Hosea 14:9

A Promise Of Restoration

⁸ O Ephraim, what more have I to do with idols? It is I who answer and look after you. I am like a luxuriant cypress and fruit comes from me. ⁹ Whoever is wise, let him understand these things;
Whoever is discerning, let him know them.
For the ways of the Lord are right,
And the righteous will walk in them,
But transgressors will stumble in them.

Ways of the Lord

Jehovah

Psalm 107:43

Let those who think they are wise pay attention to these things so they will understand the loving kindness of Jehovah.

Proverbs 10:29

The way of Jehovah is a rock (stronghold) to the upright. The workers of iniquity will be destroyed.

Jeremiah 9:12

Who is the wise man that may understand this? Who is he to whom the mouth of Jehovah has spoken? Let him declare it? Why is the land ruined, laid waste like a desert, so that no one passes through?

Zephaniah 3:5

Jehovah is righteous within her. He will do no wrong. He brings justice to the dawn of the morning. He does not fail! Yet the unjust know no shame.

Daniel 12:10

Many will purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined. The wicked will do wickedly and none of the wicked will understand. Those who are wise will understand!

Luke 2:34

Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother: This child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel and for a sign that is spoken against.

John 8:47

He that is of God hears the words of God. That is why you do not listen. You are not from God!

John 18:37

Pilate said: Are you a king then? Jesus answered: As you say I am a king. I was born and came into the world for this purpose, that I should bear witness to the truth! Every one who is of the truth hears my voice.

Genesis 18:25

Surely you would not do that! Would you slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be as the wicked? Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

Deuteronomy 32:4

He is the Rock! His work is perfect. For all His ways are just. He is a God of faithfulness and without evil. He is just and upright.

Job 17:9

Yet, the righteous person clings to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.

Job 34:10-12

Hear me, you who have sense, far be it from God that he should do wickedness, and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.

Job 34:18-19

Should anyone even say to a king: You good-for-nothing scoundrel! Or to nobles, you wicked people!

Psalm 19:7-8

The law of Jehovah is perfect. It gives new life. The testimony of Jehovah is dependable. It makes the simple wise.

Psalm 84:5

How happy are those whose strength comes from you, who are eager to make the pilgrimage to Mount Zion.

Psalm 84:7

They grow stronger as they go and they will see the God of gods on Zion.

Psalm 111:7-8

His works are done with truth and justice. All his guiding principles are trustworthy.

Psalm 119:75

I know, O Jehovah, that your judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

Psalm 119:128

That is why I esteem right all your precepts and I hate every false way.

Proverbs 1:5-6

A wise man will hear and will increase learning. A man of understanding will procure wise counsel.

Proverbs 4:18

The path of the righteous is like the shining light of dawn that shines brighter and brighter until the more perfect day.

Isaiah 1:28

Rebels and sinners will be crushed at the same time. Those who abandon Jehovah will come to an end.

Isaiah 8:13-15

Remember that Jehovah of Hosts is holy. He is the one you should respect. He is the one you should reverence (venerate) (exalt).

Isaiah 26:7

The path of the righteous is level. O upright One, you make the way of the righteous smooth.

Ezekiel 18:25

But you say: Jehovah's way is unfair. Listen, nation of Israel, is my way fair? Is it your ways that are unfair?

Ezekiel 33:17-20

But your people say: 'Jehovah's way is not right.' Yet, their ways are not right.

Matthew 11:19

The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'A gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' Wisdom is justified by its actions.

Matthew 13:11-12

He responded: You are allowed to know the divine secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but it is not for others to know. (The Greek word for you is plural and is applied to the disciples as a group.)

Luke 4:28-29

Everyone in the synagogue was angry when they heard these things.

Luke 7:23

Blessed is he who is not offended by me.

John 3:19-20

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world. People loved the darkness rather than the light for their works were evil.

John 9:39

Jesus said: I came into the world for this judgment that those not seeing may see and those seeing may become blind.

John 15:24

If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would have no sin. They have seen and hated both my Father and me.

Romans 7:12

The law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

Romans 9:32-33

Why? It is because it was not based on the principle of faith, but on that of works. They have stumbled at the stumbling stone.

2 Corinthians 2:15-16

For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God. We are an aroma for those who are saved and those who perish.

2 Thessalonians 2:9-12

The evil (lawless) one will come with the power of Satan and perform all kinds of false signs and wonders.

1 Peter 2:7-8

This precious value is for those who believe. But for the unbeliever: The stone that the builders rejected became the cornerstone.