Hosea 4:18
Their drink has become bitter; they are completely false; her rulers take pleasure in shame.
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Hosea 4:18
Their drink has become bitter; they are completely false; her rulers take pleasure in shame.
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Hosea 4:13
They make offerings on the tops of mountains, burning perfumes in high places, under trees of every sort, because their shade is good: and so your daughters are given up to loose ways and your brides are false to their husbands.
Hosea 4:14
I will not give punishment to your daughters or your brides for their evil behaviour; for they make themselves separate with loose women, and make offerings with those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: the people who have no wisdom will be sent away.
Hosea 4:15
Do not you, O Israel, come into error; do not you, O Judah, come to Gilgal, or go up to Beth-aven, or take an oath, By the living Lord.
Hosea 4:16
For Israel is uncontrolled, like a cow which may not be controlled; now will the Lord give them food like a lamb in a wide place.
Hosea 4:17
Ephraim is joined to false gods; let him be.
Hosea 4:18
Their drink has become bitter; they are completely false; her rulers take pleasure in shame.
Hosea 4:19
They are folded in the skirts of the wind; they will be shamed because of their offerings.
Hosea 4:1
Give ear to the word of the Lord, O children of Israel; for the Lord has a cause against the people of this land, because there is no good faith in it, and no mercy and no knowledge of God in the land.
Hosea 4:2
There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.
Hosea 4:4
Let no man go to law or make protests, for your people are like those who go to law with a priest.
Hosea 4:6
Destruction has overtaken my people because they have no knowledge; because you have given up knowledge, I will give you up, so that you will be no priest to me, because you have not kept in mind the law of your God, I will not keep your children in my memory.
Hosea 4:10
They will have food, but they will not be full; they will be false to me, but they will not be increased, because they no longer give thought to the Lord.
Hosea 4:11
Loose ways and new wine take away wisdom.
2 Chronicles 21:13
But have gone in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the people of Jerusalem go after false gods, as the family of Ahab did: and because you have put to death your father's sons, your brothers, who were better than yourself:
Isaiah 28:1
Ho! crown of pride of those who are given up to wine in Ephraim, and the dead flower of his glory which is on the head of those who are overcome by strong drink!
Hosea 9:15
All their evil-doing is in Gilgal; there I had hate for them; because of their evil-doing I will send them out of my house; they will no longer be dear to me; all their rulers are uncontrolled.
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Psalms 47:9
The rulers of the peoples have come together, with the people of the God of Abraham; because the powers of the earth are God's: he is lifted up on high.
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Micah 7:3
Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.
Isaiah 1:23
Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.
Deuteronomy 16:19
You are not to be moved in your judging by a man's position, you are not to take rewards; for rewards make the eyes of the wise man blind, and the decisions of the upright false.
Micah 3:11
Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us.
Exodus 23:8
Take no rewards in a cause: for rewards make blind those who have eyes to see, and make the decisions of the upright false.
Ezekiel 22:12
In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord.
Amos 5:12
For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place.
1 Samuel 8:3
And his sons did not go in his ways, but moved by the love of money took rewards, and were not upright in judging.
1 Samuel 12:3
Here I am: give witness against me before the Lord and before the man on whom he has put the holy oil: whose ox or ass have I taken? to whom have I been untrue? who has been crushed down by me? from whose hand have I taken a price for the blinding of my eyes? I will give it all back to you.
1 Samuel 12:4
And they said, You have never been untrue to us or cruel to us; you have taken nothing from any man.
Proverbs 30:15
The night-spirit has two daughters, Give, give. There are three things which are never full, even four which never say, Enough:
Jeremiah 22:17
But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.
Proverbs 15:27
He whose desires are fixed on profit is a cause of trouble to his family; but he who has no desire for offerings will have life.
Proverbs 17:23
A sinner takes an offering out of his robe, to get a decision for himself in a cause.
Isaiah 33:15
He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to death, and whose eyes are shut against evil;
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Isaiah 1:22
Your silver is no longer true metal, your wine is mixed with water.
Ezekiel 22:27
Her rulers in her are like wolves violently taking their food; putting men to death and causing the destruction of souls, so that they may get their profit.
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Hosea 5:15
I will go back to my place till they are made waste; in their trouble they will go after me early and will make search for me.
Hosea 5:4
Their works will not let them come back to their God, for a false spirit is in them and they have no knowledge of the Lord.
Hosea 6:6
Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings.
Hosea 6:7
But like a man, they have gone against the agreement; there they were false to me.
Hosea 6:8
Gilead is a town of evil-doers, marked with blood.
Hosea 6:9
And like a band of thieves waiting for a man, so are the priests watching secretly the way of those going quickly to Shechem, for they are working with an evil design.
Hosea 6:10
In Israel I have seen a very evil thing; there false ways are seen in Ephraim, Israel is unclean;
Hosea 7:2
And they do not say to themselves that I keep in mind all their sin; now their evil acts come round them on every side; they are before my face.
Hosea 7:3
In their sin they make a king for themselves, and rulers in their deceit.
Hosea 7:4
They are all untrue; they are like a burning oven; the bread-maker does not make up the fire from the time when the paste is mixed till it is leavened.
Hosea 13:16
Samaria will be made waste, for she has gone against her God: they will be cut down by the sword, their little children will be broken on the rocks, their women who are with child will be cut open.
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Isaiah 15:5
My heart is crying out for Moab; her people go in flight to Zoar, and to Eglath-shelishiyah: for they go up with weeping by the slope of Luhith; on the way to Horonaim they send up a cry of destruction.
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Ezekiel 13:19
And you have put me to shame among my people for a little barley and some bits of bread, sending death on souls for whom there is no cause of death, and keeping those souls living who have no right to life, by the false words you say to my people who give ear to what is false.
Romans 16:18
For such people are not servants of the Lord Christ, but of their stomachs; and by their smooth and well-said words the hearts of those who have no knowledge of evil are tricked.
2 Peter 2:3
And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.
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