Hosea 8:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Though I put my law in writing for him in ten thousand rules, they are to him as a strange thing.

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Referenced Verses

  • Hos 4:6 : 6 Destruction has overtaken my people because they have no knowledge; because you have given up knowledge, I will give you up, so that you will be no priest to me, because you have not kept in mind the law of your God, I will not keep your children in my memory.
  • Rom 3:1 : 1 How then is the Jew better off? or what profit is there in circumcision?
  • Rom 7:12 : 12 But the law is holy, and its orders are holy, upright, and good.
  • Deut 4:6-8 : 6 So keep these laws and do them; for so will your wisdom and good sense be clear in the eyes of the peoples, who hearing all these laws will say, Truly, this great nation is a wise and far-seeing people. 7 For what great nation has a god so near to them as the Lord our God is, whenever we are turned to him in prayer? 8 And what great nation has laws and decisions so right as all this law which I put before you today?
  • 2 Kgs 17:15-16 : 15 And they went against his rules, and the agreement which he made with their fathers, and his laws which he gave them; they gave themselves up to things without sense or value, and became foolish like the nations round them, of whom the Lord had said, Do not as they do. 16 And turning their backs on all the orders which the Lord had given them, they made for themselves images of metal, and the image of Asherah, worshipping all the stars of heaven and becoming servants to Baal.
  • Neh 9:13-14 : 13 And you came down on Mount Sinai, and your voice came to them from heaven, giving them right decisions and true laws, good rules and orders: 14 And you gave them word of your holy Sabbath, and gave them orders and rules and a law, by the hand of Moses your servant:
  • Neh 9:26 : 26 But they were hard-hearted, and went against your authority, turning their backs on your law, and putting to death your prophets, who gave witness against them with the purpose of turning them back again to you, and they did much to make you angry.
  • Ps 50:17 : 17 Seeing that you have no desire for my teaching, turning your back on my words.
  • Ps 119:18 : 18 Let my eyes be open to see the wonders of your law.
  • Ps 147:19-20 : 19 He makes his word clear to Jacob, teaching Israel his laws and his decisions. 20 He has not done these things for any other nation: and as for his laws, they have no knowledge of them. Let the Lord be praised.
  • Prov 22:20 : 20 Have I not put in writing for you thirty sayings, with wise suggestions and knowledge,
  • Isa 30:9 : 9 For they are an uncontrolled people, false-hearted, who will not give ear to the teaching of the Lord:
  • Jer 6:16-17 : 16 This is what the Lord has said: Take your place looking out on the ways; make search for the old roads, saying, Where is the good way? and go in it that you may have rest for your souls. But they said, We will not go in it. 17 And I put watchmen over you, saying, Give attention to the sound of the horn; but they said, We will not give attention.
  • Ezek 20:11 : 11 And I gave them my rules and made clear to them my orders, which, if a man keeps them, will be life to him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Hos 8:11
    72%

    11 Because Ephraim has been increasing altars for sin, altars have become a cause of sin to him.

  • Jer 9:13
    71%

    13 And the Lord said, Because they have given up my law which I put before them, giving no attention to my voice and not being guided by it;

  • Hos 8:13-14
    2 verses
    70%

    13 He gives the offerings of his lovers, and takes the flesh for food; but the Lord has no pleasure in them; now he will keep in mind their evil-doing and give them the punishment of their sins; they will go back to Egypt.

    14 For Israel has no memory of his Maker, and has put up the houses of kings; and Judah has made great the number of his walled towns. But I will send a fire on his towns and put an end to his great houses.

  • Heb 8:8-10
    3 verses
    69%

    8 For, protesting against them, he says, See, the days are coming when I will make a new agreement with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah;

    9 Not like the agreement which I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand, to be their guide out of the land of Egypt; for they did not keep the agreement with me, and I gave them up, says the Lord.

    10 For this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days: I will put my laws into their minds, writing them in their hearts: and I will be their God, and they will be my people:

  • Jer 8:8
    68%

    8 How is it that you say, We are wise and the law of the Lord is with us? But see, the false pen of the scribes has made it false.

  • Prov 22:20
    68%

    20 Have I not put in writing for you thirty sayings, with wise suggestions and knowledge,

  • Mal 2:8-9
    2 verses
    68%

    8 But you are turned out of the way; you have made the law hard for numbers of people; you have made the agreement of Levi of no value, says the Lord of armies.

    9 And so I have taken away your honour and made you low before all the people, even as you have not kept my ways, and have given no thought to me in using the law.

  • Heb 10:16
    68%

    16 This is the agreement which I will make with them after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws in their hearts, writing them in their minds; he said,

  • Ezek 22:8
    68%

    8 You have made little of my holy things, and have made my Sabbaths unclean.

  • Isa 30:8
    67%

    8 Now go, put it in writing before them on a board, and make a record of it in a book, so that it may be for the future, a witness for all time to come.

  • Jer 1:16
    67%

    16 And I will give my decision against them on account of all their evil-doing; because they have given me up, burning perfumes to other gods and worshipping the works of their hands.

  • Ezek 5:6
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    6 And she has gone against my orders by doing evil more than the nations, and against my rules more than the countries round her: for they have given up my orders, and as for my rules, they have not gone in the way of them.

