Hosea 4:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The sin of my people is like food to them; and their desire is for their wrongdoing.

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  • Mic 3:11 : 11 Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us.
  • Isa 56:11 : 11 Yes, the dogs are for ever looking for food; while these, the keepers of the sheep, are without wisdom: they have all gone after their pleasure, every one looking for profit; they are all the same.
  • Mal 1:10 : 10 If only there was one among you who would see that the doors were shut, so that you might not put a light to the fire on my altar for nothing! I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of armies, and I will not take an offering from your hands.
  • Rom 16:18 : 18 For such people are not servants of the Lord Christ, but of their stomachs; and by their smooth and well-said words the hearts of those who have no knowledge of evil are tricked.
  • Titus 1:11 : 11 By whom some families have been completely overturned; who take money for teaching things which are not right; these will have to be stopped.
  • Lev 7:6-7 : 6 Every male among the priests may have it as food in a holy place: it is most holy. 7 As is the sin-offering, so is the offering for wrongdoing; there is one law for them: the priest who makes the offering to take away sin, he is to have it.
  • 1 Sam 2:29 : 29 Why then are you looking with envy on my offerings of meat and of meal which were ordered by my word, honouring your sons before me, and making yourselves fat with all the best of the offerings of Israel, my people?
  • Ps 24:4 : 4 He who has clean hands and a true heart; whose desire has not gone out to foolish things, who has not taken a false oath.
  • Ps 25:1 : 1 <Of David.> To you, O Lord, my soul is lifted up.
  • Ezek 14:3 : 3 Son of man, these men have taken their false gods into their hearts and put before their faces the sin which is the cause of their fall: am I to give ear when they come to me for directions?
  • Ezek 14:7 : 7 When any one of the men of Israel, or of those from other lands who are living in Israel, who has become strange to me, and takes his false gods into his heart, and puts before his face the sin which is the cause of his fall, comes to the prophet to get directions from me; I the Lord will give him an answer by myself:
  • 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.

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