Amos 5:12

American Standard Version 2015

For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins—ye that afflict the just, that take a bribe, and that turn aside the needy in the gate {\i from their right}.

Cross References

Amos 5:10

They hate him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

Isaiah 1:23

Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth bribes, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.\par

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 that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the sojourner {\i from his right}, and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.

1 Samuel 8:3

And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.

James 5:6

Ye have condemned, ye have killed the righteous {\i one}; he doth not resist you.\par

James 5:4

Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed them that showed before of the coming of the Righteous One; of whom ye have now become betrayers and murderers;

Micah 7:3

Their hands are upon that which is evil to do it diligently; the prince asketh, and the judge {\i is ready} for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth the evil desire of his soul: thus they weave it together.

Micah 3:11

The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet they lean upon Jehovah, and say, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us.

Amos 2:16

and he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith Jehovah.\par

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 commanded them not; and I am he that knoweth, and am witness, saith Jehovah.\par

Isaiah 66:18

For I {\i know} their works and their thoughts: {\i the time} cometh, 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 children, and widowhood; in their full measure shall they come upon thee, in the multitude of thy sorceries, and the great abundance of thine enchantments.

Isaiah 33:15

He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from taking a bribe, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from looking upon evil:

Isaiah 29:21

that make a man an offender in {\i his} cause, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nought.\par

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

that justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!\par

Proverbs 22:22

Rob not the poor, because he is poor;\par\tab Neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

Job 31:21

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless,\par\tab Because I saw my help in the gate:

Ruth 4:1

Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! 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 are 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 they frame this day, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.

Deuteronomy 16:18

Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, according to thy tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

Psalm 127:5

Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them:\par\tab They shall not be put to shame,\par\tab When they speak with their enemies in the gate.

Proverbs 17:8

A bribe is {\i as} a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it;\par\tab Whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.

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 hast played the harlot, Israel is defiled.

Amos 2:3

and I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith Jehovah.\par

Amos 5:7

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

Amos 8:4

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

Exodus 23:3

neither shalt thou favor a poor man in his cause.

Exodus 23:6

Thou shalt not wrest the justice due to thy poor in his cause.

Job 20:19

For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor;\par\tab He hath violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.\par