Exodus 34:14

14  (for you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God), 

Isaiah  54:5

5  For your Maker is your husband, the LORD of hosts is his name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is called. 

Hosea  2:19-20

19  And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy. 

20  I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And you shall know the LORD. 

Eph. 5:31-32

31  “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” 

32  This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. 

2 Cor. 11:2-3

2  For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ. 

3  But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ. 

1 Kings 14:22

22  And Judah did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins that they committed, more than all that their fathers had done. 

Psalm 78:58

58  For they provoked him to anger with their high places; they moved him to jealousy with their idols. 

James 4:5

5  Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”? 

1 Cor. 10:20,22

20  But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. 

21  Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils. 

22  Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he? 

Deut. 5:9

9  You shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 

Zech. 1:14

14  So the angel who talked with me said to me, ‘Cry out, Thus says the LORD of hosts: I am exceedingly jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion. 

1 Chron. 5:25

25  But they broke faith with the God of their fathers, and whored after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them. 

Ezek. 16:26-29

26  You also played the whore with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, multiplying your whoring, to provoke me to anger. 

27  Behold, therefore, I stretched out my hand against you and diminished your allotted portion and delivered you to the greed of your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior. 

28  You played the whore also with the Assyrians, because you were not satisfied; yes, you played the whore with them, and still you were not satisfied. 

29  You multiplied your whoring also with the trading land of Chaldea, and even with this you were not satisfied. 

Numbers 15:39

39  And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring: 

Ezek. 16:15

15  “But you trusted in your beauty and played the whore because of your renown and lavished your whorings on any passerby; your beauty became his. 

Jer. 5:8

8  They were well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing for his neighbor's wife. 

Isaiah 1:21

21  How the faithful city has become a whore, she who was full of justice! Righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers. 

Judges 8:33-34

33  As soon as Gideon died, the people of Israel turned again and whored after the Baals and made Baal-berith their god. 

34  And the people of Israel did not remember the LORD their God, who had delivered them from the hand of all their enemies on every side, 

Hosea 2:14-20

14  “Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her. 

15  And there I will give her her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. And there she shall answer as in the days of her youth, as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt. 

16  “And in that day, declares the LORD, you will call me ‘My Husband,’ and no longer will you call me ‘My Baal.’ 

17  For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more. 

18  And I will make for them a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the ground. And I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in safety. 

19  And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy. 

20  I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And you shall know the LORD. 

“Whom should I give my heart’s affection but Thee, who gavest Thine to faith?

Thy fervent love is my protection;

Lord, Thou hast loved me unto death.”

Karl F. Lochner

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