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The concept of love and lovers is multifaceted, encompassing romantic, familial, and divine love. However, the term "lovers" is frequently used in Scripture to denote relationships that deviate from God's intended design for human relationships, particularly in the context of idolatry and unfaithfulness. Romantic Love and Marriage The Bible celebrates romantic love within the bounds of marriage. The Song of Solomon is a poetic book that extols the beauty and passion of marital love. In this context, lovers are depicted as a husband and wife who delight in each other. "I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine; he grazes among the lilies" (<a href="/songs/6-3.htm">Song of Solomon 6:3</a>). This portrayal underscores the sanctity and exclusivity of marital love as ordained by God. Illegitimate Relationships Conversely, the Bible often uses the term "lovers" to describe illicit relationships, particularly those involving adultery or idolatry. In the prophetic books, Israel's unfaithfulness to God is frequently likened to a wife who pursues other lovers, symbolizing the nation's idolatry and spiritual adultery. For instance, in the book of Hosea, God commands the prophet to marry an unfaithful woman to illustrate Israel's infidelity: "Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God, for a spirit of prostitution is within them, and they do not know the LORD" (<a href="/hosea/5-4.htm">Hosea 5:4</a>). Warnings Against Unfaithfulness The Bible warns against forming relationships that lead one away from God. Proverbs cautions against the allure of the adulterous woman: "For the lips of an adulteress drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil. But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword" (<a href="/proverbs/5-3.htm">Proverbs 5:3-4</a>). Such warnings serve as a reminder of the destructive nature of pursuing lovers outside the covenant of marriage and fidelity to God. Spiritual Adultery The theme of spiritual adultery is prevalent in the prophetic literature, where Israel's pursuit of foreign gods is depicted as taking other lovers. Jeremiah laments, "How you plot and scheme to win your lovers! Even the worst of women can learn from your ways" (<a href="/jeremiah/4-30.htm">Jeremiah 4:30</a>). This metaphor underscores the seriousness of idolatry and the call to return to exclusive devotion to the Lord. New Testament Perspective In the New Testament, the concept of love is elevated to its highest form in the person and work of Jesus Christ. Believers are called to love God and one another with a pure heart. The apostle Paul writes, "Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good" (<a href="/romans/12-9.htm">Romans 12:9</a>). This genuine love stands in contrast to the false and destructive love of illicit lovers. Conclusion The Bible's treatment of lovers serves as both a celebration of God-ordained love and a caution against relationships that lead to spiritual and moral compromise. Through its teachings, Scripture calls believers to pursue love that aligns with God's will, reflecting His faithfulness and holiness in all relationships.<a name="grk" id="grk"></a><div class="vheading2">Greek</div><a href="/greek/5369.htm">5369. philedonos -- loving pleasure</a> ... loving. Word Origin from philos and hedone Definition loving pleasure NASB Word Usage lovers of pleasure (1). loving pleasure. From ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5369.htm - 6k<a href="/greek/5367.htm">5367. philautos -- loving oneself</a> ... It is only used in 2 Tim 3:2. Word Origin from philos and autos Definition loving oneself NASB Word Usage lovers of self (1). lover of self. ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5367.htm - 7k<a href="/greek/5366.htm">5366. philarguros -- loving money</a> ... having money).". Word Origin from philos and arguros Definition loving money NASB Word Usage lovers of money (2). covetous. From ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5366.htm - 7k<a href="/greek/5377.htm">5377. philotheos -- loving God</a> ... loving God. Word Origin from philos and theos Definition loving God NASB Word Usage lovers of God (1). lover of God. From philos ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5377.htm - 6k<a name="heb" id="heb"></a><div class="vheading2">Strong's Hebrew</div><a href="/hebrew/158.htm">158. ahab -- love (noun)</a> ... 157, 158. ahab. 159 . love (noun). Transliteration: ahab Phonetic Spelling: (ah'-hab) Short Definition: lovers. Word Origin from ... /hebrew/158.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/1730.htm">1730. dod -- beloved, love, uncle</a> ... from an unused word Definition beloved, love, uncle NASB Word Usage beloved (31), beloved's (1), beloved's and my beloved (1), love (8), lovers (1), uncle (11 ... /hebrew/1730.