Hosea 5:4

Authorized King James Version (1611)

They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms [is] in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.

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  • Hos 4:12 : 12 ¶ My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused [them] to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
  • 1 John 2:3-4 : 3 ¶ And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. 4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
  • John 3:19-20 : 19 ‹And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.› 20 ‹For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.›
  • John 8:55 : 55 ‹Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.›
  • John 16:3 : 3 ‹And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.›
  • 2 Thess 2:11-12 : 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
  • 1 Sam 2:12 : 12 Now the sons of Eli [were] sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD.
  • Ps 9:10 : 10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
  • Ps 36:1-4 : 1 ¶ To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David the servant of the LORD. The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, [that there is] no fear of God before his eyes. 2 For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful. 3 The words of his mouth [are] iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, [and] to do good. 4 He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way [that is] not good; he abhorreth not evil.
  • Ps 78:8 : 8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation [that] set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
  • Jer 9:6 : 6 Thine habitation [is] in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
  • Jer 9:24 : 24 But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I [am] the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these [things] I delight, saith the LORD.
  • Jer 22:15-16 : 15 Shalt thou reign, because thou closest [thyself] in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, [and] then [it was] well with him? 16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then [it was] well [with him: was] not this to know me? saith the LORD.
  • Jer 24:7 : 7 And I will give them an heart to know me, that I [am] the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.
  • Jer 50:38 : 38 A drought [is] upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it [is] the land of graven images, and they are mad upon [their] idols.
  • Hos 4:1 : 1 ¶ Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because [there is] no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
  • Hos 4:6 : 6 ¶ My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Hos 5:2-3
    2 verses
    84%

    2 And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I [have been] a rebuker of them all.

    3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, [and] Israel is defiled.

  • Hos 4:10-15
    6 verses
    80%

    10 For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.

    11 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

    12 ¶ My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused [them] to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.

    13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof [is] good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.

    14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people [that] doth not understand shall fall.

    15 Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, [yet] let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.

  • Hos 5:5-7
    3 verses
    80%

    5 And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.

    6 They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find [him]; he hath withdrawn himself from them.

    7 They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.

  • Hos 4:17-18
    2 verses
    78%

    17 Ephraim [is] joined to idols: let him alone.

    18 Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers [with] shame do love, Give ye.

  • Jer 5:7
    77%

    7 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by [them that are] no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.

  • Judg 2:17
    76%

    17 And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; [but] they did not so.

  • Hos 7:10
    76%

    10 And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.

  • Hos 9:9
    75%

    9 They have deeply corrupted [themselves], as in the days of Gibeah: [therefore] he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

  • Jer 14:10
    75%

    10 ¶ Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.

  • Ps 106:39
    75%

    39 Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.

  • Hos 2:4-5
    2 verses
    75%

    4 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they [be] the children of whoredoms.

    5 For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give [me] my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.

  • Jer 5:4
    75%

    4 Therefore I said, Surely these [are] poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, [nor] the judgment of their God.

  • Hos 6:10
    75%

    10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there [is] the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

  • Hos 7:2
    75%

    2 And they consider not in their hearts [that] I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.

  • Jer 3:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

    10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.

  • 1 Chr 5:25
    74%

    25 And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them.

  • Jer 44:5
    74%

    5 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.

  • Zeph 1:6
    74%

    6 And them that are turned back from the LORD; and [those] that have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him.

  • Jer 11:10
    74%

    10 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

  • Jer 9:6
    73%

    6 Thine habitation [is] in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.

  • Isa 3:9
    73%

    9 ¶ The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide [it] not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

  • Ezek 6:9
    73%

    9 And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

  • Hos 4:7
    73%

    7 As they were increased, so they sinned against me: [therefore] will I change their glory into shame.

  • Jer 9:3
    73%

    3 And they bend their tongues [like] their bow [for] lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.

  • Jer 9:13
    73%

    13 And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;

  • Ezek 23:30
    73%

    30 I will do these [things] unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, [and] because thou art polluted with their idols.

  • Jer 3:2
    73%

    2 Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

  • Jer 6:15
    73%

    15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time [that] I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.

  • Mal 2:11
    73%

    11 Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.

  • Isa 1:4
    73%

    4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

  • Jer 1:16
    73%

    16 And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.

  • Hos 10:2
    73%

    2 Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.

  • Ezek 16:30
    73%

    30 How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these [things], the work of an imperious whorish woman;

  • Jer 5:11
    73%

    11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.

  • Hos 7:14
    72%

    14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, [and] they rebel against me.

  • Hos 4:2
    72%

    2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

  • Jer 8:5
    72%

    5 Why [then] is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

  • Amos 2:4
    72%

    4 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:

  • Jer 3:21
    72%

    21 A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping [and] supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, [and] they have forgotten the LORD their God.