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Hosea 12:8

And Ephraim boasts: “How rich I have become! I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors, they can find in me no iniquity that is sinful.”

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ASV

And Ephraim said, Surely I am become rich, I have found me wealth: in all my labors they shall find in me no iniquity that were sin.

KJV

And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvai.Yo.merand he has saidH559 →
אֶפְרַ֔יִם'ef.Ra.yimEphraimH669 →
אַ֣ךְ'akhsurelyH389 →
עָשַׁ֔רְתִּי'a.Shar.tiI have become richH6238 →
מָצָ֥אתִיma.Tza.tiI have foundH4672 →
א֖וֹן'onwealthH202 →
לִ֑יLifor myself
כָּל־kol-allH3605 →
יְגִיעַ֕יye.gi.'Aitoil<s> myH3018 →
לֹ֥אlo'notH3808 →
יִמְצְאוּ־yim.tze.'u-people will findH4672 →
לִ֖יlito me
עָוֹ֥ן'a.VoniniquityH5771 →
אֲשֶׁר־'a.Sher-whichH834 →
חֵֽטְא׃Chet'[is] sinH2399 →

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Malachi 1:6“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’Revelation 3:17You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.Psalms 62:10Place no trust in extortion, or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.Proverbs 30:20This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’Proverbs 30:12There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth.Deuteronomy 8:17You might say in your heart, “The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.”Job 31:24–25If I have put my trust in gold or called pure gold my security,1 Timothy 6:5and constant friction between men of depraved mind who are devoid of the truth. These men regard godliness as a means of gain.Isaiah 10:13–14For he says: ‘By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, for I am clever. I have removed the boundaries of nations and plundered their treasures; like a mighty one I subdued their rulers.Psalms 49:6They trust in their wealth and boast in their great riches.Psalms 52:7“Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”Zechariah 11:5whose buyers slaughter them without remorse. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich!’ Even their own shepherds have no compassion on them.Jeremiah 2:23“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young she-camel galloping here and there,Luke 16:15So He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is prized among men is detestable before God.Habakkuk 2:5–6and wealth indeed betrays him. He is an arrogant man never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations to himself and collects all the peoples as his own.Luke 10:29But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”1 Timothy 6:17Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy.Malachi 3:13“Your words against Me have been harsh,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we spoken against You?’

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