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Hos. 14:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.

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Hos. 14:2‑3• ²Take with you words, and turn to Jehovah: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously; so will we render the calves of our lips.
³Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say anymore to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy. (Hos. 14:2‑3)

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Job 34:32• ³²Things beyond [what] I see teach me:{HR}I have done iniquity — I will not do it again. (Job 34:32)

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Acts 19:18‑20• ¹⁸Many too of those that had believed came confessing and declaring their deeds.
¹⁹And not a few of those that practiced curious arts brought their books and burnt [them] before all. And they summed up the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
²⁰So with might the word of the Lord increased and prevailed. (Acts 19:18‑20)

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1 Thess. 1:9• ⁹For they themselves report concerning us what sort of entrance we had unto you; and how ye turned unto God from idols to serve a living and true God, (1 Thess. 1:9)

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1 Peter 1:14‑16• ¹⁴as children of obedience, not conformed to the former lusts in your ignorance,
¹⁵but according to the Holy One that called you, be ye also holy in every [part of] conduct,
¹⁶because it is written, Holy ye shall be, because I [am] holy. (1 Peter 1:14‑16)

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1 Peter 4:3‑4• ³For the past time [is] sufficient to have wrought out the will of the Gentiles, walking as ye had done in lasciviousness, lusts, wine-bibbings, revels, carousings, and unhallowed idolatries;
⁴wherein they think it strange that ye run not with [them] into the same excess of profligacy, speaking injuriously, (1 Peter 4:3‑4)

I have.

Job 33:27• ²⁷He singeth before mortals, and saith,{HR}I sinned and perverted right, and it satisfied me not. (Job 33:27)

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Jer. 31:18‑20• ¹⁸I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art Jehovah my God.
¹⁹Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
²⁰Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 31:18‑20)

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Luke 15:20• ²⁰And he arose and came unto his father. But while he was yet a long way off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell upon his neck and covered him with kisses. (Luke 15:20)

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John 1:47‑48• ⁴⁷Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile.
⁴⁸Nathanael saith to him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said to him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee. (John 1:47‑48)

I am.

Isa. 41:19• ¹⁹I will give in the wilderness the cedar, acacia, and myrtle, and oleaster; I will set in the desert the cypress, pine, and box-tree together; (Isa. 41:19)

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Isa. 55:13• ¹³Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress, and instead of the nettle shall come up the myrtle; and it shall be to Jehovah for a name, for an everlasting sign [that] shall not be cut off. (Isa. 55:13)

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Isa. 60:13• ¹³The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the cypress, the pine, and the box-tree together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious. (Isa. 60:13)

From me.

John 1:16• ¹⁶and of his fullness all we received, and grace for grace. (John 1:16)

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John 15:1‑8• ¹I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
²Every branch in me not bearing fruit, he taketh it away; and every one that beareth fruit, he cleanseth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
³Already ye are clean, because of the word which I have spoken to you.
⁴Abide in me, and I in you: as the branch cannot bear fruit from itself, unless it abide in the vine; so neither [can] ye, unless ye abide in me.
⁵I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, he beareth much fruit; because apart from me ye can do nothing.
⁶If one abide not in me, he is cast out as the branch, and is dried up: and they gather it, and cast [it] into the fire, and it burneth.
⁷If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask what ye will, and it shall come to pass for you.
⁸In this is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit, and [ye shall] become my disciples. (John 15:1‑8)

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Gal. 5:22‑23• ²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith, meekness, self-control:
²³against such things there is no law. (Gal. 5:22‑23)

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Eph. 5:9• ⁹(for the fruit of the light [is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth), (Eph. 5:9)

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Phil. 1:11• ¹¹being filled with the fruit of righteousness that [is] by Jesus Christ unto God's praise and glory. (Phil. 1:11)

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Phil. 2:13• ¹³for it is God that worketh in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure. (Phil. 2:13)

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Phil. 4:13• ¹³In all things I am strong in him that empowereth me. (Phil. 4:13)

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James 1:17• ¹⁷Every good giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation nor shadow of turning. (James 1:17)

• It appears to be a conversation between Ephraim and Jehovah. “Ephraim [shall say], “What have I to do any more with idols?” To this Jehovah answers, “I myself have heard and observed him.” Thereon Ephraim replies, “I am like a green fir tree”; to which Jehovah rejoins, “From me is thy fruit found.” What a blessed change for Ephraim! and what communion with their God! (“Hosea 14” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? (I answer him, and I will observe him.) I am like a green fir-tree.—From me is thy fruit found.

W. Kelly Translation

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Ephraim shall say, What have I to do anymore with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir-tree. From me is thy fruit found.