Hosea 14:4

I will heal their unfaithfulness; I will love them freely, for my anger has turned away from them.
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Treated in 12 passages across the library.

  1. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

    The best things work for good to the godly cites Hos. xiv. 4

    …of sin? There is a promise working for good. “ I will heal their backslidings” (Hos. xiv. 4). God will not only bestow mercy, but grace. And He has made a promise of sending His…

  2. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.2 The Second Commandment cites Hos 14: 4

    …our enmity. We may force God to punish us, but not to love us. ‘I will love them freely.’ Hos 14: 4. Every link in the golden chain of salvation is wrought and interwoven with free grace.…

  3. The Key Teachings of Hudson Taylor · Ochorus Originals

    Communion Broken and Restored cites HOSEA 14:4

    …heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him. HOSEA 14:4 Taylor also notices a change in the bride’s words over the course of the book. Early on…

  4. The Way to God (For Teens) · Dwight L. Moody

    Coming Back cites Hosea 14:4

    …their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.” — Hosea 14:4 (KJV) Moody’s last chapter is for people who have drifted away from God. The old word for…

  5. Morning by Morning · Charles H. Spurgeon

    October cites Hosea 14:4

    …lodestone draw us heavenward towards itself. October 22 “I will love them freely.” (Hosea 14:4) This sentence is a body of divinity in miniature. He who understands its meaning is a…

  6. The Saint and His Saviour · Charles H. Spurgeon

    Jesus Desired cites Hos. xiv. 4

    …when thou canst cry after the Lord, and then even thou shalt be delivered! a Crisp. b Hos. xiv. 4. c 2 Sam. xiv. 14. d C. Wesley. e Herbert. f Sermon on Prayer and its Answer. g Ephr.…

  7. The Mortification of Sin in Believers · John Owen

    When the heart is disquieted by sin, speak no peace to it until God speak it cites Hos. xiv. 4

    …pardon,” — he will multiply or add to pardon, he will do it again and again; or that in Hos. xiv. 4, “I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely.” This the man considers, and…

  8. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 3, Chapter 14 — The Beginning of Justification cites Hosea 14:4

    …thing by his Prophet: “I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him,” (Hosea 14:4). Assuredly he is not influenced by works if his love turns to us spontaneously. But the…

  9. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    The Mercy of God cites Hos 14:4

    …force it. We may force God to punish us, but not to love us. ‘I will love them freely.’ Hos 14:4. Every link in the chain of salvation is wrought and interwoven with free grace. Election…

  10. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    The Covenant of Grace cites Hos 14:4

    …of grace; that ‘God will cast our sins behind his back;’ that ‘he will love us freely;’ Hos 14:4; that he will give us a will to accept of the mercy of the covenant, and strength to…

  11. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Growth in Grace cites Hos 14:4

    …not only compared to stars for their light, but to trees for their growth. Isa 61:1, and Hos 14:4. A good Christian is not like Hezekiah’s sun that went backwards, nor Joshua’s sun that…

  12. The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life · Hannah Whitall Smith

    Growth cites Hosea 14:4-6

    …shall sp read out; his beauty shall be like the olive, and his fragrance like Lebanon.”(Hosea 14:4-6) “They shall return and dwell beneath my shadow; they shall flourish like the grain; they…

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