Cross-references Explore similar Bible verses on Hosea 4:7 in English Standard Version "The more they increased, the more they sinned against me; I will change their glory into shame." 1Sa 2:30 Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever,’ but now the Lord declares: ‘Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed. Ho 13:6 but when they had grazed, they became full, they were filled, and their heart was lifted up; therefore they forgot me. Mal 2:9 and so I make you despised and abased before all the people, inasmuch as you do not keep my ways but show partiality in your instruction.”