Hosea 14:9

A Promise Of Restoration

⁸ Ephraim [shall say], What have I to do any more with idols? I have answered, and will regard him. I am like a green fir tree. From me thy fruit is found. ⁹ Who is wise, that he may understand these things, prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them. But transgressors shall fall therein.

Ways of the Lord

Jehovah

Psalm 107:43

He who is wise will give heed to these things, and they will consider the loving kindnesses of LORD.

Proverbs 10:29

The way of LORD is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

Jeremiah 9:12

Who is the wise man, who may understand this, and he to whom the mouth of LORD has spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that none passes through?

Zephaniah 3:5

LORD in the midst of her is righteous. He will not do iniquity. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He does not fail, but the unjust man knows no shame.

Daniel 12:10

Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined, but the wicked shall do wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, but those who are wise shall understand.

Luke 2:34

And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary his mother, Behold, this man is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign being repudiated

John 8:47

He who is of God hears the sayings of God. Because of this ye do not hear, because ye are not of God.

John 18:37

Pilate therefore said to him, Then thou a king? Jesus answered, Thou say that I am a king. For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, that I would testify to the truth. Every man who is of the truth hears m

Genesis 18:25

That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay a righteous man with a wicked man, that so the righteous man should be as the wicked man. Far be it from thee. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

Deuteronomy 32:4

The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice, a God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is he.

Job 17:9

Yet the righteous shall hold on his way. And he who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.

Job 34:10-12

Therefore hearken to me, ye men of understanding. Far be it from me to sin before LORD, and pervert righteousness before the Almighty.

Job 34:18-19

[him] who says to a king, [Thou are] vile, to ranking men, [Ye are] wicked,

Psalm 19:7-8

The law of LORD is perfect, restoring the soul. The testimony of LORD is sure, making a simple man wise.

Psalm 84:5

Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee, in whose heart are the highways [to Zion].

Psalm 84:7

They go from strength to strength; each one of them appears before God in Zion.

Psalm 111:7-8

The works of his hands are truth and justice. All his precepts are sure.

Psalm 119:75

I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness thou have afflicted me.

Psalm 119:128

Therefore I esteem all precepts concerning all [things] to be right. I hate every FALSE way.

Proverbs 1:5-6

that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning, and that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsels,

Proverbs 4:18

But the path of the righteous is as the dawning light, that shines more and more to the perfect day.

Isaiah 1:28

But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake LORD shall be consumed.

Isaiah 8:13-15

LORD of hosts, him ye shall sanctify, and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

Isaiah 26:7

The way of the just is uprightness. Thou who are upright directs the path of the just.

Ezekiel 18:25

Yet ye say, The way of LORD is not equitable. Hear now, O house of Israel. Is not my way equitable? Are not your ways inequitable?

Ezekiel 33:17-20

Yet the sons of thy people say, The way of LORD is not equitable. But as for them, their way is not equitable.

Matthew 11:19

The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold the man, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners! And wisdom is justified from her children.

Matthew 13:11-12

And having answered, he said to them, Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to those men it has not been given.

Luke 4:28-29

And all in the synagogue were filled with rage, having heard these things.

Luke 7:23

And blessed is he, whoever will not be offended by me.

John 3:19-20

And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their deeds were evil.

John 9:39

And Jesus said, For judgment I came into this world, so that those not seeing might see, and those who see might become blind.

John 15:24

If I had not done among them the works that no other man has done, they would not have had sin, but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

Romans 7:12

So the law is indeed holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

Romans 9:32-33

Why? Because it was not from faith but as from works of law. For they stumbled at the stone of stumbling,

2 Corinthians 2:15-16

Because we are a fragrance of Christ to God, in those being saved and in those perishing:

2 Thessalonians 2:9-12

Whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and marvels of deceit,

1 Peter 2:7-8

To you therefore who believe is the preciousness, but for men who disobey, A stone that the builders rejected, this became the head of the corner,