Verse 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.

Referenced Verses

  • 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 4:5-6 : 5 Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother. 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.
  • Hos 4:17 : 17 Ephraim [is] joined to idols: let him alone.
  • Hos 14:9 : 9 Who [is] wise, and he shall understand these [things]? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD [are] right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
  • John 8:43 : 43 ‹Why do ye not understand my speech?› [even] ‹because ye cannot hear my word.›
  • Rom 3:11 : 11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
  • 1 Cor 6:16 : 16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
  • Eph 4:18 : 18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
  • Heb 12:8 : 8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
  • Deut 23:17 : 17 There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
  • 1 Kgs 14:23-24 : 23 For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree. 24 And there were also sodomites in the land: [and] they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
  • 1 Kgs 15:12 : 12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
  • 2 Kgs 23:7 : 7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that [were] by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
  • Prov 28:5 : 5 ¶ Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all [things].
  • Isa 1:5 : 5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
  • Isa 44:18-20 : 18 They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; [and] their hearts, that they cannot understand. 19 And none considereth in his heart, neither [is there] knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten [it]: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree? 20 He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, [Is there] not a lie in my right hand?
  • Isa 56:11 : 11 Yea, [they are] greedy dogs [which] can never have enough, and they [are] shepherds [that] cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
  • Dan 12:10 : 10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.