Hosea 14

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A Plea for Repentance

14 Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,
    for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
²Take with you words
    and return to the Lord;
say to him,
    “Take away all iniquity;
accept that which is good
    and we will render
    the fruit^[a] of our lips.
³Assyria shall not save us,
    we will not ride upon horses;
and we will say no more, ‘Our God,’
    to the work of our hands.
In thee the orphan finds mercy.”

Assurance of Forgiveness

⁴I will heal their faithlessness;
    I will love them freely,
    for my anger has turned from them.
⁵I will be as the dew to Israel;
    he shall blossom as the lily,
    he shall strike root as the poplar;^[b]
⁶his shoots shall spread out;
    his beauty shall be like the olive,
    and his fragrance like Lebanon.
⁷They shall return and dwell beneath my^[c] shadow,
    they shall flourish as a garden;^[d]
they shall blossom as the vine,
    their fragrance shall be like the wine of Lebanon.

⁸O E′phraim, what have I to do with idols?
It is I who answer and look after you.^[e]
I am like an evergreen cypress,
from me comes your fruit.

⁹Whoever is wise, let him understand these things;
    whoever is discerning, let him know them;
for the ways of the Lord are right,
    and the upright walk in them,
    but transgressors stumble in them.

Footnotes

Hosea 14:2 Gk Syr: Heb bulls
Hosea 14:5 Cn: Heb Lebanon
Hosea 14:7 Heb his
Hosea 14:7 Cn: Heb they shall grow grain
Hosea 14:8 Heb him

John 14:15-31

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The Promise of the Holy Spirit

¹⁵“If you love me, you will keep my commandments. ¹⁶And I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, to be with you for ever, ¹⁷even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him; you know him, for he dwells with you, and will be in you.

¹⁸“I will not leave you desolate; I will come to you. ¹⁹Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more, but you will see me; because I live, you will live also. ²⁰In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. ²¹He who has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me; and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.” ²²Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?” ²³Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. ²⁴He who does not love me does not keep my words; and the word which you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me.

²⁵“These things I have spoken to you, while I am still with you. ²⁶But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. ²⁷Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. ²⁸You heard me say to you, ‘I go away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I go to the Father; for the Father is greater than I. ²⁹And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place, you may believe. ³⁰I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me; ³¹but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go hence.

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