Hosea 14:9

The book closes by calling the wise to understand that God's ways are right; the righteous walk in them while the rebellious stumble. It is a final summons to heed the whole message of Hosea.

Cross-references · 38

• Prov 10:29The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
• Ps 107:43Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh.
• John 8:47He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.”
• Dan 12:10Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but those who are wise shall understand.
• Prov 1:5–6that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:
• Ps 19:7–8Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s testimony is sure, making wise the simple.
• Jer 9:12Who is wise enough to understand this? Who is he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?
• Isa 26:7The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.
• Deut 32:4The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.
• Zeph 3:5Yahweh, within her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn’t fail, but the unjust know no shame.
• Ps 119:128Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way. PEY
• 1 Pet 2:7–8For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient, “The stone which the builders rejected, has become the chief cornerstone,”
• John 18:37Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”
• Gen 18:25Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”
• 2 Cor 2:15–16For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved, and in those who perish;
• Ps 119:75Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
• Luke 7:23Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”
• Ps 111:7–8The works of his hands are truth and justice. All his precepts are sure.
• Isa 8:13–15Yahweh of Armies is who you must respect as holy. He is the one you must fear. He is the one you must dread.
• Matt 13:11–12He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.
• 2 Th 2:9–12even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
• Isa 1:28But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.
• John 3:19–20This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
• Matt 11:19The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”
• Rom 9:32–33Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;
• Ps 84:5Blessed are those whose strength is in you; who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage.
• John 9:39Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”
• Ezek 18:25“Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not equal.’ Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal? Aren’t your ways unequal?
• Prov 4:18But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.
• Ps 84:7They go from strength to strength. Everyone of them appears before God in Zion.
• Job 34:10–12“Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
• Luke 2:34and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.
• Luke 4:28–29They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things.
• Job 34:18–19Who says to a king, ‘Vile!’ or to nobles, ‘Wicked!’?
• Rom 7:12Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
• John 15:24If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father.
• Ezek 33:17–20Yet the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
• Job 17:9Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.

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