Hosea 14:9

A Promise Of Restoration

⁸ As for Ephraim, what has he to do with false gods any longer? I have given an answer and I will keep watch over him; I am like a branching fir-tree, from me comes your fruit. ⁹ He who is wise will see these things; he who has good sense will have knowledge of them. For the ways of the Lord are straight, and the upright will go in them, but sinners will be falling in them.

Ways of the Lord

Jehovah

Psalm 107:43

Let the wise give thought to these things, and see the mercies of the Lord.

Proverbs 10:29

The way of the Lord is a strong tower for the upright man, but destruction to the workers of evil.

Jeremiah 9:12

Who is the wise man able to see this? who is he to whom the word of the Lord has come, so that he may make it clear? why is the land given to destruction and burned up like a waste place, so that no one goes through?

Zephaniah 3:5

The Lord in her is upright; he will not do evil; every morning he lets his righteousness be seen, he is unchanging; but the evil-doer has no sense of shame.

Daniel 12:10

Till a number are tested and make themselves clean; and the evil-doers will do evil; for not one of the evil-doers will have knowledge; but all will be made clear to those who are wise.

Luke 2:34

And Simeon gave them his blessing and said to Mary, his mother, See, this child will be the cause of the downfall and the lifting up of great numbers of people in Israel, and he will be a sign against which hard words will be said;

John 8:47

He who is a child of God gives ear to the words of God: your ears are not open to them because you are not from God.

John 18:37

Then Pilate said to him, Are you then a king? Jesus made answer, You say that I am a king. For this purpose was I given birth, and for this purpose I came into the world, that I might give witness to what is true. Every lover of what is true gives ear to my voice.

Genesis 18:25

Let such a thing be far from you, to put the upright to death with the sinner: will not the judge of all the earth do right?

Deuteronomy 32:4

He is the Rock, complete is his work; for all his ways are righteousness: a God without evil who keeps faith, true and upright is he.

Job 17:9

Still the upright keeps on his way, and he who has clean hands gets new strength.

Job 34:10-12

Now then, you wise, take note; you men of knowledge, give ear to me. Let it be far from God to do evil, and from the Ruler of all to do wrong.

Job 34:18-19

He who says to a king, You are an evil-doer; and to rulers, You are sinners;

Psalm 19:7-8

The law of the Lord is good, giving new life to the soul: the witness of the Lord is certain, giving wisdom to the foolish.

Psalm 84:5

Happy is the man whose strength is in you; in whose heart are the highways to Zion.

Psalm 84:7

They go from strength to strength; every one of them comes before God in Zion.

Psalm 111:7-8

The works of his hands are faith and righteousness; all his laws are unchanging.

Psalm 119:75

I have seen, O Lord, that your decisions are right, and that in unchanging faith you have sent trouble on me.

Psalm 119:128

Because of it I keep straight in all things by your orders; and I am a hater of every false way.

Proverbs 1:5-6

(The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided:)

Proverbs 4:18

But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day.

Isaiah 1:28

But a common destruction will overtake sinners and evil-doers together, and those who have gone away from the Lord will be cut off.

Isaiah 8:13-15

But let the Lord of armies be holy to you, and go in fear of him, giving honour to him.

Isaiah 26:7

The way of the good man is straight; the road of the upright is made smooth by you.

Ezekiel 18:25

But you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Give ear, now, O children of Israel; is my way not equal? are not your ways unequal?

Ezekiel 33:17-20

But the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: when it is they whose way is not equal.

Matthew 11:19

The Son of man has come feasting, and they say, See, a lover of food and wine, a friend of tax-farmers and sinners! And wisdom is judged to be right by her works.

Matthew 13:11-12

And he said to them in answer, To you is given the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

Luke 4:28-29

And all who were in the Synagogue were very angry when these things were said to them.

Luke 7:23

And a blessing will be on him who has no doubts about me.

John 3:19-20

And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil.

John 9:39

And Jesus said, I came into this world to be a judge, so that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.

John 15:24

If I had not done among them the works which no other man ever did, they would have had no sin: but now they have seen, and they have had hate in their hearts for me and my Father.

Romans 7:12

But the law is holy, and its orders are holy, upright, and good.

Romans 9:32-33

Why? Because they were not searching for it by faith, but by works. They came up against the stone which was in the way;

2 Corinthians 2:15-16

For we are a sweet perfume of Christ to God in those who are getting salvation and in those who are going to destruction;

2 Thessalonians 2:9-12

Even the one whose coming is marked by the working of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders,

1 Peter 2:7-8

And the value is for you who have faith; but it is said for those without faith, The very stone which the builders put on one side, was made the chief stone of the building;