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But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there.
Hosea 6:7 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
  • BSB But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; there they were unfaithful to Me.
  • ESV But like Adam they transgressed the covenant; there they dealt faithlessly with me.
  • NKJV “But like men they transgressed the covenant; There they dealt treacherously with Me.
  • NASB But like Adam they have violated the covenant; There they have dealt treacherously with Me.
  • NLT But like Adam, you broke my covenant and betrayed my trust.

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Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 15

  • Gen 3:11God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
  • Hos 5:7They are unfaithful to Yahweh; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.
  • Hos 8:1“Put the trumpet to your lips! Something like an eagle is over Yahweh’s house, because they have broken my covenant, and rebelled against my law.
  • Job 31:33if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,
  • Jer 9:6Your habitation is in the middle of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.
  • 2 Kgs 17:15They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom Yahweh had commanded them that they should not do like them.
  • Gen 3:6When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.
  • Ezek 16:59–61“‘For thus says the Lord Yahweh: “I will also deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
  • Jer 5:11For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me,” says Yahweh.
  • Isa 24:5The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.
  • Jer 3:7I said after she had done all these things, ‘She will return to me;’ but she didn’t return; and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
  • Jer 31:32not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband to them,” says Yahweh.
  • Isa 48:8Yes, you didn’t hear; yes, you didn’t know; yes, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.
  • Isa 24:16From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs. Glory to the righteous! But I said, “I pine away! I pine away! woe is me!” The treacherous have dealt treacherously. Yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.
  • Heb 8:9not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they didn’t continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them,” says the Lord.

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Christ at the center

God's relentless love for an unfaithful bride dramatizes the gospel: 'Out of Egypt I called my son' is fulfilled in Jesus, who redeems an adulterous people at his own cost.

How Hosea 6:7 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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