Hosea 12:6

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“But you must return to your God, maintaining love and justice, and always waiting on your God.”

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BSBPD

“But you must return to your God, maintaining love and justice, and always waiting on your God.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep kindness and justice, and wait for thy God continually.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And thou, through thy God, dost turn, Kindness and judgment keep thou, And wait on thy God continually.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Hosea 12:6 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 49:18I await Your salvation, O LORD.
  2. Exodus 3:15God also told Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.
  3. Psalms 27:14Wait patiently for the LORD; be strong and courageous. Wait patiently for the LORD!
  4. Psalms 37:7Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for Him; do not fret when men prosper in their ways, when they carry out wicked schemes.
  5. Psalms 123:2As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes are on the LORD our God until He shows us mercy.
  6. Psalms 130:5I wait for the LORD; my soul does wait, and in His word I put my hope.
  7. Proverbs 1:23If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you.
  8. Proverbs 21:3To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.
  9. Isaiah 1:16Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!
  10. Isaiah 8:17I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in Him.
  11. Isaiah 30:18Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore He rises to show you compassion, for the LORD is a just God. Blessed are all who wait for Him.
  12. Isaiah 31:6Return to the One against whom you have so blatantly rebelled, O children of Israel.
  13. Isaiah 40:31But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.
  14. Isaiah 55:6Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
  15. Isaiah 58:6Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke?
  16. Jeremiah 3:14“Return, O faithless children,” declares the LORD, “for I am your master, and I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to Zion.
  17. Jeremiah 22:15Does it make you a king to excel in cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He administered justice and righteousness, and so it went well with him.
  18. Lamentations 3:25The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.
  19. Lamentations 3:39Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins?
  20. Hosea 4:1Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God in the land!
  21. Hosea 6:1Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.
  22. Hosea 10:12Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.
  23. Hosea 14:1Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.
  24. Joel 2:13So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.

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