Hosea 4:8

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They feed on the sins of my people; they are greedy for their iniquity.

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  • Mic 3:11 : 11 Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for silver. Yet they lean on the LORD, saying, 'Is not the LORD among us? No disaster will come upon us.'
  • Isa 56:11 : 11 Yet the dogs are greedy; they never have enough. They are shepherds who lack understanding; all of them turn to their own way, each seeking his own gain from every quarter.
  • Mal 1:10 : 10 Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors so you would not light useless fires on my altar! I am not pleased with you, says the LORD of Hosts, and I will not accept any offerings from your hands.
  • Rom 16:18 : 18 For such people are not serving our Lord Christ but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery, they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.
  • Titus 1:11 : 11 They must be silenced because they are upsetting whole households by teaching things they should not for the sake of dishonest gain.
  • Lev 7:6-7 : 6 Every male among the priests may eat it. It must be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy. 7 The guilt offering is the same as the sin offering; there is one law for both. The priest who makes atonement with it shall have it.
  • 1 Sam 2:29 : 29 Why do you scorn My sacrifice and offering that I commanded for My dwelling? Why do you honor your sons more than Me by fattening yourselves on the best of all the offerings of My people Israel?
  • Ps 24:4 : 4 The one with clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up their soul to vanity or swear deceitfully.
  • Ps 25:1 : 1 To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul.
  • Ezek 14:3 : 3 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts and placed the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces. Should I really let myself be consulted by them?
  • Ezek 14:7 : 7 For if any man from the house of Israel or any foreigner living in Israel separates himself from me, sets up idols in his heart, places the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and then comes to the prophet to inquire of me, I, the LORD, will answer him myself.
  • 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 In their greed, they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.

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