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Hosea 14:8

Hosea 14:8 is verse 8 of Hosea chapter 14, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

O Ephraim, what have I to do anymore with idols? It is I who answer and watch over him. I am like a flourishing cypress; your fruit comes from Me.

That is, the northern kingdom of Israel

Or pine or juniper or fir

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King James Version

Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.

World English Bible

Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols? I answer, and will take care of him. I am like a green cypress tree; from me your fruit is found.”

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Hosea 14:6–9 · Berean Standard Bible

6 His shoots will sprout, and his splendor will be like the olive tree, his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.

7 They will return and dwell in his shade; they will grow grain and blossom like the vine. His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.

8 O Ephraim, what have I to do anymore with idols? It is I who answer and watch over him. I am like a flourishing cypress; your fruit comes from Me.

9 Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right, and the righteous walk in them but the rebellious stumble in them.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Hosea 14:2

Bring your confessions and return to the LORD. Say to Him: “Take away all our iniquity and receive us graciously, that we may present the fruit of our lips.

Hosea 14:3

Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’ to the work of our own hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”

Job 34:32

Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do it again.’

Acts 19:18

Many who had believed now came forward, confessing and disclosing their deeds.

Acts 19:19

And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books and burned them in front of everyone. When the value of the books was calculated, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas.

Acts 19:20

So the word of the Lord powerfully continued to spread and prevail.

1 Thessalonians 1:9

For they themselves report what kind of welcome you gave us, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God

1 Peter 1:14

As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.

1 Peter 1:15

But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do,

1 Peter 1:16

for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”

1 Peter 4:3

For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.

1 Peter 4:4

Because of this, they consider it strange of you not to plunge with them into the same flood of reckless indiscretion, and they heap abuse on you.

Job 33:27

Then he sings before men with these words: ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.

Jeremiah 31:18

I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.

Jeremiah 31:19

After I returned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh in grief. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’

Jeremiah 31:20

Is not Ephraim a precious son to Me, a delightful child? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore My heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him,” declares the LORD.

Luke 15:20

So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still in the distance, his father saw him and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him.

John 1:47

When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, He said of him, “Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit.”

John 1:48

“How do You know me?” Nathanael asked. Jesus replied, “Before Philip called you, I saw you under the fig tree.”

Isaiah 41:19

I will plant cedars in the wilderness, acacias, myrtles, and olive trees. I will set cypresses in the desert, elms and boxwood together,

Isaiah 55:13

Instead of the thornbush, a cypress will grow, and instead of the brier, a myrtle will spring up; they will make a name for the LORD, an everlasting sign, never to be destroyed.”

Isaiah 60:13

The glory of Lebanon will come to you— its cypress, elm, and boxwood together— to adorn the place of My sanctuary, and I will glorify the place of My feet.

John 1:16

From His fullness we have all received grace upon grace.

John 15:1

“I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.

John 15:2

He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful.

John 15:3

You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.

John 15:4

Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me.

John 15:5

I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing.

John 15:6

If anyone does not remain in Me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers. Such branches are gathered up, thrown into the fire, and burned.

John 15:7

If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

John 15:8

This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, proving yourselves to be My disciples.

Galatians 5:22

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Galatians 5:23

gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Ephesians 5:9

for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.

Philippians 1:11

filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Philippians 2:13

For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose.

Philippians 4:13

I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.

James 1:17

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.

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