealing and adultery break out; bloodshed follows bloodshed.

Hosea 9:10

Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like the first fruit on the fig tree, in its first season, I saw your ancestors. But they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to a thing of shame and became detestable like the thing they loved.

Amos 5:12

For I know how many are your transgressions and how great are your sins— you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe and push aside the needy in the gate.

Micah 3:11

Its rulers give judgment for a bribe; its priests teach for a price; its prophets give oracles for money; yet they lean upon the Lord and say, “Surely the Lord is with us! No harm shall come upon us.”

Micah 7:3

Their hands are skilled to do evil; the official and the judge ask for a bribe, and the powerful dictate what they desire; thus they pervert justice.

Deuteronomy 16:19

You must not distort justice; you must not show partiality; and you must not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.

1 Samuel 8:3

Yet his sons did not follow in his ways but turned aside after gain; they took bribes and perverted justice.