Hosea 6:5-7

Israel and Judah Are Unrepentant

5 Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets;
I have slain them j by the words of my mouth,
and my judgment goes forth as the light.
 6 For k I desire steadfast love 1 and not sacrifice,
l the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

7 But m like Adam they n transgressed the covenant;
o there they dealt faithlessly with me.

  1. Cross References
    Jeremiah 23:29
    Is not my word like fire, declares the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
    Hebrews 4:12
    For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
  2. Cross References
    Matthew 9:13
    Go and learn what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.' For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.
    Matthew 12:7
    And if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless.
    1 Samuel 15:22
    And Samuel said, "Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord ? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
  3. Cross References
    Hosea 2:20
    I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And you shall know the Lord.
  4. Cross References
    Genesis 3:11
    He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?
    Job 31:33
    If I have concealed my transgressions as others do by hiding my iniquity in my bosom.
    Romans 5:14
    Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.
  5. Cross References
    Hosea 8:1
    Set the trumpet to your lips! One like a vulture is over the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed my covenant and rebelled against my law.
    Deuteronomy 17:2
    If there is found among you, within any of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, in transgressing his covenant.
  6. Cross References
    Hosea 5:7
    They have dealt faithlessly with the Lord ; for they have borne alien children. Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.
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