Hosea 7:4

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They are all untrue; they are like a burning oven; the bread-maker does not make up the fire from the time when the paste is mixed till it is leavened.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 9:2 : 2 If only I had in the waste land a night's resting-place for travellers, so that I might go away, far from my people! for they are all untrue, a band of false men.
  • Hos 4:2 : 2 There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.
  • Hos 4:12 : 12 My people get knowledge from their tree, and their rod gives them news; for a false spirit is the cause of their wandering, and they have been false to their God.
  • Hos 7:6-7 : 6 For they have made their hearts ready like an oven, while they are waiting secretly; their wrath is sleeping all night; in the morning it is burning like a flaming fire. 7 They are all heated like an oven, and they put an end to their judges; all their kings have been made low; not one among them makes prayer to me.
  • Jas 4:4 : 4 O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God.
  • Jer 5:7-8 : 7 How is it possible for you to have my forgiveness for this? your children have given me up, taking their oaths by those who are no gods: when I had given them food in full measure, they were false to their wives, taking their pleasure in the houses of loose women. 8 They were full of desire, like horses after a meal of grain: everyone went after his neighbour's wife.

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  • Hos 7:5-8
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    5On the day of our king, the rulers made him ill with the heat of wine; his hand was stretched out with the men of pride.

    6For they have made their hearts ready like an oven, while they are waiting secretly; their wrath is sleeping all night; in the morning it is burning like a flaming fire.

    7They are all heated like an oven, and they put an end to their judges; all their kings have been made low; not one among them makes prayer to me.

    8Ephraim is mixed with the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

  • Hos 7:2-3
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    2And they do not say to themselves that I keep in mind all their sin; now their evil acts come round them on every side; they are before my face.

    3In their sin they make a king for themselves, and rulers in their deceit.

  • Jer 6:28-29
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    72%

    28All of them are turned away, going about with false stories; they are brass and iron: they are all workers of deceit.

    29The blower is blowing strongly, the lead is burned away in the fire: they go on heating the metal to no purpose, for the evil-doers are not taken away.

  • Prov 4:16-17
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    16For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.

    17The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.

  • Ps 14:4
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    4Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord.

  • Jer 7:17-18
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    17Do you not see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

    18The children go for wood, the fathers get the fire burning, the women are working the paste to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and drink offerings are drained out to other gods, moving me to wrath.

  • Hos 4:10
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    10They will have food, but they will not be full; they will be false to me, but they will not be increased, because they no longer give thought to the Lord.

  • Ezek 16:32-33
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    32The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!

    33They give payment to all loose women: but you give rewards to your lovers, offering them payment so that they may come to you on every side for your cheap love.

  • Jer 6:13
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    13For from the least of them even to the greatest, everyone is given up to getting money; from the prophet even to the priest, everyone is working deceit.

  • Hos 6:7
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    7But like a man, they have gone against the agreement; there they were false to me.

  • Jer 8:10
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    10So I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who will take them for themselves: for everyone, from the least to the greatest, is given up to getting money; from the priest even to the prophet, everyone is false.

  • Gal 5:9
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    9A little leaven makes a change in all the mass.

  • Jer 5:7-8
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    7How is it possible for you to have my forgiveness for this? your children have given me up, taking their oaths by those who are no gods: when I had given them food in full measure, they were false to their wives, taking their pleasure in the houses of loose women.

    8They were full of desire, like horses after a meal of grain: everyone went after his neighbour's wife.

  • Hos 5:4
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    4Their works will not let them come back to their God, for a false spirit is in them and they have no knowledge of the Lord.

  • Mic 7:3
    68%

    3Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.

  • Nah 1:10
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    10For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.

  • Jer 23:14
    68%

    14And in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a shocking thing; they are untrue to their wives, walking in deceit, and they make strong the hands of evil-doers, so that a man may not be turned back from his evil-doing: they have all become like Sodom to me, and its people like Gomorrah.

  • Hos 4:18
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    18Their drink has become bitter; they are completely false; her rulers take pleasure in shame.

  • 2 Pet 2:14
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    14Having eyes full of evil desire, never having enough of sin; turning feeble souls out of the true way; they are children of cursing, whose hearts are well used to bitter envy;

  • Lev 7:9
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    9And every meal offering which is cooked in the oven and everything made in a cooking pot or on a flat plate, is for the priest by whom it is offered.

  • Hos 4:7-8
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    67%

    7Even while they were increasing in number they were sinning against me; I will let their glory be changed into shame.

    8The sin of my people is like food to them; and their desire is for their wrongdoing.

  • Jer 9:2-3
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    67%

    2If only I had in the waste land a night's resting-place for travellers, so that I might go away, far from my people! for they are all untrue, a band of false men.

    3Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.

  • Hos 5:2
    67%

    2They have gone deep in the evil ways of Shittim, but I am the judge of all.

  • 1 Cor 5:6
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    6This pride of yours is not good. Do you not see that a little leaven makes a change in all the mass?

  • Jer 23:10
    66%

    10For the land is full of men who are untrue to their wives; because of the curse the land is full of grief; the green fields of the waste land have become dry; and they are quick to do evil, their strength is for what is not right.

  • Hos 4:2
    66%

    2There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.

  • Prov 30:20
    66%

    20This is the way of a false wife; she takes food, and, cleaning her mouth, says, I have done no wrong.

  • Isa 3:9
    66%

    9Their respect for a man's position is a witness against them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.

  • Ps 5:9
    66%

    9For no faith may be put in their words; their inner part is nothing but evil; their throat is like an open place for the dead; smooth are the words of their tongues.

  • Jer 9:5
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    5Everyone will make sport of his neighbour with deceit, not saying what is true: their tongues have been trained to say false words; they are twisted, hating to come back.

  • Job 15:35
    66%

    35Evil has made them with child, and they give birth to trouble; and the fruit of their body is shame for themselves.

  • Ps 12:2
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    2Everyone says false words to his neighbour: their tongues are smooth in their talk, and their hearts are full of deceit.

  • Amos 2:7
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    7Crushing the head of the poor, and turning the steps of the gentle out of the way: and a man and his father go in to the same young woman, putting shame on my holy name:

  • Jer 11:15
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    15About Judah. What have you to do in my house? is it your thought that oaths and holy flesh will get you out of your trouble? will you make yourself safe in this way?

  • Zeph 3:4
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    4Her prophets are good-for-nothing persons, full of deceit: her priests have made the holy place unclean and have gone violently against the law.

  • Ezek 23:37
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    37For she has been false to me, and blood is on her hands, and with her images she has been untrue; and more than this, she made her sons, whom she had by me, go through the fire to them to be burned up.

  • Deut 32:5
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    5They have become false, they are not his children, the mark of sin is on them; they are an evil and hard-hearted generation.

  • Amos 5:7
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    7You who make the work of judging a bitter thing, crushing down righteousness to the earth;

  • Isa 57:3
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    3But come near, you sons of her who is wise in secret arts, the seed of her who is false to her husband, and of the loose woman.