Hosea 4The Charge against the Priests and the People1 “Hear a word of the Lord, O sons of Israel, because the Lord has a dispute with those who inhabit the land, because there is no truth or mercy or knowledge of God in the land. 2 A curse and a lie and murder and theft and adultery has been poured out upon the land, and bloodshed is mixed upon bloodshed. 3 On account of this, the land will lament and be diminished with all those that dwell in her, with the wild beasts of the field, and with the reptiles of the land, and with the birds of the heavens; even the fish of the sea will come to an end, 4 in order that nobody may either judge or reproach anybody. But my people will be like a priest who is opposed. 5 And he will be sick during the day, and a prophet will be sick with you. I have made your mother like night. 6 My people has become as if it possesses no knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, so I will reject you from being a priest to me. And you forgot the law of your God, so I will forget your children. 7 In accordance with their multitude, thus they sinned against me. I will turn their glory into dishonor. 8 They will eat the sins of my people, and they will take their souls by their injustices. 9 And just as the people will be, so also the priest, and I will avenge against him his ways, and I will repay him his counsels. 10 And they will eat and never be full; they prostituted themselves and did not prosper, because they neglected the Lord, to guard fornication. 11 The heart of my people received both wine and intoxicating drink. 12 They inquired with omens, and they would bring news to him with his rods. They were led astray by a spirit of fornication, and they have fornicated away from their God. 13 They would sacrifice upon the summits of the mountains, and make offerings upon the hills, under an oak and a white poplar and a shady tree, because it is good shelter. Because of this, your daughters will commit fornication, and your brides will commit adultery. 14 And I will not look upon your daughters when they prostitute themselves, and upon your brides when they commit adultery, because the men would mingle with the prostitutes, and make offerings with those who have been brought to an end, and the people who understand would entwine with a prostitute. 15 But you, O Israel, do not be ignorant, And you, O Judah, do not enter into Gilgal, and do not go up into the house of Beth-aven, and do not swear by the living Lord. 16 Because Israel used to be irritated like an irritated heifer. Now the Lord will tend them like a lamb in open space. 17 Ephraim, partaking in idols, set traps for himself. 18 He chose Canaanites; fornicating themselves, they were sexually immoral. They loved dishonor through its insolence. 19 You are a commotion of wind in its wings, and they will be put to shame by their altars.”

1 Corinthians 1:26-31 (NKJV)

26 For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. 27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; 28 and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, 29 that no flesh should glory in His presence. 30 But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God–and righteousness and sanctification and redemption– 31 that, as it is written, “He who glories, let him glory in the LORD.”

Ho 3:1–5The Restoration of Hosea’s Marriage3 And the Lord said to me, “Go again, and love a woman who loves evil things and is an adulteress, just as God loves the sons of Israel, but they look down to foreign gods, and they love cakes with dried grapes.” 2 So I hired her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer of barley corns and a vessel of wine. 3 And I said to her, “You will sit with me for many days. And you will not prostitute yourself, nor become a man’s. And I will be with you.” 4 Because the sons of Israel will remain for many days without having a king and without having a ruler, and without having a mode of sacrifice and without having an altar, or priesthood or manifestations. 5 And after these things, the sons of Israel will return, and they will seek after the Lord, their God, and David, their king, and they will be amazed at the Lord, and at his good things in the last days.

Rick Brannan, Ken M. Penner et al., The Lexham English Septuagint, Second Edition (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2020), Ho 3:1–5.

1 Corinthians 1:18-25 (NKJV)

18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.” 20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. 22 For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; 23 but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

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1 Corinthians 1:10-17 (NKJV)

10 Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. 11 For it has been declared to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of Chloe’s household, that there are contentions among you. 12 Now I say this, that each of you says, “I am of Paul,” or “I am of Apollos,” or “I am of Cephas,” or “I am of Christ.” 13 Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul? 14 I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius, 15 lest anyone should say that I had baptized in my own name. 16 Yes, I also baptized the household of Stephanas. Besides, I do not know whether I baptized any other. 17 For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.

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Hosea 2:16-23God’s Marriage to Israel16 “And it will be in that day,” says the Lord, “she will call me ‘My Husband,’ and she will no longer call me ‘Baal.’ 17 And I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and their names will not be remembered again. 18 And I will establish a treaty with them in that day, with the beasts of the field and with the birds of the heavens and the reptiles of the land, and I will crush bow and sword and battle from the land, and I will establish you in hope. 19 And I will betroth you to me for eternity, and I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in judgment and with mercy and with compassionate feelings. 20 And I will betroth you to me in trust, and you will recognize the Lord.” 21 “And it will be in that day,” says the Lord, “I will listen to the heavens, and it will listen to the earth, 22 and the earth will listen to the grain and the wine and the olive oil, and they will listen to Jezreel, 23 and I will sow her for myself upon the land, and I will love her who was not loved, and I will say to Not My People, ‘You are My People,’ and he will say, ‘You are the Lord, my God.’ ”

Rick Brannan, Ken M. Penner et al., The Lexham English Septuagint, Second Edition (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2020), Ho 2:16–23.