Amos 5:12

A Conservative Version

For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins--ye who afflict the just man, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the gate [from their right].

Cross References

Amos 5:10

They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks uprightly.

Isaiah 1:23

Thy rulers are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They judge not the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come to them.

Malachi 3:5

And I will come near to you to judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the FALSE swearers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the f

1 Samuel 8:3

And his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after dishonest gain, and took bribes, and perverted justice.

James 5:6

Ye have condemned, ye have murdered the righteous man. He is not hostile to you.

James 5:4

Behold the wage of the workmen who reaped your fields. The man who was defrauded by you cries out. And the outcries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of Lord of hosts.

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold about the coming of the Righteous man, of whom ye now have become betrayers and murderers,

Micah 7:3

Their hands are upon that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler asks, and the judge [is ready] for a bribe. And the great man, he utters the evil desire of his soul. Thus they weave it together.

Micah 3:11

The heads of it judge for a bribe, and the priests of it teach for a wage, and the prophets of it divine for money. Yet they lean upon LORD, and say, Is not LORD in the midst of us? No evil shall come upon us.

Amos 2:16

And he who is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, says LORD.

Lamentations 3:34

To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,

Jeremiah 29:23

because they have wrought folly in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I did not command them. And I am he who knows, and am witness, says LORD.

Isaiah 66:18

For I [know] their works and their thoughts. [The time] comes, that I will gather all nations and tongues, and they shall come, and shall see my glory.

Isaiah 47:9

But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day: the loss of sons, and widowhood. In their full measure they shall come upon thee, in the multitude of thy sorceries, and the great abundance of thine enchantments.

Isaiah 33:15

He who walks righteously, and speaks uprightly. He who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands from taking a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking upon evil.

Isaiah 29:21

who make a man an offender in [his] cause, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nothing.

Isaiah 10:2

to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

Isaiah 5:23

who justify the wicked for rewards, and take away the justice of the righteous man from him!

Proverbs 22:22

Do not rob a poor man, because he is poor, nor oppress an afflicted man in the gate.

Job 31:21

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

Ruth 4:1

Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat down there. And, behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by, to whom he said, Such man, stay, turn aside. Sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down.

Deuteronomy 31:21

And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles have come upon them, that this song shall testify before them as a witness, for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed. For I know their imagination which t

Deuteronomy 16:18

Thou shall make judges and officers for thee in all thy gates, which LORD thy God gives thee, according to thy tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

Psalm 127:5

Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They shall not be put to shame when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

Proverbs 17:8

A bribe is a precious stone in the eyes of him who has it; wherever it turns, it prospers.

Ezekiel 13:22

Because with lies ye have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad, and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, and be saved alive.

Hosea 5:3

I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me. For now, O Ephraim, thou have played the harlot; Israel is defiled.

Amos 2:3

And I will cut off the judge from the midst of it, and will kill all the rulers of it with him, says LORD.

Amos 5:7

Ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,

Amos 8:4

Hear this, O ye who would swallow up a needy man, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

Exodus 23:3

neither shall thou favor a poor man in his case.

Exodus 23:6

Thou shall not distort the justice [due] to thy poor in his case.

Job 20:19

For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.