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Amos 5:24
Amos 5:24 is verse 24 of Amos chapter 5, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
King James Version
But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
World English Bible
But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
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Amos 5:22–26 · Berean Standard Bible
22 Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.
23 Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
24 But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
25 Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
26 You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Amos 5:7There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.
Amos 5:14Seek good, not evil, so that you may live. And the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be with you, as you have claimed.
Amos 5:15Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
Job 29:12because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.
Job 29:13The dying man blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.
Job 29:14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; justice was my robe and my turban.
Job 29:15I served as eyes to the blind and as feet to the lame.
Job 29:16I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.
Job 29:17I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.
Proverbs 21:3To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.
Hosea 6:6For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
Micah 6:8He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
Mark 12:32“Right, Teacher,” the scribe replied. “You have stated correctly that God is One and there is no other but Him,
Mark 12:33and to love Him with all your heart and with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself, which is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
Mark 12:34When Jesus saw that the man had answered wisely, He said, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And no one dared to question Him any further.