Amos 5:12

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Amos 5:10–14 · Berean Standard Bible

10 There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.

11 Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.

12 For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.

13 Therefore, the prudent keep silent in such times, for the days are evil.

14 Seek good, not evil, so that you may live. And the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be with you, as you have claimed.

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Deuteronomy 31:21

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Isaiah 66:18

“And I, knowing their deeds and thoughts, am coming to gather all nations and tongues, and they will come and see My glory.

Jeremiah 29:23

For they have committed an outrage in Israel by committing adultery with the wives of their neighbors and speaking lies in My name, which I did not command them to do. I am He who knows, and I am a witness, declares the LORD.”

Hebrews 4:12

For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Hebrews 4:13

Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

2 Kings 17:7

All this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other gods

2 Kings 17:8

and walked in the customs of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites, as well as in the practices introduced by the kings of Israel.

2 Kings 17:9

The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city, they built high places in all their cities.

2 Kings 17:10

They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

2 Kings 17:11

They burned incense on all the high places like the nations that the LORD had driven out before them. They did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger.

2 Kings 17:12

They served idols, although the LORD had told them, “You shall not do this thing.”

2 Kings 17:13

Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, “Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets.”

2 Kings 17:14

But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God.

2 Kings 17:15

They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and themselves became worthless, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.

2 Kings 17:16

They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and served Baal.

2 Kings 17:17

They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire and practiced divination and soothsaying. They devoted themselves to doing evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.

Isaiah 47:9

These two things will overtake you in a moment, in a single day: loss of children, and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the potency of your spells.

Amos 2:6

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Amos 2:7

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Amos 2:16

Even the bravest of mighty men will flee naked on that day,” declares the LORD.

Acts 3:13

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Acts 3:14

You rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you.

Acts 7:52

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James 5:4

Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

James 5:6

You have condemned and murdered the righteous, who did not resist you.

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But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside toward dishonest gain, accepting bribes and perverting justice.

Psalms 26:9

Do not take my soul away with sinners, or my life with men of bloodshed,

Psalms 26:10

in whose hands are wicked schemes, whose right hands are full of bribes.

Isaiah 1:23

Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.

Isaiah 33:15

He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against evil—

Micah 3:11

Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster can come upon us.”

Micah 7:3

Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.

Isaiah 10:2

to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.

Isaiah 29:21

those who indict a man with a word, who ensnare the mediator at the gate, and who with false charges deprive the innocent of justice.

Lamentations 3:34

To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,

Malachi 3:5

“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.

Amos 5:10

There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.

Deuteronomy 16:18

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Ruth 4:1

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Job 29:7

When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the public square,

Job 29:8

the young men saw me and withdrew, and the old men rose to their feet.

Job 29:9

The princes refrained from speaking and covered their mouths with their hands.

Job 29:10

The voices of the nobles were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roofs of their mouths.

Job 29:11

For those who heard me called me blessed, and those who saw me commended me,

Job 29:12

because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.

Job 29:13

The dying man blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.

Job 29:14

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; justice was my robe and my turban.

Job 29:15

I served as eyes to the blind and as feet to the lame.

Job 29:16

I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.

Job 29:17

I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.

Job 29:18

So I thought: ‘I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.

Job 29:19

My roots will spread out to the waters, and the dew will rest nightly on my branches.

Job 29:20

My glory is ever new within me, and my bow is renewed in my hand.’

Job 29:21

Men listened to me with expectation, waiting silently for my counsel.

Job 29:22

After my words, they spoke no more; my speech settled on them like dew.

Job 29:23

They waited for me as for rain and drank in my words like spring showers.

Job 29:24

If I smiled at them, they did not believe it; the light of my countenance was precious.

Job 29:25

I chose their course and presided as chief. So I dwelt as a king among his troops, as a comforter of the mourners.

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if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,

Proverbs 22:22

Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate,