Hosea 4:11
Loose ways and new wine take away wisdom.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
In Context
Cross References
Proverbs 6:32He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul.
Proverbs 23:27For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.
Isaiah 5:12And corded instruments and wind-instruments and wine are in their feasts: but they give no thought to the work of the Lord, and they are not interested in what his hands are doing.
Jeremiah 23:13And I have seen ways without sense in the prophets of Samaria; they became prophets of the Baal, causing my people Israel to go wrong.
Hosea 5:4Their works will not let them come back to their God, for a false spirit is in them and they have no knowledge of the Lord.
Luke 21:34But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net:
Matthew Henry on Hosea 4:7-12
Grounds of God's Controversy with Israel; The Sins of the Priests and People. ( b. c. 758.) 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. 7 As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame. 8 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity. 9 And there shall… Read the whole commentary →