Amos 5:4

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Amos 5:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible

2 “Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.”

3 This is what the Lord GOD says: “The city that marches out a thousand strong will only see a hundred return, and the one that marches out a hundred strong will have but ten left in the house of Israel.”

4 For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!

5 Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.

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.

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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.

Deuteronomy 30:1

“When all these things come upon you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God has banished you,

Deuteronomy 30:2

and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything I am giving you today,

Deuteronomy 30:3

then He will restore you from captivity and have compassion on you and gather you from all the nations to which the LORD your God has scattered you.

Deuteronomy 30:4

Even if you have been banished to the farthest horizon, He will gather you and return you from there.

Deuteronomy 30:5

And the LORD your God will bring you into the land your fathers possessed, and you will take possession of it. He will cause you to prosper and multiply more than your fathers.

Deuteronomy 30:6

The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.

Deuteronomy 30:7

Then the LORD your God will put all these curses upon your enemies who hate you and persecute you.

Deuteronomy 30:8

And you will again obey the voice of the LORD and follow all His commandments I am giving you today.

1 Chronicles 28:9

As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.

2 Chronicles 15:2

So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.

2 Chronicles 20:3

Jehoshaphat was alarmed and set his face to seek the LORD. And he proclaimed a fast throughout Judah.

2 Chronicles 34:3

In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.

Psalms 14:2

The LORD looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God.

Psalms 27:8

My heart said, “Seek His face.” Your face, O LORD, I will seek.

Isaiah 55:6

Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.

Isaiah 55:7

Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.

Jeremiah 29:12

Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

Jeremiah 29:13

You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.

Lamentations 3:25

The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.

Lamentations 3:26

It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.

Zephaniah 2:3

Seek the LORD, all you humble of the earth who carry out His justice. Seek righteousness; seek humility. Perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the LORD’s anger.

Matthew 7:8

For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.

Psalms 22:26

The poor will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the LORD will praise Him. May your hearts live forever!

Psalms 69:32

The humble will see and rejoice. You who seek God, let your hearts be revived!

Psalms 105:3

Glory in His holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice.

Psalms 105:4

Seek out the LORD and His strength; seek His face always.

Isaiah 55:3

Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant— My loving devotion promised to David.