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/868.htm">868. ethnan -- the wages (of a harlot)</a> ... Word Origin from an unused word Definition the wages (of a harlot) NASB Word Usage earnings (4), harlot's wages (2), hire (1), lovers (1), money (3). ... /hebrew/868.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/5689.htm">5689. agab -- to have inordinate affection, lust</a> ... lusted. Word Origin a prim. root Definition to have inordinate affection, lust NASB Word Usage lovers (1), lusted (6). dote, lover. ... /hebrew/5689.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/157.htm">157. aheb -- to love</a> ... root Definition to love NASB Word Usage beloved (1), dearly love (1), friend (5), friends (6), love (88), loved (53), lover (1), lovers (16), loves (42 ... /hebrew/157.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/7453.htm">7453. rea -- friend, companion, fellow</a> ... 27), another's (5), another* (1), companion (3), fellow (1), friend (30), friend's (1), friends (18), husband (1), kind (1), lover (1), lovers (1), mate (1 ... /hebrew/7453.htm - 6k<a name="lib" id="lib"></a><div class="vheading2">Library</div><a href="/library/rolle/the_fire_of_love/chapter_xi_that_lovers_of.htm">That Lovers of God Shall Deem with Him: and of the Love of ...</a> ... BOOK I CHAPTER XI THAT LOVERS OF GOD SHALL DEEM WITH HIM: AND OF THE LOVE OF KNOWLEDGE GOTTEN BY LABOUR, AND OF GOD: AND THAT A TRUE LOVER ERRS NOT, NOR IS ... //christianbookshelf.org/rolle/the fire of love/chapter xi that lovers of.htm<a href="/library/rolle/the_fire_of_love/chapter_iv_the_difference_betwixt.htm">The Difference Betwixt God's Lovers and the World's: and their ...</a> ... THE FIRE OF LOVE. BOOK I CHAPTER IV THE DIFFERENCE BETWIXT GOD'S LOVERS AND THE WORLD'S: AND THEIR MEEDS. The soul of man feels nothing ... /.../rolle/the fire of love/chapter iv the difference betwixt.htm<a href="/library/barton/his_life/a_parable_to_the_lovers.htm">A Parable to the Lovers of Money.</a> ... RENEWED MINISTRY IN PEREA A PARABLE TO THE LOVERS OF MONEY. And the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things; and they scoffed at him. ... //christianbookshelf.org/barton/his life/a parable to the lovers.htm<a href="/library/francis/treatise_on_the_love_of_god/chapter_xi_how_some_of.htm">How Some of the Heavenly Lovers Died Also of Love.</a> ... BOOK VII. OF THE UNION OF THE SOUL WITH HER GOD, WHICH IS PERFECTED IN PRAYER. CHAPTER XI. HOW SOME OF THE HEAVENLY LOVERS DIED ALSO OF LOVE. ... /.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter xi how some of.htm<a href="/library/rolle/the_fire_of_love/chapter_xiv_of_the_praise.htm">Of the Praise of Solitary Life and of the First Lovers Thereof ...</a> ... BOOK I CHAPTER XIV OF THE PRAISE OF SOLITARY LIFE AND OF THE FIRST LOVERS THEREOF: AND THAT LOVE OF GOD STANDS IN HEAT, SONG, AND SWEETNESS: AND THAT REST IS ... //christianbookshelf.org/rolle/the fire of love/chapter xiv of the praise.htm<a href="/library/francis/treatise_on_the_love_of_god/chapter_vi_that_the_love.htm">That the Love of God Above all Things is Common to all Lovers.</a> ... BOOK X. OF THE COMMANDMENT OF LOVING GOD ABOVE ALL THINGS. CHAPTER VI. THAT THE LOVE OF GOD ABOVE ALL THINGS IS COMMON TO ALL LOVERS. ... /.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter vi that the love.htm<a href="/library/francis/treatise_on_the_love_of_god/chapter_ix_of_the_supreme.htm">Of the Supreme Effect of Affective Love, which is the Death of the ...</a> ... CHAPTER IX. OF THE SUPREME EFFECT OF AFFECTIVE LOVE, WHICH IS THE DEATH OF THE LOVERS; AND FIRST, OF SUCH AS DIED IN LOVE. Love is as strong as death. ... /.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter ix of the supreme.htm<a href="/library/rolle/the_fire_of_love/chapter_xii_of_the_felicity.htm">Of the Felicity and Sweetness of God's Love: and of the ...</a> ... XII OF THE FELICITY AND SWEETNESS OF GOD'S LOVE: AND OF THE NIGHTINGALE'S SONG: AND PRAYER FOR PERSEVERANCE OF TRUE GHOSTLY SONG THAT WORLDLY LOVERS HAVE NOT. ... //christianbookshelf.org/rolle/the fire of love/chapter xii of the felicity.htm<a href="/library/various/life_and_works_of_rufinus_with_jeromes_apology_against_rufinus_/8_but_suffer_it_to.htm">But Suffer it to be So, I Beg You, as You are Lovers of Christ ...</a> ... 8. But suffer it to be so, I beg you, as you are lovers of Christ, that the body is to be in incorruption and without these conditions when it rises from the ... /.../8 but suffer it to.htm<a href="/library/pink/the_redeemers_return/4_the_prophecy_of_the.htm">The Prophecy of the Perilous Times.