  • Neh 9:29
    66%

    29 And gave witness against them so that you might make them come back again to your law: but their hearts were lifted up, and they gave no attention to your orders and went against your decisions (which, if a man keeps them, will be life to him), and turning their backs on you, made their necks stiff and did not give ear.

  • Josh 8:32
    66%

    32 And he made there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, writing it before the eyes of the children of Israel.

  • 1 Sam 8:8
    66%

    8 As they have done from the first, from the day when I took them out of Egypt till this day, turning away from me and worshipping other gods, so now they are acting in the same way to you.

  • Jer 44:10
    66%

    10 Even to this day their hearts are not broken, and they have no fear, and have not gone in the way of my law or of my rules which I gave to you and to your fathers.

  • Jer 31:33
    66%

    33 But this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my law in their inner parts, writing it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.

  • Jer 11:10
    66%

    10 They are turned back to the sins of their fathers, who would not give ear to my words; they have gone after other gods and become their servants: the people of Israel and the people of Judah have not kept the agreement which I made with their fathers.

  • Jer 5:30
    66%

    30 A thing of wonder and fear has come about in the land;

  • Ps 18:22
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    22 For all his decisions were before me, and I did not put away his laws from me.

  • Jer 6:19
    66%

    19 Give ear, O earth: see, I will make evil come on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not given attention to my words, and they would have nothing to do with my law.

  • Hos 7:2
    66%

    2 And 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.

  • Deut 33:10
    66%

    10 They will be the teachers of your decisions to Jacob and of your law to Israel: the burning of perfumes before you will be their right, and the ordering of burned offerings on your altar.

  • Dan 9:11
    65%

    11 And all Israel have been sinners against your law, turning away so as not to give ear to your voice: and the curse has been let loose on us, and the oath recorded in the law of Moses, the servant of God, for we have done evil against him.

  • Jer 14:10
    65%

    10 This is what the Lord has said about this people: Even so they have been glad to go from the right way; they have not kept their feet from wandering, so the Lord has no pleasure in them; now he will keep their wrongdoing in mind and send punishment for their sins.

  • Hos 4:7
    65%

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

  • Ps 78:10
    65%

    10 They were not ruled by God's word, and they would not go in the way of his law;

  • Ezek 20:16
    65%

    16 Because they were turned away from my orders, and were not guided by my rules, and had no respect for my Sabbaths: for their hearts went after their images.

  • Amos 2:4
    65%

    4 These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Judah, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given up the law of the Lord, and have not kept his rules; and their false ways, in which their fathers went, have made them go out of the right way.

  • Jer 11:8
    65%

    8 But they gave no attention and did not give ear, but they went on, every man in the pride of his evil heart: so I sent on them all the curses in this agreement, which I gave them orders to keep, but they did not.

  • Ezek 5:9
    65%

    9 And I will do in you what I have not done and will not do again, because of all your disgusting ways.

  • Mal 4:4
    65%

    4 Keep in mind the law of Moses, my servant, which I gave him in Horeb for all Israel, even the rules and the decisions.

  • Jer 34:18
    65%

    18 And I will give the men who have gone against my agreement and have not given effect to the words of the agreement which they made before me, when the ox was cut in two and they went between the parts of it,

  • Hos 12:8
    65%

    8 As for Canaan, the scales of deceit are in his hands; he takes pleasure in twisted ways.

  • Hos 10:10
    65%

    10 I will come and give them punishment; and the peoples will come together against them when I give them the reward of their two sins.

  • Hos 11:8
    65%

    8 How may I give you up, O Ephraim? how may I be your saviour, O Israel? how may I make you like Admah? how may I do to you as I did to Zeboim? My heart is turned in me, it is soft with pity.

  • Ezek 20:24
    65%

    24 Because they had not done my orders, but had been turned away from my rules, and had not given respect to my Sabbaths, and their eyes were turned to the images of their fathers.

  • Exod 34:27
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    27 And the Lord said to Moses, Put all these words in writing; for on them is based the agreement which I will make with you.

  • Heb 10:8
    65%

    8 After saying, You had no desire for offerings, for burned offerings or offerings for sin (which are made by the law) and you had no pleasure in them,

  • Isa 8:1
    65%

    1 And the Lord said to me, Take a great writing-board, and on it put down in common letters, Maher-shalal-hash-baz;

  • Ezek 20:13
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    13 But the children of Israel would not be controlled by me in the waste land: they were not guided by my rules, and they were turned away from my orders, which, if a man does them, will be life to him; and they had no respect for my Sabbaths: then I said that I would let loose my passion on them in the waste land, and put an end to them.

  • Jer 2:8
    65%

    8 The priests did not say, Where is the Lord? and those who were expert in the law had no knowledge of me: and the rulers did evil against me, and the prophets became prophets of the Baal, going after things without value.

  • Heb 8:12
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    12 And I will have mercy on their evil-doing, and I will not keep their sins in mind.

  • Deut 4:13
    65%

    13 And he gave you his agreement with you, the ten rules which you were to keep, which he put in writing on the two stones of the law.

  • Deut 27:8
    65%

    8 And put on the stones all the words of this law, writing them very clearly.

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
    65%

    12 And they made themselves servants of disgusting things, though the Lord had said, You are not to do this.