Hosea 12:8

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Summary

And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.

Yet

I have

Bible References

Yet

If I have made gold my hope, or have called fine gold my trust;

Those who trust in their wealth, and their many riches, boast themselves.

Behold, the man who did not make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, he was strong in his wickedness.

Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery; if riches increase, do not set your heart on them.

those buying them kill them, and hold themselves not guilty. And those who sell them say, Blessed be Jehovah, for I am rich; and their shepherds do not pity them.

And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat drink and be merry.

No servant can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

meddling, of men whose minds have been corrupted and deprived of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness. Withdraw from such.

Because you say, I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing, and do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked,

I have

and so that you might not say in your heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.

For he says, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am wise. And I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the people like a strong man.

So he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his seine; because by them his portion is fat and his food rich.

And also wine indeed betrays a proud man, and he is not content. He widens his soul like Sheol, and he is like death, and is not satisfied, but gathers all nations to himself, and heaps to himself all the peoples.