Amos 5:15

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Amos 5:13–17 · Berean Standard Bible

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.

15 Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

16 Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.

17 There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,” says the LORD.

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Psalms 34:14

Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

Psalms 36:4

Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.

Psalms 37:27

Turn away from evil and do good, so that you will abide forever.

Psalms 97:10

Hate evil, O you who love the LORD! He preserves the souls of His saints; He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.

Psalms 119:104

I gain understanding from Your precepts; therefore I hate every false way.

Psalms 139:21

Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD, and detest those who rise against You?

Psalms 139:22

I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them as my enemies.

Romans 7:15

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.

Romans 7:16

And if I do what I do not want to do, I admit that the law is good.

Romans 7:22

For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.

Romans 8:7

because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.

Romans 12:9

Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good.

1 Thessalonians 5:21

but test all things. Hold fast to what is good.

1 Thessalonians 5:22

Abstain from every form of evil.

3 John 1:11

Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.

Amos 5:10

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

Amos 5:24

But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

Amos 6:12

“Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—

2 Chronicles 19:6

Then he said to the judges, “Consider carefully what you do, for you are not judging for man, but for the LORD, who is with you when you render judgment.

2 Chronicles 19:7

And now, may the fear of the LORD be upon you. Be careful what you do, for with the LORD our God there is no injustice or partiality or bribery.”

2 Chronicles 19:8

Moreover, Jehoshaphat appointed in Jerusalem some of the Levites, priests, and heads of the Israelite families to judge on behalf of the LORD and to settle disputes. And they lived in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 19:9

He commanded them, saying, “You must serve faithfully and wholeheartedly in the fear of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 19:10

For every dispute that comes before you from your brothers who dwell in their cities—whether it regards bloodshed or some other violation of law, commandments, statutes, or ordinances—you are to warn them, so that they will not incur guilt before the LORD and wrath will not come upon you and your brothers. Do this, and you will not incur guilt.

2 Chronicles 19:11

Note that Amariah, the chief priest, will be over you in all that pertains to the LORD, and Zebadiah son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, in all that pertains to the king. And the Levites will serve as officers before you. Act resolutely; may the LORD be with the upright!”

Psalms 82:2

“How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah

Psalms 82:3

Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.

Psalms 82:4

Rescue the weak and needy; save them from the hand of the wicked.

Jeremiah 7:5

For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,

Jeremiah 7:6

if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,

Jeremiah 7:7

then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.

Exodus 32:30

The next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin. Now I will go up to the LORD; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”

2 Samuel 16:12

Perhaps the LORD will see my affliction and repay me with good for the cursing I receive today.”

1 Kings 20:31

Then the servants of Ben-hadad said to him, “Look now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful. Let us go out to the king of Israel with sackcloth around our waists and ropes around our heads. Perhaps he will spare your life.”

2 Kings 19:4

Perhaps the LORD your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives.”

Joel 2:14

Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him— grain and drink offerings for the LORD your God.

Jonah 3:9

Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His fierce anger, so that we will not perish.”

Amos 5:6

Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.

2 Kings 13:7

Jehoahaz had no army left, except fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers, because the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.

2 Kings 14:26

For the LORD saw that the affliction of the Israelites, both slave and free, was very bitter. There was no one to help Israel,

2 Kings 14:27

and since the LORD had said that He would not blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam son of Jehoash.

2 Kings 15:29

In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, including all the land of Naphtali, and he took the people as captives to Assyria.

Jeremiah 31:7

For this is what the LORD says: “Sing with joy for Jacob; shout for the foremost of the nations! Make your praises heard, and say, ‘O LORD, save Your people, the remnant of Israel!’

Micah 2:12

I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will collect the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in the midst of its pasture— a noisy throng.

Micah 5:3

Therefore Israel will be abandoned until she who is in labor has given birth; then the rest of His brothers will return to the children of Israel.

Micah 5:7

Then the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the LORD, like showers on the grass, which do not wait for man or linger for mankind.

Micah 5:8

Then the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, which tramples and tears as it passes through, with no one to rescue them.