Hosea 7:4
New King James Version
4 “They(A) are all adulterers.
Like an oven heated by a baker—
He ceases stirring the fire after kneading the dough,
Until it is leavened.
Jeremiah 9:2
New King James Version
2 Oh, that I had in the wilderness
A lodging place for travelers;
That I might leave my people,
And go from them!
For (A)they are all adulterers,
An assembly of treacherous men.
James 4:4
New King James Version
4 [a]Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that (A)friendship with the world is enmity with God? (B)Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
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- James 4:4 NU omits Adulterers and
Hosea 7:6-7
New King James Version
6 They prepare their heart like an oven,
While they lie in wait;
[a]Their baker sleeps all night;
In the morning it burns like a flaming fire.
7 They are all hot, like an oven,
And have devoured their judges;
All their kings have fallen.
(A)None among them calls upon Me.
Footnotes
- Hosea 7:6 So with MT, Vg.; Syr., Tg. Their anger; LXX Ephraim
Hosea 4:12
New King James Version
12 My people ask counsel from their (A)wooden idols,
And their [a]staff informs them.
For (B)the spirit of harlotry has caused them to stray,
And they have played the harlot against their God.
Footnotes
- Hosea 4:12 Diviner’s rod
Hosea 4:2
New King James Version
2 By swearing and lying,
Killing and stealing and committing adultery,
They break all restraint,
With bloodshed [a]upon bloodshed.
Footnotes
- Hosea 4:2 Lit. touching
Jeremiah 5:7-8
New King James Version
7 “How shall I pardon you for this?
Your children have forsaken Me
And (A)sworn by those (B)that are not gods.
(C)When I had fed them to the full,
Then they committed adultery
And assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.
8 (D)They were like well-fed lusty stallions;
Every one neighed after his neighbor’s wife.
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