Hosea 6:7
But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; in this, they have been dishonest with me.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
In Context
6For I desired mercy and not sacrifice, and knowledge of God more than holocausts.
8Gilead is a city that manufactures idols; it has been tripped up by family relations.
Cross References
Genesis 3:11He said to him, “Then who told you that you were naked, if you have not eaten of the tree from which I instructed you that you should not eat?”
2 Kings 17:15And they cast aside his ordinances, and the covenant that he formed with their fathers, and the testimonies which he testified to them. And they pursued vanities and acted vainly. And they followed the nations that were all around them, concerning the things which the Lord had commanded them not to do, and which they did.
Isaiah 24:5And the earth was corrupted by its inhabitants. For they have transgressed the laws, they have changed the ordinance, they have dissipated the everlasting covenant.
Isaiah 48:8You have neither heard, nor known, nor were your ears open in that time. For I knew that you would transgress greatly, and so I called you a transgressor from the womb.
Jeremiah 5:11For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have greatly transgressed against me, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 31:32not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day when I took them by the hand, so as to lead them away from the land of Egypt, the covenant which they nullified, though I was the ruler over them, says the Lord.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 6:5-11
Promises and Expostulations; The Crimes of the People. ( b. c. 758.) 4 O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. 5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth. 6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. 7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there… Read the whole commentary →