</a> ... For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy." "Men shall be lovers of their ... //christianbookshelf.org/pink/the redeemers return/4 the prophecy of the.htm<a name="thes" id="thes"></a><div class="vheading2">Thesaurus</div><a href="/topical/l/lovers.htm">Lovers (57 Occurrences)</a> ... Multi-Version Concordance Lovers (57 Occurrences). Luke 16:14 The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him. ... /l/lovers.htm - 24k<a href="/topical/p/prostitution.htm">Prostitution (48 Occurrences)</a> ... Ezekiel 16:33 They give gifts to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to you on every side for your ... /p/prostitution.htm - 22k<a href="/topical/l/lover.htm">Lover (55 Occurrences)</a> ... 2:5, 7, 10, etc.); `aghabh, "to love" (Jeremiah 4:30), rea`, "companion" (Jeremiah 3:1), and ahabhim, "loves" (Hosea 8:9), are also translated "lovers" in this ... /l/lover.htm - 24k<a href="/topical/u/unkind.htm">Unkind (7 Occurrences)</a> ... 2 Timothy 3:2 for men shall be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, evil-speakers, to parents disobedient, unthankful, unkind, (YLT). ... /u/unkind.htm - 8k<a href="/topical/u/ungrateful.htm">Ungrateful (2 Occurrences)</a> ... 2 Timothy 3:2 for men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, evil speakers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, profane, (DBY NAS RSV NIV ... /u/ungrateful.htm - 7k<a href="/topical/u/unholy.htm">Unholy (23 Occurrences)</a> ... 2 Timothy 3:2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, (WEB KJV ASV WBS ... /u/unholy.htm - 13k<a href="/topical/u/unthankful.htm">Unthankful (2 Occurrences)</a> ... 2 Timothy 3:2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, (WEB KJV ASV WBS YLT ... /u/unthankful.htm - 7k<a href="/topical/u/uplifted.htm">Uplifted (26 Occurrences)</a> ... 2 Timothy 3:2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, uplifted in pride, given to bitter words, going against the authority of their fathers, never ... /u/uplifted.htm - 14k<a href="/topical/l/lofty.htm">Lofty (44 Occurrences)</a> ... of Christ; (See NAS). 2 Timothy 3:4 traitors, heady, lofty, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, (YLT). Revelation 21:10 So ... /l/lofty.htm - 20k<a href="/topical/l/lusted.htm">Lusted (14 Occurrences)</a> ... (See NIV). Ezekiel 23:5 And Oholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she lusted after her lovers, after the Assyrians her neighbours, (DBY NAS NIV). ... /l/lusted.htm - 10k<a name="res" id="res"></a><div class="vheading2">Resources</div><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/encouraging-Bible-verses.html">What are some encouraging Bible verses? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/fulfilled-prophecy.html">Have any aspects of end times prophecy been fulfilled? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/ISIS-end-times.html">Is ISIS a sign of the end times? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="/concordance/">Bible Concordance</a> • <a href="/dictionary/">Bible Dictionary</a> • <a href="/encyclopedia/">Bible Encyclopedia</a> • <a href="/topical/">Topical Bible</a> • <a href="/thesaurus/">Bible Thesuarus</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="cnc" id="cnc"></a><div class="vheading2">Concordance</div>Lovers (57 Occurrences)<a href="/luke/16-14.htm">Luke 16:14</a> The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him. (WEB WEY ASV YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/1_thessalonians/4-10.htm">1 Thessalonians 4:10</a> And, truly, you are lovers of all the brothers in Macedonia; but it is our desire that your love may be increased still more; (BBE)<a href="/2_timothy/3-2.htm">2 Timothy 3:2</a> For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/2_timothy/3-3.htm">2 Timothy 3:3</a> without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good, (WEB ASV YLT NIV)<a href="/2_timothy/3-4.htm">2 Timothy 3:4</a> traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/titus/1-12.htm">Titus 1:12</a> One of their prophets has said, The men of Crete are ever false, evil beasts, lovers of food, hating work. (BBE)<a href="/titus/2-4.htm">Titus 2:4</a> that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of 'their' husbands, lovers of 'their' children, (YLT)<a href="/judges/5-31.htm">Judges 5:31</a> So may destruction come on all your haters, O Lord; but let your lovers be like the sun going out in his strength. And for forty years the land had peace. (BBE)<a href="/psalms/5-11.htm">Psalms 5:11</a> But let all those who put their faith in you be glad with cries of joy at all times, and let all the lovers of your name be glad in you. (BBE)<a href="/psalms/38-11.htm">Psalms 38:11</a> My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away. (WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT)<a href="/psalms/40-16.htm">Psalms 40:16</a> Let all those who are looking