Hosea 4:14

Bishops' Bible (1568)

I wyll not punishe your daughters for beyng defiled, and your spouses that became whoores: seeing the fathers them selues haue medled with harlots, and sacrificed with whoores: but the people that wyll not vnderstande, must be punished.

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  • Hos 4:1 : 1 Heare the worde of the Lorde O ye chyldren of Israel, for the Lord hath a controuersie with the inhabitauntes of the lande: for there is no trueth, there is no mercy, there is no knowledge of God in the lande.
  • Hos 4:5-6 : 5 Therefore shalt thou fall in the day tyme, and the prophete with thee in the night, and I wyll bryng thy mother to destruction. 6 My people perishe for lacke of knowledge: because thou hast refused knowledge, therfore wyll I refuse thee also, so that thou shalt no more be my priest: and forsomuche as thou hast forgotten the lawe of thy God, I wyll also forget thy chyldren.
  • Hos 4:17 : 17 Ephraim is become partaker of idols, let hym alone.
  • Hos 14:9 : 9 Who so is wise, shall vnderstande these thinges, and he that is right instruct wyll regarde them: for the wayes of the Lorde are righteous, such as be godly wyll walke in them: as for the wicked, they shall stumble therin.
  • John 8:43 : 43 Why do ye not knowe my speache? euen because ye cannot heare my word.
  • Rom 3:11 : 11 There is none that vnderstandeth, there is none that seketh after God.
  • 1 Cor 6:16 : 16 Know ye not, that he whiche coupleth him selfe with an harlot, is one body? For two (sayth he) shalbe one fleshe.
  • Eph 4:18 : 18 Darkened in cogitation, being alienated from the lyfe of God by the ignoraunce that is in them, by the blindnesse of their heartes.
  • Heb 12:8 : 8 But yf ye be without chastisment, wherof all are partakers, then are ye bastardes, and not sonnes.
  • Deut 23:17 : 17 There shalbe no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor whore keper of the sonnes of Israel.
  • 1 Kgs 14:23-24 : 23 For they also made them hie places, images, and groues on euery hie hill, and vnder euery thicke tree. 24 And there was a stewes of male children in the lande, and they did according to all the abhominations of the nations which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.
  • 1 Kgs 15:12 : 12 And he toke away the male stewes out of the lande, and put away all the abhominable idols that his fathers had made.
  • 2 Kgs 23:7 : 7 And he brake downe the celles of the male stewes that were by the house of the Lorde, where the women woue hanginges for the idol groue.
  • Prov 28:5 : 5 Wicked men vnderstande not iudgement: but they that seeke the Lord, vnderstande all thinges.
  • Isa 1:5 : 5 Why shoulde ye be stricken any more? for ye are euer fallyng away: euery head is diseased, and euery heart heauy:
  • Isa 44:18-20 : 18 Yet men neither consider nor vnderstande, because their eyes be stopped that they can not see, and their heartes that they can not perceaue. 19 They ponder not in their mindes, for they haue neither knowledge nor vnderstanding to thinke thus: I haue brent one peece in the fire, I haue baked bread with the coales thereof, I haue rosted fleshe withall, and eaten it: and I wyll nowe of the residue make an abhominable idoll, and fall downe before a rotten peece of wood. 20 Thus doth he but lose his labour, and his heart whiche is deceaued doth turne hym aside, so that none of them can haue a free conscience to thinke, Do not I erre?
  • Isa 56:11 : 11 They are shamelesse dogges that be neuer satisfied: The sheepheardes also in like maner haue no vnderstandyng, but euery man turneth his owne way, euery one after his owne couetousnesse with all his power.
  • Dan 12:10 : 10 Many shalbe purified, made white, and tryed: but the wicked shall do wickedly, and none of the wicked shal haue vnderstanding, but the wyse shall vnderstande.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Hos 4:10-13
    4 verses
    83%

    10They shal eate and not haue inough, they haue vsed whordome, but shall not prosper, they haue forsaken the Lorde, and not regarded him.

    11Whordome, wine, and newe wine, take the heart away.

    12My people aske counsell at their stockes, and their staffe teacheth them: for the spirite of fornication hath caused them to go astray, and they haue committed fornication against their God.

    13They make sacrifices vpon the tops of the mountaines, and burne their incense vpon the hilles, yea vnder the okes, poplars, and elmes, for there are good shadowes: therfore your daughters are become harlots, and your spouses haue broken their wedlocke.

