Hosea 4:17
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone!”
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BSBPD
“Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone!”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Joined to idols <FI>is<Fi> Ephraim, let him alone.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Hosea 4:17 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 81:12So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
- Hosea 4:4But let no man contend; let no man offer reproof; for your people are like those who contend with a priest.
- Hosea 11:2But the more I called Israel, the farther they departed from Me. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to carved images.
- Hosea 12:1Ephraim chases the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; he multiplies lies and violence; he makes a covenant with Assyria and sends olive oil to Egypt.
- Hosea 13:2Now they sin more and more and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. People say of them, “They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves!”
- Matthew 15:14Disregard them! They are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”
- Revelation 22:11Let the unrighteous continue to be unrighteous, and the vile continue to be vile; let the righteous continue to practice righteousness, and the holy continue to be holy.”
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