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

New King James Version

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.