  • Hos 4:15
    78%

    15Though thou Israel play the harlot, yet let not Iuda sinne, come not ye vnto Gilgal, neither go ye to Bethauen, neither sweare ye, The Lorde liueth.

  • Hos 5:3-4
    2 verses
    77%

    3I knowe Ephraim well inough, and Israel is not hid fro me: for nowe O Ephraim thou art become an harlot, and Israel is defiled.

    4They wyll not geue their myndes to turne vnto their God: for the spirite of fornication is in the middest of them, and they haue not knowen the Lorde.

  • Jer 5:7
    76%

    7Shoulde I then for all this haue mercie vpon thee? Thy children haue forsaken me, and sworne by them that are no gods: and albeit that I fed them to the full, yet they fall to adulterie, and haunt harlottes houses.

  • Lev 19:29
    75%

    29Thou shalt not make thy daughter common, that thou wouldest cause her to be an whore, lest the lande also fall to whoredome, and become ful of wickednesse.

  • Exod 34:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    15Lest if thou make any agreement with the inhabitours of the lande, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice vnto their gods: they call thee, and thou eate of theyr sacrifice.

    16And thou take of their daughters vnto thy sonnes, and their daughters go a whoryng after their gods, and make thy sonnes go a whoryng after their gods also.

  • Hos 2:2-5
    4 verses
    74%

    2As for your mother, ye shall chyde with her and reproue her, for she is not my wyfe, neither am I her husbande: let her therefore put away her whordome from her face, and her adulterie from her brestes:

    3Lest I strip her naked, and set her euen as she came into the worlde, and make her as a wyldernesse, and as a drye lande, and slay her for thyrste.

    4And I wyll haue no pitie vpon her chyldren: for they be the children of fornication.

    5Their mother hath played the harlot, and she that bare them is come to confusion: for she sayde, I wyll go after my louers, that geue me my bread and my water, my wooll and flaxe, my oyle and my drinke.

  • Jer 3:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8Namely, that after I had well seene the adulterie of the shrinckyng harlot Israel, I put her away, and gaue her a byll of deuorcement: For all this, her vnfaithfull sister Iuda was not ashamed, but went backe and played the whore.

    9Yea and the wantonnesse of her whoredome hath defyled the whole lande: For she hath comitted fornication with stones and stockes.

  • Jer 2:20
    72%

    20I haue euer broken thy yoke of olde, and burst thy bondes, yet sayest thou: I wyll no more transgresse: but like an harlot thou runnest about vpon all hye hylles, and among all greene trees.

  • Ezek 16:41
    72%

    41They shall burne vp thy houses with fire, and punishe thee in the sight of many women: thus wyll I make thee ceasse from playing the harlot, so that thou shalt geue out no more rewardes.

  • Ezek 23:30
    72%

    30I wyll do these thynges vnto thee, because thou hast gone a whoryng after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.

  • Jer 3:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1Commonly when a man putteth away his wyfe, and she goeth from hym & maryeth with another, then the question is: shoulde he resort vnto her any more after that? (Is not that lande then defiled and vncleane?) But as for thee thou hast played the harlot with many louers, yet turne agayne to me, saith the Lorde.

    2Lift vp thine eyes to the hygh places, and loke where thou hast not ben defiled: Thou hast wayted for them in the streetes, and as a murtherer in the wildernesse, through thy whoredome and shamefull blasphemies is the lande defiled.

  • Ezek 16:35-36
    2 verses
    71%

    35Therefore heare the worde of the Lorde, O thou harlot.

    36Thus saith the Lorde God, Because thou hast powred out thy brasse, and discouered thy filthynes thorowe thy fornications with thy louers, and with all the idols of thyne abhominations, and in the blood of thy chyldren whom thou hast geuen them:

  • Nah 3:4
    71%

    4Because of the manyfolde fornication of the beautifull harlot, ful of charmes, that selles nations by the meanes of her whordome, and the people through her charminges.

  • Ezek 16:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16Thou didst take thy garmentes, and deckt thy hye places with diuers colours, and played the harlot thervpon, they come not, and it shall not be.

    17The goodly iewels whiche I gaue thee of mine owne golde and siluer, hast thou taken and made thee mens images therof, and committed whordome with them.

