Hosea 12:8

Further Words Of Judgment

⁷ Jehovah says: The merchants use dishonest scales. They love to cheat people. ⁸ And Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich,
I have found wealth for myself;
In all my labors they will find in me
No iniquity, which would be sin.”
⁹ I am Jehovah your God. I brought you out of Egypt. I will make you live in tents again as you did during your appointed festivals.

In Me

Ephraim

No

Sin

Revelation 3:17

You say, I am rich and have become wealthy and have need of nothing." You do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.

Psalm 62:10

Do not count on extortion to make you rich. Do not hope to gain anything through robbery. When riches increase, do not depend on them.

Zechariah 11:5

Their owners slay them and claim they are not guilty. They that sell them say: Blessed be Jehovah, for I am rich and their own shepherds do not pity them.

Deuteronomy 8:17

When you succeed do not brag: 'I am rich. I earned it all myself.'

Job 31:24-25

If I have made gold my trust, or called fine gold my confidence,

Psalm 49:6

They trust their riches and brag about their abundant wealth.

Psalm 52:7

Here is the man who did not make God his strength (refuge) (stronghold). He trusted in the abundance of his riches. He strengthened himself in his wickedness.

Proverbs 30:12

There is a generation pure in their own eyes, and yet not washed from their filthiness.

Proverbs 30:20

Such is the way of an adulterous woman. She eats and wipes her mouth, and says: I have done no wickedness.

Isaiah 10:13-14

The king of Assyria says: By the strength of my hand I have done it. By my wisdom and understanding I have done it! I am prudent! Also I have removed the boundaries of the nations. I have robbed their treasuries. I have brought down people like a mighty man!

Jeremiah 2:23

How can you say, 'I have not been dishonored and have not gone after the Baal gods?' Look how you have behaved in the valley. Acknowledge what you have done. You are like a young camel that swiftly runs here and there.

Jeremiah 2:35

After all this you say: 'I am innocent. God will turn his anger from me. For I have not sinned.'

Habakkuk 1:16

He offers sacrifices and burns incense to his fishing net. For it is through this their catch is great and the food is plentiful.

Habakkuk 2:5-6

Wine is treacherous and never allows an arrogant man to rest. He never stays home. He has a large appetite like the grave. Like death he is never satisfied. He gathers all nations and collects all the people.

Malachi 2:17

You have made Jehovah weary with your words. You ask: 'How have we wearied him?' You say: 'Every one that does evil is good in Jehovah's sight.' You also say: 'He delights in them.' Then you ask: 'where is the God of justice?'

Malachi 3:13

You have said terrible things about me, said Jehovah of Hosts. Yet you ask: 'What have we said about you?'

Luke 10:29

Desiring to justify himself, he said to Jesus: Who is my neighbor?

Luke 12:19

I will say to my self: 'You have many possessions saved for many years. Take it easy and eat, drink and be merry.'

Luke 16:13

No one can serve two masters. He will hate one and love the other. He will be loyal to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

Luke 16:15

Jesus said: You make yourselves look righteous to other people. God knows your hearts. The things considered of great value by people are worth nothing in God's sight.

1 Timothy 6:5

frictions between men corrupted in mind and lacking in truth, supposing that godliness is a way of gain.

1 Timothy 6:17

Command those who are rich in this present system not to be high-minded (arrogant), not to have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy.