Deuteronomy 25:4
4 a“You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.Hosea 2:5
5For btheir mother has played the whore;she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For cshe said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
who dgive me my bread and my water,
my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’
Hosea 3:1
Hosea Redeems His Wife
1And the Lord said to me, e“Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins.”Hosea 9:1
The Lord Will Punish Israel
1 Rejoice not, O Israel!Exult not like the peoples;
ffor you have played the whore, forsaking your God.
gYou have loved a prostitute’s wages
on all threshing floors.
Romans 16:18
18For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but htheir own appetites, ▼▼Greek their own belly
and jby smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.
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