Hosea 13:1-14

New King James Version

Relentless Judgment on Israel

13 When Ephraim spoke, trembling,
He exalted himself in Israel;
But when he offended through Baal worship, he died.
²Now they sin more and more,
And have made for themselves molded images,
Idols of their silver, according to their skill;
All of it is the work of craftsmen.
They say of them,
“Let ^[a]the men who sacrifice ^[b]kiss the calves!”
³Therefore they shall be like the morning cloud
And like the early dew that passes away,
^(A)Like chaff blown off from a threshing floor
And like smoke from a chimney.

⁴“Yet ^(B)I am the Lord your God
Ever since the land of Egypt,
And you shall know no God but Me;
For ^(C)there is no savior besides Me.
⁵^(D)I ^[c]knew you in the wilderness,
^(E)In the land of ^[d]great drought.
⁶^(F)When they had pasture, they were filled;
They were filled and their heart was exalted;
Therefore they forgot Me.

⁷“So ^(G)I will be to them like a lion;
Like ^(H)a leopard by the road I will lurk;
⁸I will meet them ^(I)like a bear deprived of her cubs;
I will tear open their rib cage,
And there I will devour them like a lion.
The ^[e]wild beast shall tear them.

⁹“O Israel, ^[f]you are destroyed,
But ^[g]your help is from Me.
¹⁰^[h]I will be your King;
^(J)Where is any other,
That he may save you in all your cities?
And your judges to whom ^(K)you said,
‘Give me a king and princes’?
¹¹^(L)I gave you a king in My anger,
And took him away in My wrath.

¹²“The^(M) iniquity of Ephraim is bound up;
His sin is stored up.
¹³^(N)The sorrows of a woman in childbirth shall come upon him.
He is an unwise son,
For he should not stay long where children are born.

¹⁴“I will ransom them from the ^[i]power of ^[j]the grave;
I will redeem them from death.
^(O)O Death, ^[k]I will be your plagues!
O ^[l]Grave, ^[m]I will be your destruction!
^(P)Pity is hidden from My eyes.”

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Footnotes

Hosea 13:2 Or those who offer human sacrifice
Hosea 13:2 Worship with kisses
Hosea 13:5 Cared for you
Hosea 13:5 Lit. droughts
Hosea 13:8 Lit. beast of the field
Hosea 13:9 Lit. it or he destroyed you
Hosea 13:9 Lit. in your help
Hosea 13:10 LXX, Syr., Tg., Vg. Where is your king?
Hosea 13:14 Lit. hand
Hosea 13:14 Or Sheol
Hosea 13:14 LXX where is your punishment?
Hosea 13:14 Or Sheol
Hosea 13:14 LXX where is your sting?

John 14:1-14

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The Way, the Truth, and the Life

14 “Let ^(A)not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. ²In My Father’s house are many ^[a]mansions; if it were not so, ^[b]I would have told you. ^(B)I go to prepare a place for you. ³And if I go and prepare a place for you, ^(C)I will come again and receive you to Myself; that ^(D)where I am, there you may be also. ⁴And where I go you know, and the way you know.”

⁵^(E)Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?”

⁶Jesus said to him, “I am ^(F)the way, ^(G)the truth, and ^(H)the life. ^(I)No one comes to the Father ^(J)except through Me.

The Father Revealed

⁷^(K)“If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.”

⁸Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.”

⁹Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? ^(L)He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? ¹⁰Do you not believe that ^(M)I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you ^(N)I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works. ¹¹Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, ^(O)or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.

The Answered Prayer

¹²^(P)“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. ¹³^(Q)And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be ^(R)glorified in the Son. ¹⁴If you ^[c]ask anything in My name, I will do it.

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Footnotes

John 14:2 Lit. dwellings
John 14:2 NU would I have told you that I go or I would have told you; for I go
John 14:14 NU ask Me

Hosea 14

New King James Version

Israel Restored at Last

14 O Israel, ^(A)return to the Lord your God,
For you have stumbled because of your iniquity;
²Take words with you,
And return to the Lord.
Say to Him,
“Take away all iniquity;
Receive us graciously,
For we will offer the ^(B)sacrifices^[a] of our lips.
³Assyria shall ^(C)not save us,
^(D)We will not ride on horses,
Nor will we say anymore to the work of our hands, ‘You are our gods.’
^(E)For in You the fatherless finds mercy.”

⁴“I will heal their ^(F)backsliding,
I will ^(G)love them freely,
For My anger has turned away from him.
⁵I will be like the ^(H)dew to Israel;
He shall ^[b]grow like the lily,
And ^[c]lengthen his roots like Lebanon.
⁶His branches shall ^[d]spread;
^(I)His beauty shall be like an olive tree,
And ^(J)his fragrance like Lebanon.
⁷^(K)Those who dwell under his shadow shall return;
They shall be revived like grain,
And ^[e]grow like a vine.
Their ^[f]scent shall be like the wine of Lebanon.

⁸“Ephraim shall say, ‘What have I to do anymore with idols?’
I have heard and observed him.
I am like a green cypress tree;
^(L)Your fruit is found in Me.”

⁹Who is wise?
Let him understand these things.
Who is prudent?
Let him know them.
For ^(M)the ways of the Lord are right;
The righteous walk in them,
But transgressors stumble in them.

Footnotes

Hosea 14:2 Lit. bull calves; LXX fruit
Hosea 14:5 Lit. bud or sprout
Hosea 14:5 Lit. strike
Hosea 14:6 Lit. go
Hosea 14:7 Lit. bud or sprout
Hosea 14:7 Lit. remembrance

John 14:15-31

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Jesus Promises Another Helper

¹⁵^(A)“If you love Me, ^[a]keep My commandments. ¹⁶And I will pray the Father, and ^(B)He will give you another ^[b]Helper, that He may abide with you forever— ¹⁷^(C)the Spirit of truth, ^(D)whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you ^(E)and will be in you. ¹⁸^(F)I will not leave you orphans; ^(G)I will come to you.

Indwelling of the Father and the Son

¹⁹“A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but ^(H)you will see Me. ^(I)Because I live, you will live also. ²⁰At that day you will know that ^(J)I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. ²¹^(K)He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and ^[c]manifest Myself to him.”

²²^(L)Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?”

²³Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, ^(M)and We will come to him and make Our home with him. ²⁴He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and ^(N)the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me.

The Gift of His Peace

²⁵“These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. ²⁶But ^(O)the ^[d]Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will ^(P)send in My name, ^(Q)He will teach you all things, and bring to your ^(R)remembrance all things that I said to you. ²⁷^(S)Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. ²⁸You have heard Me ^(T)say to you, ‘I am going away and coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice because ^[e]I said, ^(U)‘I am going to the Father,’ for ^(V)My Father is greater than I.

²⁹“And ^(W)now I have told you before it comes, that when it does come to pass, you may believe. ³⁰I will no longer talk much with you, ^(X)for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has ^(Y)nothing in Me. ³¹But that the world may know that I love the Father, and ^(Z)as the Father gave Me commandment, so I do. Arise, let us go from here.