Hosea 4:8

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Summary

Hosea 4:8

They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.

Eat

Leviticus 6:26

Leviticus 7:6

Set their heart on their iniquity

Bible References

Eat

The priest by whom it is offered for sin, is to take it for his food in a holy place, in the open space of the Tent of meeting.

Every male among the priests may have it as food in a holy place: it is most holy.

Set their heart on their iniquity

Why then are you looking with envy on my offerings of meat and of meal which were ordered by my word, honouring your sons before me, and making yourselves fat with all the best of the offerings of Israel, my people?

To you, O Lord, my soul is lifted up.

Yes, the dogs are for ever looking for food; while these, the keepers of the sheep, are without wisdom: they have all gone after their pleasure, every one looking for profit; they are all the same.

Son of man, these men have taken their false gods into their hearts and put before their faces the sin which is the cause of their fall: am I to give ear when they come to me for directions?

Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us.

If only there was one among you who would see that the doors were shut, so that you might not put a light to the fire on my altar for nothing! I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of armies, and I will not take an offering from your hands.

For such people are not servants of the Lord Christ, but of their stomachs; and by their smooth and well-said words the hearts of those who have no knowledge of evil are tricked.

By whom some families have been completely overturned; who take money for teaching things which are not right; these will have to be stopped.

And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.