Hosea 2:19-23
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And I will betroth you to me m forever. n I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.
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n I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And o you shall know the Lord.
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"And p in that day q I will answer, declares the Lord,
I will answer the heavens,
and they shall answer the earth,
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and the earth shall answer the grain, the wine, and the oil,
and they shall answer r Jezreel,
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and s I will sow her for myself in the land.
And t I u will have mercy on No Mercy,
and v I will say to Not My People, w 'You are my people';
and he shall say, 'You are my God.'"
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Cross References
Ezekiel 43:7
And he said to me, "Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the people of Israel forever. And the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoring and by the dead bodies of their kings at their high places.
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Hosea 2:7
She shall pursue her lovers but not overtake them, and she shall seek them but shall not find them. Then she shall say, 'I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better for me then than now.
Hosea 2:16
"And in that day, declares the Lord, you will call me 'My Husband,' and no longer will you call me 'My Baal.'
Jeremiah 3:14 - 15
Return, O faithless children, declares the Lord ; for I am your master; I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.
2 Corinthians 11:2
For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
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Hosea 2:19
And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.
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Jeremiah 31:34
And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
John 17:3
And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
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Hosea 2:16
"And in that day, declares the Lord, you will call me 'My Husband,' and no longer will you call me 'My Baal.'
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Zechariah 8:12
For there shall be a sowing of peace. The vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its produce, and the heavens shall give their dew. And I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.
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Hosea 1:4
And the Lord said to him, "Call his name Jezreel, for in just a little while I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.
Hosea 1:11
And the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint for themselves one head. And they shall go up from the land, for great shall be the day of Jezreel.
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Hosea 1:10
Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, "You are not my people," it shall be said to them, "Children of the living God.
Ezekiel 36:9 - 11
For behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown.
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Romans 9:25 - 26
As indeed he says in Hosea, "Those who were not my people I will call 'my people,' and her who was not beloved I will call 'beloved.'
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Hosea 1:6
She conceived again and bore a daughter. And the Lord said to him, "Call her name No Mercy, for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all.
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Hosea 1:9
And the Lord said, "Call his name Not My People, for you are not my people, and I am not your God.
1 Peter 2:10
Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
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Hosea 2:1
Say to your brothers, "You are my people," and to your sisters, "You have received mercy.
Zechariah 13:9
And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon my name, and I will answer them. I will say, 'They are my people'; and they will say, 'The Lord is my God.'
Leviticus 26:12
And I will walk among you and will be your God, and you shall be my people.
Jeremiah 31:33
But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord : I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
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