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Hosea 14:4

King James Version (KJV)

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Hosea 14:4

Verse 4 of 9

Scripture focus

I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.

Hosea 14:4 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Hosea 14:4

Theological / Devotional

I will heal. God responds to the penitential prayer. Backsliding is here regarded as a disease. Only the divine Physician can heal the maladies of the soul (see Jer. 8:22; Matt. 9:12).

Backsliding. Heb. meshubah, from the root shub, “to turn,” “to turn back,” hence, “backturning.”

Love them freely. When sins are forgiven and the righteousness of Christ covers the sinner, then, sinful though he may have been, he is accepted before God as if he had never sinned. His past record of sins is in no wise held against him, and God loves him as He loves His own Son (see SC 67).

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