Hosea 10:1
The people of Israel were like a grapevine that used to produce grapes. The more prosperous they were, the more altars they built. The more productive their land was, the more beautiful they made the sacred stone pillars they worship.
Hosea 8:11
The more altars that the people of Ephraim build to make offerings to pay for their sins, the more places they have for sinning.
Hosea 12:11
The people of Gilead are evil. They are worthless. They sacrifice bulls in Gilgal. But their altars will become like piles of rubble beside a plowed field.
1 Kings 14:23
They built places of worship for false gods. They put up stone pillars and symbols of Asherah to worship on the hills and under shady trees.
Isaiah 5:1-7
Let me sing to my loved one a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard: My loved one had a vineyard on a fertile hill.
Jeremiah 2:28
Where are the gods that you made for yourselves? Let them come and rescue you when you have trouble. You have as many gods as you have cities, Judah!
Ezekiel 15:1-5
Jehovah continued to speak his word to me:
Leviticus 26:1
Do not make idols or set up statues, stone pillars, or carved stones to worship. I am Jehovah your God!
Hosea 2:8
She did not know that I gave her the grain, the new wine and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
Hosea 8:4
They chose their own kings. I did not approve. They chose their own princes. Princes I did not know. They made idols with their own silver and gold. Because of this, they will be destroyed!
Hosea 12:8
The people of Ephraim say: We are rich. We have made a fortune. With all this wealth, no one will find us guilty of any sin.
Hosea 13:2
They sin more and more. They make idols from silver for themselves. These idols are skillfully made. All of them are the work of craftsmen. People say this about the Israelites: They offer sacrifices and kiss calf-shaped idols.
Hosea 13:6
When I fed you, you were full. When you were full, you became arrogant. That is why you forgot me.
Nahum 2:2
Jehovah will restore the pride of Jacob just like the pride of Israel. The devastators have emptied them out and destroyed their vine-branches.
Zechariah 7:5-6
Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying: 'For the past seventy years did you fast for me when you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months?
John 15:1-6
I am the true vine, and my Father is the cultivator.
Romans 14:7-8
For none of us lives to himself, and no man dies to himself.
2 Corinthians 5:16
From now on we know no man according to the flesh: even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him so no longer.
Philippians 2:21
They all seek their own interest and not the things of Jesus Christ.