for you be glad and have joy in you; let the lovers of your salvation ever say, May the Lord be great. (BBE)<a href="/psalms/64-10.htm">Psalms 64:10</a> The upright will be glad in the Lord and have hope in him; and all the lovers of righteousness will give him glory. (BBE)<a href="/psalms/69-32.htm">Psalms 69:32</a> The poor will see it and be glad: you who are lovers of God, let your hearts have life. (BBE)<a href="/psalms/69-36.htm">Psalms 69:36</a> The seed of his servants will have their part in it, and there the lovers of his name will have rest. (BBE)<a href="/psalms/70-4.htm">Psalms 70:4</a> Let all those who are looking for you be glad and have joy in you; let the lovers of your salvation ever say, May God be great. (BBE)<a href="/psalms/88-18.htm">Psalms 88:18</a> You have sent my friends and lovers far from me; I am gone from the memory of those who are dear to me. (BBE)<a href="/psalms/97-10.htm">Psalms 97:10</a> You who are lovers of the Lord, be haters of evil; he keeps the souls of his saints; he takes them out of the hand of sinners. (BBE)<a href="/psalms/97-11.htm">Psalms 97:11</a> Light is shining on the lovers of righteousness, and for the upright in heart there is joy. (BBE)<a href="/psalms/119-132.htm">Psalms 119:132</a> Let your eyes be turned to me, and have mercy on me, as it is right for you to do to those who are lovers of your name. (BBE)<a href="/psalms/119-165.htm">Psalms 119:165</a> Great peace have lovers of your law; they have no cause for falling. (BBE)<a href="/proverbs/8-21.htm">Proverbs 8:21</a> So that I may give my lovers wealth for their heritage, making their store-houses full. (BBE YLT)<a href="/songs/1-4.htm">Song of Songs 1:4</a> Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers. (BBE)<a href="/songs/5-1.htm">Song of Songs 5:1</a> I am come into my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved. (See NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/isaiah/66-10.htm">Isaiah 66:10</a> Have joy with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you her lovers: take part in her joy, all you who are sorrowing for her: (BBE)<a href="/jeremiah/2-33.htm">Jeremiah 2:33</a> How trimmest thou thy way to seek love! Therefore--even the wicked women hast thou taught thy ways; (See RSV)<a href="/jeremiah/3-1.htm">Jeremiah 3:1</a> They say, If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and become another man's, will he return to her again? Won't that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me, says Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/jeremiah/3-2.htm">Jeremiah 3:2</a> Let your eyes be lifted up to the open hilltops, and see; where have you not been taken by your lovers? You have been seated waiting for them by the wayside like an Arabian in the waste land; you have made the land unclean with your loose ways and your evil-doing. (BBE RSV NIV)<a href="/jeremiah/4-30.htm">Jeremiah 4:30</a> You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck you with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with paint, in vain do you make yourself beautiful; your lovers despise you, they seek your life. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/jeremiah/8-2.htm">Jeremiah 8:2</a> And they will put them out before the sun and the moon and all the stars of heaven, whose lovers and servants they have been, after whom they have gone, to whom they have made prayers, and to whom they have given worship: they will not be put together or placed in the earth; they will be waste on the face of the earth. (BBE)<a href="/jeremiah/22-20.htm">Jeremiah 22:20</a> Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from Abarim; for all your lovers are destroyed. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV)<a href="/jeremiah/22-22.htm">Jeremiah 22:22</a> The wind shall feed all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity: surely then you will be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/jeremiah/30-14.htm">Jeremiah 30:14</a> All your lovers have forgotten you; they don't seek you: for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV)<a href="/lamentations/1-2.htm">Lamentations 1:2</a> She weeps sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has none to comfort her: All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they are become her enemies. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/lamentations/1-19.htm">Lamentations 1:19</a> I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city, While they sought them food to refresh their souls. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/ezekiel/16-32.htm">Ezekiel 16:32</a> The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband! (BBE)<a href="/ezekiel/16-33.htm">Ezekiel 16:33</a> They give gifts to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to you on every side for your prostitution. