To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
Amos 5:24 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 But let justice roll down like water and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But let justice run down like waters and righteousness as a mighty and ever-flowing stream. American Standard Version (1901) But let justice roll down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. Common English Bible But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. Catholic Public Domain Version And judgment will be revealed like water, and justice like a mighty torrent. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But judgment shall be revealed as water, and justice as a mighty torrent. |
To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
O that you had paid attention to my commandments! Then your prosperity would have been like a river and your success like the waves of the sea;
Thus says the Lord: Act with justice and righteousness and deliver from the hand of the oppressor anyone who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the alien, the orphan, and the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place.
“Thus says the Lord God: Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Cease your evictions of my people, says the Lord God.
For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
Take away from me the noise of your songs; I will not listen to the melody of your harps.
Ah, you who turn justice to wormwood and bring righteousness to the ground!
He has told you, O mortal, what is good, and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice and to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God?