  • Amos 7:17
    71%

    17Therfore thus sayth the Lorde, Thy wyfe shalbe an harlot in the citie, and thy sonnes and thy daughters shall fall by the sworde, and thy land shalbe deuided by line, and thou shalt die in a polluted land, and Israel shall surely go into captiuitie foorth of his lande.

  • Ezek 22:11
    71%

    11Euery man hath dealt shamefully with his neighbours wife, and abhominably defiled his daughter in lawe, in thee hath euery man forced his owne sister, euen his fathers daughter.

  • Ezek 23:48
    70%

    48Thus wyll I cause wickednesse to ceasse out of the lande, that all women may be taught, not to do after your wickednesse.

  • Jer 44:9
    70%

    9Or haue ye nowe forgotten the wickednesse of your forefathers, the wickednesse of the kynges of Iuda and their wiues, the wickednesse that ye your selues and your wiues haue done in the lande of Iuda, and in the streetes of Hierusalem?

  • Ezek 16:32
    70%

    32But as a wyfe that breaketh wedlocke, and taketh other in steede of her husbande.

  • Jer 11:15
    70%

    15What part hath my beloued in my house, seing he hath worked abhomination, seruing many gods? The holy fleshe offeringes in the temple are gone from thee O Iuda and thou when thou hast done euyll, makest thy boast of it.

  • Hos 4:18
    70%

    18Their drunkennesse stinketh, they haue committed whordome: their rulers loue to say with shame, Bryng ye.

  • Ezek 23:43-44
    2 verses
    69%

    43And I sayd vnto her that was worne in her adulteries, Nowe shall her fornications come to an ende, and she also.

    44And they went in to her as they go vnto a common harlot: euen so went they I say to Aholah and Aholibah, those wicked women.

  • Mal 2:11
    69%

    11Iuda hath offended, & abhomination is committed in Israel and in Hierusalem? for Iuda hath defiled the holynesse of the Lorde which he loued, and hath maried the daughter of a straunge God.

  • Lev 19:20
    69%

    20Whosoeuer lieth and medleth with a woman that is a bondmayde betrothed to a husbande, but not redeemed, nor freedome geue her, she shalbe scourged, but they shall not dye, because she was not free.

  • Ezek 16:38
    69%

    38Moreouer, I wyll iudge thee as a breaker of wedlocke and a murtherer, and recompence thee thyne owne blood in wrath and gelousie.

  • Ezek 16:20
    69%

    20Thou hast taken thyne owne sonnes and daughters whom thou hast begotten vnto me, and these hast thou offred vp vnto them to be deuoured: is this but a small whordome of thyne?

  • Deut 23:17
    69%

    17There shalbe no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor whore keper of the sonnes of Israel.

  • Jer 13:27
    69%

    27Thy adulteries, thy neyghinges, thy shamefull whoredome on the hylles in the fieldes, and thy abhominations haue I seene: Wo be vnto thee (O Hierusalem) wylt thou neuer be clensed any more? Or when shall that be?

  • Amos 2:4
    69%

    4Thus sayth the Lorde, For three wickednesses of Iuda, and for foure I will not spare hym: because they haue cast away the lawe of the Lord, and haue not kept his ordinaunces, and their lies caused them to erre, after the which their fathers walked.

  • Ezek 16:43
    69%

    43Seing thou remembrest not the dayes of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these thinges: beholde therfore, I wyll bryng thyne owne wayes vpon thy head saith the Lord God, so that thou shalt not commit any more mischiefe vpon all thyne abhominations.

  • Ezek 16:30
    69%

    30Howe weake is thyne heart saith the Lorde God, seeing thou doest all these workes of a presumptuous whorishe woman?

  • Ezek 16:26
    69%

    26Thou hast committed fornication with the Egyptians, thy neighbours whiche were great in fleshe, and thus hast thou increased thyne whordome to anger me.

  • Num 25:1
    69%

    1And Israel abode in Sittim, and the people began to commit whoredome with the daughters of Moab.

  • Ezek 16:28
    69%

    28Thou hast plaied the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast insatiable: yea thou hast I say with them played the harlot, and yet hadst thou not inough.

  • Hos 6:10
    69%

    10Horrible thinges haue I seene in the house of Israel: there is the fornication of Ephraim, and Israel is defiled.

  • Ezek 23:37
    69%

    37namely that they haue broken their wedlocke, and blood is in their handes: and with their idols haue they comitted adulterie, and haue also caused their sonnes whom they bare vnto me, to passe by the fire to be their meate.