Hosea 4:8

The Lord Accuses The Priests

⁷ The more they increased in multitude, the more they sinned against me, therefore will I change their honour into shame. ⁸ They eat up the sins of my people, and courage them in their wickedness. ⁹ Thus the priest is become like the people. Wherefore I will punish them for their wicked ways, and reward them according to their own imaginations.

My People

Sin Offering

Sin

Isaiah 56:11

They are shameless dogs, that be never satisfied. The shepherds also in like manner have no understanding, but every man turneth his own way, everyone after his own covetousness, with all his power.

Micah 3:11

O ye judges, ye give sentence for gifts; O ye priests, ye teach for lucre; O ye prophets, ye prophesy for money. Yet will they be taken as those that hold upon God, and say, "Is not the LORD among us? Tush, there can no misfortune happen us."

Leviticus 6:26

The priest that offereth it shall eat it in the holy place: even in the court of the tabernacle of witness.

Leviticus 7:6-7

All the males among the priests shall eat thereof in the holy place, for it is most holy.

1 Samuel 2:29

Wherefore kick ye against my sacrifice and against mine offering which I command in the tabernacle, and honourest thy children above me, and make yourselves fat of the first fruits of all the offerings of Israel my people?'

Psalm 24:4

Even he that hath clean hands, and a pure heart, and that hath not lift up his mind unto vanity, nor sworn to deceive his neighbour.

Psalm 25:1

{A Psalm of David} Unto thee, O LORD, will I lift up my soul;

Ezekiel 14:3

"Thou son of man, these men bear their idols in their hearts, and go purposely upon the stumbling block of their own wickedness: how dare they then ask counsel at me?

Ezekiel 14:7

For every man, whether he be of the house of Israel, or a stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which departeth from me, and carrieth idols in his heart, purposing to go still stumbling in his own wickedness, and cometh to a Prophet, for to ask counsel at me through him: unto that man will I the LORD give answer, by mine own self.

Malachi 1:10

Yea, what is he among you, that will do so much as to shut the doors, or to kindle the fire upon mine altar for naught? I have no pleasure in you, sayeth the LORD of Hosts: and as for the meat offering, I will not accept it at your hand.

Romans 16:18

For they that are such serve not the Lord Jesus Christ: but their own bellies. And with sweet preachings and flattering words deceive the hearts of the innocents:

Titus 1:11

whose mouths must be stopped, which pervert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, because of filthy lucre.

2 Peter 2:3

and through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you, whose judgment is not far off, and their damnation sleepeth not.