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/ezekiel/16-36.htm">Ezekiel 16:36</a> Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitution with your lovers; and because of all the idols of your abominations, and for the blood of your children, that you gave to them; (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/ezekiel/16-37.htm">Ezekiel 16:37</a> therefore see, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those who you have loved, with all those who you have hated; I will even gather them against you on every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/ezekiel/16-39.htm">Ezekiel 16:39</a> I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your vaulted place, and break down your lofty places; and they shall strip you of your clothes, and take your beautiful jewels; and they shall leave you naked and bare. (See NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/ezekiel/16-41.htm">Ezekiel 16:41</a> They shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women; and I will cause you to cease from playing the prostitute, and you shall also give no hire any more. (See NAS NIV)<a href="/ezekiel/23-5.htm">Ezekiel 23:5</a> Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors, (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/ezekiel/23-8.htm">Ezekiel 23:8</a> And she has not given up her loose ways from the time when she was in Egypt; for when she was young they were her lovers, and by them her young breasts were crushed, and they let loose on her their unclean desire. (BBE)<a href="/ezekiel/23-9.htm">Ezekiel 23:9</a> Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, on whom she doted. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/ezekiel/23-20.htm">Ezekiel 23:20</a> And she was full of desire for her lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of asses and whose seed is like the seed of horses. (BBE NIV)<a href="/ezekiel/23-22.htm">Ezekiel 23:22</a> Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will raise up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them against you on every side: (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/hosea/2-5.htm">Hosea 2:5</a> For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; for she said,'I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.' (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/hosea/2-7.htm">Hosea 2:7</a> She will follow after her lovers, but she won't overtake them; and she will seek them, but won't find them. Then she will say,'I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.' (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/hosea/2-10.htm">Hosea 2:10</a> Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of my hand. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/hosea/2-12.htm">Hosea 2:12</a> I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, about which she has said,'These are my wages that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest,' and the animals of the field shall eat them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/hosea/2-13.htm">Hosea 2:13</a> I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me," says Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/hosea/3-1.htm">Hosea 3:1</a> And the Lord said to me, Give your love again to a woman who has a lover and is false to her husband, even as the Lord has love for the children of Israel, though they are turned to other gods and are lovers of grape-cakes. (BBE YLT)<a href="/hosea/8-9.htm">Hosea 8:9</a> For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/hosea/8-13.htm">Hosea 8:13</a> He gives the offerings of his lovers, and takes the flesh for food; but the Lord has no pleasure in them; now he will keep in mind their evil-doing and give them the punishment of their sins; they will go back to Egypt. (BBE)<a href="/amos/5-15.htm">Amos 5:15</a> Be haters of evil and lovers of good, and let right be done in the public place: it may be that the Lord, the God of armies, will have mercy on the rest of Joseph. (BBE)<a href="/micah/3-2.htm">Micah 3:2</a> You who are haters of good and lovers of evil, pulling off their skin from them and their flesh from their bones; (BBE)<a href="/zechariah/8-19.htm">Zechariah 8:19</a> This is what the Lord of armies has said: The times of going without food in the fourth month and in the fifth and the seventh and the tenth months, will be for the people of Judah times of joy and happy meetings; so be lovers of good faith and of peace. (BBE)<a href="/zechariah/13-6.htm">Zechariah 13:6</a> And 'one' hath said unto him, 'What 'are' these wounds in thy hands?' And he hath said, 'Because I was smitten 'at' home by my lovers.' 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