A moment in scripture
Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
The surrounding passage
- Hosea 4:4
Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.
- Hosea 4:5
Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.
- Hosea 4:7
As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.
- Hosea 4:8
They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.