Bible Cross References
punish
Hosea 4:17
The people of Israel are under the spell of idols. Let them go their own way.
Isaiah 1:5
Why do you keep on rebelling? Do you want to be punished even more? Israel, your head is already covered with wounds, and your heart and mind are sick.
Hebrews 12:8
If you are not punished, as all his children are, it means you are not real children, but bastards.
for
1 Corinthians 6:16
Or perhaps you don't know that the man who joins his body to a prostitute becomes physically one with her? The scripture says quite plainly, "The two will become one body."
and they
1 Kings 14:23
They built places of worship for false gods and put up stone pillars and symbols of Asherah to worship on the hills and under shady trees.
1 Kings 14:24
Worst of all, there were men and women who served as prostitutes at those pagan places of worship. The people of Judah practiced all the shameful things done by the people whom the LORD had driven out of the land as the Israelites advanced into the country.
1 Kings 15:12
He expelled from the country all the male and female prostitutes serving at the pagan places of worship, and he removed all the idols his predecessors had made.
2 Kings 23:7
He destroyed the living quarters in the Temple occupied by the temple prostitutes. (It was there that women wove robes used in the worship of Asherah.)
therefore
Hosea 4:1
The LORD has an accusation to bring against the people who live in this land. Listen, Israel, to what he says: "There is no faithfulness or love in the land, and the people do not acknowledge me as God.
Hosea 4:5
Night and day you blunder on, and the prophets do no better than you. I am going to destroy Israel, your mother.
Hosea 4:6
My people are doomed because they do not acknowledge me. You priests have refused to acknowledge me and have rejected my teaching, and so I reject you and will not acknowledge your sons as my priests.
Hosea 14:9
May those who are wise understand what is written here, and may they take it to heart. The LORD's ways are right, and righteous people live by following them, but sinners stumble and fall because they ignore them.
Proverbs 28:5
Evil people do not know what justice is, but those who worship the LORD understand it well.
Isaiah 44:18-20
18
Such people are too stupid to know what they are doing. They close their eyes and their minds to the truth.
19
The maker of idols hasn't the wit or the sense to say, "Some of the wood I burned up. I baked some bread on the coals, and I roasted meat and ate it. And the rest of the wood I made into an idol. Here I am bowing down to a block of wood!"
20
It makes as much sense as eating ashes. His foolish ideas have so misled him that he is beyond help. He won't admit to himself that the idol he holds in his hand is not a god at all.
Isaiah 56:11
They are like greedy dogs that never get enough. These leaders have no understanding. They each do as they please and seek their own advantage.
Daniel 12:10
Many people will be purified. Those who are wicked will not understand but will go on being wicked; only those who are wise will understand.
John 8:43
Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my message.
Romans 3:11
no one who is wise or who worships God.
Ephesians 4:18
and whose minds are in the dark. They have no part in the life that God gives, for they are completely ignorant and stubborn.