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Hosea chapter 8 verse 12 (NIV)  I wrote for them the many things of my law,    but they regarded them as something foreign. Last weekend I was sent a video via Instagram of a speech made by Danny Kruger MP. The chamber of the House of Commons was almost empty with a single figure…

Hosea chapter 6 verse 3 (NIV)  Let us acknowledge the LORD;    let us press on to acknowledge him.   As surely as the sun rises,    he will appear;   he will come to us like the winter rains,    like the spring rains that water the earth.”  Hosea reminds us here that we…

Hosea chapter 3 verse 1 (NIV)  The LORD said to me, “Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress. Love her as the LORD loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes. ” This must have been…

Hosea chapter 2 verses 19-20 (NIV)  I will betroth you to me forever;    I will betroth you in righteousness and justice,    in love and compassion.   I will betroth you in faithfulness,    and you will acknowledge the LORD. In the biblical sense to betroth literally means, “by my truth I bind myself…

Amos chapter 8 verses 4-6 (NIV)   Hear this, you who trample the needy    and do away with the poor of the land, saying,  “When will the New Moon be over    that we may sell grain,   and the Sabbath be ended    that we may market wheat?” —   skimping on the measure,…

Amos chapter 7 verses 14-15( NIV)  Amos answered Amaziah, “I was neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but I was a shepherd, and I also took care of sycamore-fig trees. But the LORD took me from tending the flock and said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’ Amos was a…

Amos chapter 5 verse 14 (NIV)  Seek good, not evil,    that you may live.   Then the LORD God Almighty will be with you, just as you say he is. 1 John chapter 3 verse 18 (NlV) Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. The people…

Amos chapter 3 verses 7-8 (NIV)   Surely the Sovereign LORD does nothing    without revealing his plan   to his servants the prophets.    The lion has roared —    who will not fear?   The Sovereign LORD has spoken—    who can but prophesy? 1 Corinthians chapter 16 verse 13 (NIV)  Be on your guard;…

Romans chapter 2 verse 7 (NIV)  To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honour and immortality, he will give eternal life.  Romans chapter 2 verse 13 (NIV)  For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will…

2 King’s chapter 24: 10-14 (NIV)  At that time the officers of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon advanced on Jerusalem and laid siege to it, and Nebuchadnezzar himself came up to the city while his officers were besieging it. Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his attendants, his nobles and his officials all surrendered to him.In…