Hosea 1:2

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

The beginning of the speaking to the Lord in Hosea. And the Lord said to Hosea, Go thou, take to thee a wife of fornications, and make to thee sons of fornications, for the land doing fornication shall do fornication, going away from the Lord.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 21:13

but thou hast gone by the way of the kings of Israel, and thou hast made Judah and the dwellers of Jerusalem to do fornication, and thou hast pur-sued [or following] the fornication of the house of Ahab; furthermore and thou hast slain thy brethren in the house of thy father, that is, princes of the house of thy father, which were better than thou;

Psalm 106:39

and was defouled in the works of them; and they did fornication in their findings.

Psalm 73:27

For lo! they that draw away far themselves from thee shall perish; thou hast lost all men that do forni-cation from thee.

Jeremiah 2:13

For why my people hath done twain [or two] evils; they have forsaken me, the well of quick water, and have digged to them cisterns, that were destroyed, that may not hold waters.

Jeremiah 2:20

From the world thou hast broken my yoke, thou hast broken my bonds, and saidest, I shall not serve. For thou whore didest whoredom in each high little hill, and under each tree full of boughs.

Jeremiah 2:23

How sayest thou, I am not defouled, I went not after Baalim? See thy ways in the great valley, know thou what thou hast done; a swift runner ordaining his ways.

Jeremiah 3:9

And by lightness of her fornication she defouled the earth, and did adultery with a stone, and with a tree.

Ezekiel 6:9

And your delivered men shall have mind on me among heathen men, to which they be led prisoners; for I have all-broken their heart doing fornication, and going away from me, and their eyes doing fornication after their idols. And they shall displease themselves on the evils, which they did in all their abominations.

Hosea 2:7

And she shall follow her lovers, and shall not overtake them, and she shall seek them, and shall not find [them]; and she shall say, I shall go, and turn again to my former husband, for it was well to me then more than now.

Hosea 3:1

And the Lord said to me, Yet go thou, and love a woman loved of a friend, and a woman adulteress, as the Lord loveth the sons of Israel; and they behold to alien gods, and love the dregs of grapes.

Hosea 5:3

I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me; for now Ephraim did fornication, Israel is defouled.

Mark 1:1

The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

Deuteronomy 31:16

And the Lord said to Moses, Lo! thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, and this people shall rise up, and it shall do fornication, or idolatry, going after alien gods in the land, into which it shall enter, that it dwell therein; there it shall forsake me, and shall make void the bond of peace, which I covenanted with it.

2 Peter 2:14

and have eyes full of adultery, and unceasing trespass, deceiving unsteadfast souls, and have the heart exercised to covetousness; the sons of cursing,

Revelation 17:5

And a name written in the forehead of her, Mystery, Babylon the great, mother of fornications, and of abominations of the earth.