Hosea 4:8
They feed on the sin of my people, And set their heart on their iniquity.
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- Lev 6:26 : 26 The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the Tent of Meeting.
- Mic 3:11 : 11 Her leaders judge for bribes, And her priests teach for a price, And her prophets of it tell forturnes for money: Yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, Isn't Yahweh in the midst of us? No disaster will come on us.
- Isa 56:11 : 11 Yes, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds who can't understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.
- Mal 1:10 : 10 "Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you," says Yahweh of hosts, "neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
- Rom 16:18 : 18 For those who are such don't serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.
- Titus 1:11 : 11 whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain's sake.
- Lev 7:6-7 : 6 Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy. 7 "'As is the sin offering, so is the trespass offering; there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with them shall have it.
- 1 Sam 2:29 : 29 Why kick you at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in [my] habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?
- Ps 24:4 : 4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart; Who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, And has not sworn deceitfully.
- Ps 25:1 : 1 > To you, Yahweh, do I lift up my soul.
- Ezek 14:3 : 3 Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?
- Ezek 14:7 : 7 For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel, who separates himself from me, and takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire for himself of me; I Yahweh will answer him by myself:
- 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
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7 As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.
- Hos 4:9-102 verses79%
9 It will be, like people, like priest; And I will punish them for their ways, And will repay them for their deeds.
10 They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; Because they have abandoned giving to Yahweh.
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4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And don't call on Yahweh?
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4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And don't call on God?
- Mic 3:2-32 verses77%
2 You who hate the good, And love the evil; Who tear off their skin, And their flesh from off their bones;
3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, And flay their skin from off them, And break their bones, And chop them in pieces, as for the pot, And as flesh within the caldron.
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9 The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don't hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.
- Hos 7:2-32 verses75%
2 They don't consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.
3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, And the princes with their lies.
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17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.
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13 As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it; But Yahweh doesn't accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, And punish their sins. They will return to Egypt.
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9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, As in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will punish them for their sins.
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12 For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, Let them be caught in their pride, For the curses and lies which they utter.
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18 First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.
- Ps 73:7-82 verses72%
7 Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.
8 They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.
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6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; They were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.
- Hos 7:13-142 verses72%
13 Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, Yet they have spoken lies against me.
14 They haven't cried to me with their heart, But they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.
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7 For they have devoured Jacob, And destroyed his homeland.
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4 Ah sinful nation, A people loaded with iniquity, A seed of evil-doers, Children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.
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26 For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.
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7 All who found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Yahweh, the habitation of righteousness, even Yahweh, the hope of their fathers.
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7 But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there.
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7 How can I pardon you? your children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes' houses.
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8 You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.
9 Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood; and in you they have eaten on the mountains: in the midst of you they have committed lewdness.
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18 Your way and your doings have procured these things to you; this is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.
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39 Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
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4 Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, And cause the poor of the land to fail,
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7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.
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18 Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, And wickedness as with cart rope;
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11 Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, They became for him altars for sinning.
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8 According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, And sow trouble, Reap the same.
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17 that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
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30 They didn't turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,
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21 But as for them whose heart walks after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their way on their own heads, says the Lord Yahweh.
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5 They break your people in pieces, Yahweh, And afflict your heritage.
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10 They build up Zion with blood, And Jerusalem with iniquity.
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8 They said in their heart, "We will crush them completely." They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.
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19 As for my sheep, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet.
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13 [It is] because of the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.
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11 They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
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31 They come to you as the people comes, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don't do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.
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16 and so cause them to bear the iniquity that brings guilt, when they eat their holy things: for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.'"
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6 For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands were laid on her.
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6 They plot injustice, saying, "We have made a perfect plan!" Surely man's mind and heart are cunning.
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10 All the sinners of my people will die by the sword, who say, 'Evil won't overtake nor meet us.'
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10 Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels; Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, For they have rebelled against you.