Hosea 14:4

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Summary

Hosea 14:4

I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.

I will love

Titus 3:4

For

General references

Isaiah 1:19

Bible References

I will love

It is not because you were more numerous than all the other peoples that the Lord favored and chose you -- for in fact you were the least numerous of all peoples.

The Lord your God is in your midst; he is a warrior who can deliver. He takes great delight in you; he renews you by his love; he shouts for joy over you."

But they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

to the praise of the glory of his grace that he has freely bestowed on us in his dearly loved Son.

But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,

He is the one who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not based on our works but on his own purpose and grace, granted to us in Christ Jesus before time began,

But "when the kindness of God our Savior and his love for mankind appeared,

For

The Lord said to Moses, "Arrest all the leaders of the people, and hang them up before the Lord in broad daylight, so that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel."

Yet he is compassionate. He forgives sin and does not destroy. He often holds back his anger, and does not stir up his fury.

At that time you will say: "I praise you, O Lord, for even though you were angry with me, your anger subsided, and you consoled me.

In other words, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting people's trespasses against them, and he has given us the message of reconciliation.

General references

If you have a willing attitude and obey, then you will again eat the good crops of the land.