Hosea 4:4
“Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; for your people are like those who bring charges against a priest.
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Hosea 4:4
“Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; for your people are like those who bring charges against a priest.
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Hosea 4:1
Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel, for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
Hosea 4:2
There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.
Hosea 4:3
Therefore the land will mourn, and everyone who dwells in it will waste away, with all living things in her, even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky; yes, the fish of the sea also die.
Hosea 4:4
“Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; for your people are like those who bring charges against a priest.
Hosea 4:5
You will stumble in the day, and the prophet will also stumble with you in the night; and I will destroy your mother.
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Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.
Hosea 4:7
As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.
Hosea 4:8
They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.
Hosea 4:9
It will be like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will repay them for their deeds.
Hosea 4:10
They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; because they have abandoned listening to Yahweh.
Isaiah 24:2
It will be as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest.
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Deuteronomy 17:12
The man who does presumptuously in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. You shall put away the evil from Israel.
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Hosea 4:15
“Though you, Israel, play the prostitute, yet don’t let Judah offend; and don’t come to Gilgal, neither go up to Beth Aven, nor swear, ‘As Yahweh lives.’
Hosea 4:16
For Israel has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Then how will Yahweh feed them like a lamb in a meadow?
Hosea 4:17
Ephraim is joined to idols. Leave him alone!
Hosea 4:18
Their drink has become sour. They play the prostitute continually. Her rulers dearly love their shameful way.
Hosea 4:19
The wind has wrapped her up in its wings; and they shall be disappointed because of their sacrifices.
Matthew 15:14
Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
Hosea 5:10
The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark. I will pour out my wrath on them like water.
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Hosea 4:11
Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
Hosea 4:12
My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God.
Hosea 4:13
They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and burn incense on the hills, under oaks, poplars, and terebinths, because its shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the prostitute, and your brides commit adultery.
Hosea 4:14
I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, nor your brides when they commit adultery; because the men consort with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; so the people without understanding will come to ruin.
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Deuteronomy 17:13
All the people shall hear and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
Numbers 15:30
“ ‘But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, blasphemes Yahweh. That soul shall be cut off from among his people.
Ezra 10:8
and that whoever didn’t come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his possessions should be forfeited, and he himself separated from the assembly of the captivity.
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Proverbs 9:7
One who corrects a mocker invites insult. One who reproves a wicked man invites abuse.
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Proverbs 23:9
Don’t speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
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Amos 5:13
Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.
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Numbers 16:1
Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took some men.
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Proverbs 9:8
Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise person, and he will love you.
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Amos 6:10
“When a man’s relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, ‘Is there yet any with you?’ And he says, ‘No;’ then he will say, ‘Hush! Indeed we must not mention Yahweh’s name.’
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Malachi 2:7
For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.
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Revelation 22:11
He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”
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