Hosea 7:4 - New International Version (Anglicised)

⁴ They are all adulterers, burning like an oven whose fire the baker need not stir from the kneading of the dough till it rises.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ They are all [idolatrous] adulterers; their passion smolders like heat of an oven when the baker ceases to stir the fire from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ They are all adulterers; they are as an oven heated by the baker; he ceaseth to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough, until it be leavened.

Common English Bible

⁴ They all act like adulterers; they are like a heated oven, whose baker doesn’t need to stoke the fire, from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ They are all adulterers; like an oven heating up before baking, the city rested a little before the leaven was mixed in, until the whole was leavened.

Hosea 7:4 Tagairtí Cros

Jeremiah 23:10

The land is full of adulterers; because of the curse the land lies parched and the pastures in the wilderness are withered. The prophets follow an evil course and use their power unjustly.

Jeremiah 9:1

Oh, that my head were a spring of water and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night for the slain of my people.

Jeremiah 9:2

Oh, that I had in the desert a lodging place for travellers, so that I might leave my people and go away from them; for they are all adulterers, a crowd of unfaithful people.

Hosea 4:10

‘They will eat but not have enough; they will engage in prostitution but not flourish, because they have deserted the Lord to give themselves

Hosea 4:12

My people consult a wooden idol, and a diviner’s rod speaks to them. A spirit of prostitution leads them astray; they are unfaithful to their God.

Hosea 4:2

There is only cursing, lying and murder, stealing and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

1 Corinthians 5:6

Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough?

James 4:4

You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.