Hosea 8:12

Israel Rejects The Good

¹¹ Because Ephraim has been increasing altars for sin, altars have become a cause of sin to him. ¹² Though I put my law in writing for him in ten thousand rules, they are to him as a strange thing. ¹³ He gives the offerings of his lovers, and takes the flesh for food; but the Lord has no pleasure in them; now he will keep in mind their evil-doing and give them the punishment of their sins; they will go back to Egypt.

Great Things

Hosea 4:6

Destruction has overtaken my people because they have no knowledge; because you have given up knowledge, I will give you up, so that you will be no priest to me, because you have not kept in mind the law of your God, I will not keep your children in my memory.

Deuteronomy 4:6-8

So keep these laws and do them; for so will your wisdom and good sense be clear in the eyes of the peoples, who hearing all these laws will say, Truly, this great nation is a wise and far-seeing people.

2 Kings 17:15-16

And they went against his rules, and the agreement which he made with their fathers, and his laws which he gave them; they gave themselves up to things without sense or value, and became foolish like the nations round them, of whom the Lord had said, Do not as they do.

Nehemiah 9:13-14

And you came down on Mount Sinai, and your voice came to them from heaven, giving them right decisions and true laws, good rules and orders:

Nehemiah 9:26

But they were hard-hearted, and went against your authority, turning their backs on your law, and putting to death your prophets, who gave witness against them with the purpose of turning them back again to you, and they did much to make you angry.

Psalm 119:18

Let my eyes be open to see the wonders of your law.

Psalm 147:19-20

He makes his word clear to Jacob, teaching Israel his laws and his decisions.

Proverbs 22:20

Have I not put in writing for you thirty sayings, with wise suggestions and knowledge,

Isaiah 30:9

For they are an uncontrolled people, false-hearted, who will not give ear to the teaching of the Lord:

Jeremiah 6:16-17

This is what the Lord has said: Take your place looking out on the ways; make search for the old roads, saying, Where is the good way? and go in it that you may have rest for your souls. But they said, We will not go in it.

Ezekiel 20:11

And I gave them my rules and made clear to them my orders, which, if a man keeps them, will be life to him.

Romans 3:1

How then is the Jew better off? or what profit is there in circumcision?

Romans 7:12

But the law is holy, and its orders are holy, upright, and good.