Amos 5:15

Bible in Basic English 1965

Be haters of evil and lovers of good, and let right be done in the public place: it may be that the Lord, the God of armies, will have mercy on the rest of Joseph.

Cross References

2 Samuel 16:12

It may be that the Lord will take note of my wrongs, and give me back good in answer to his cursing of me today.

1 Kings 20:31

Then his servants said to him, It is said that the kings of Israel are full of mercy: let us then put on haircloth, and cords on our heads, and go to the king of Israel; it may be that he will give you your life.

2 Kings 13:7

For out of all his army, Jehoahaz had only fifty horsemen and ten carriages and ten thousand footmen; the king of Aram had given them up to destruction, crushing them like dust.

2 Kings 15:29

In the days of Pekah, king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, came and took Ijon and Abel-beth-maacah and Janoah and Kedesh and Hazor and Gilead and Galilee and all the land of Naphtali; and he took the people away to Assyria.

2 Kings 19:4

It may be that the Lord your God will give ear to the words of the Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria, his master, sent to say evil things against the living God, and will make his words come to nothing: so then make your prayer for the rest of the people.

Psalm 119:104

Through your orders I get wisdom; for this reason I am a hater of every false way.

Psalm 34:14

Be turned from evil, and do good; make a search for peace, desiring it with all your heart.

Psalm 36:4

He gives thought to evil on his bed; he takes a way which is not good; he is not a hater of evil.

Psalm 37:27

Be turned from evil, and do good; and your place will be for ever.

Psalm 80:1

To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim-eduth. Of Asaph. A Psalm. Give ear, O Keeper of Israel, guiding Joseph like a flock; you who have your seat on the winged ones, let your glory be seen.

Psalm 97:10

You who are lovers of the Lord, be haters of evil; he keeps the souls of his saints; he takes them out of the hand of sinners.

Exodus 32:30

And on the day after, Moses said to the people, Great has been your sin: but I will go up to the Lord, and see if I may get forgiveness for your sin.

Jeremiah 18:8

If, in that very minute, that nation of which I was talking is turned away from its evil, my purpose of doing evil to them will be changed.

Jeremiah 22:3

This is what the Lord has said: Do what is right, judging uprightly, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away: do no wrong and be not violent to the man from a strange country and the child without a father and the widow, and let not those who have done no wrong be put to death in this place.

Jeremiah 31:7

For the Lord has said, Make a glad song for Jacob and give a cry on the top of the mountains: give the news, give praise, and say, The Lord has given salvation to his people, even to the rest of Israel.

Ezekiel 45:9

This is what the Lord has said: Let this be enough for you, O rulers of Israel: let there be an end of violent behaviour and wasting; do what is right, judging uprightly; let there be no more driving out of my people, says the Lord.

Daniel 2:49

And at Daniel's request, the king gave Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego authority over the business of the land of Babylon: but Daniel was kept near the king's person.

Joel 2:14

May it not be that he will again let his purpose be changed and let a blessing come after him, even a meal offering and a drink offering for the Lord your God?

Amos 5:10

They have hate for him who makes protest against evil in the public place, and he whose words are upright is disgusting to them.

Amos 5:24

But let the right go rolling on like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

Amos 5:6

Go to the Lord for help so that you may have life; for fear that he may come like fire bursting out in the family of Joseph, causing destruction, and there will be no one to put it out in Beth-el.

Amos 6:12

Is it possible for horses to go running on the rock? may the sea be ploughed with oxen? for the right to be turned by you into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into a bitter plant?

Amos 7:3

The Lord, changing his purpose about this, said, It will not be.

Jonah 1:6

And the ship's captain came to him and said to him, What are you doing sleeping? Up! say a prayer to your God, if by chance God will give a thought to us, so that we may not come to destruction.

Jonah 3:9

Who may say that God will not be turned, changing his purpose and turning away from his burning wrath, so that destruction may not overtake us?

Micah 2:12

I will certainly make all of you, O Jacob, come together; I will get together the rest of Israel; I will put them together like the sheep in their circle: like a flock in their green field; they will be full of the noise of men.

Micah 3:2

You who are haters of good and lovers of evil, pulling off their skin from them and their flesh from their bones;

Micah 5:3

For this cause he will give them up till the time when she who is with child has given birth: then the rest of his brothers will come back to the children of Israel.

Zephaniah 2:3

Make search for the Lord, all you quiet ones of the earth, who have done what is right in his eyes; make search for righteousness and a quiet heart: it may be that you will be safely covered in the day of the Lord's wrath.

Malachi 3:18

Then you will again see how the upright man is different from the sinner, and the servant of God from him who is not.

Romans 12:9

Let love be without deceit. Be haters of what is evil; keep your minds fixed on what is good.

Romans 7:22

In my heart I take pleasure in the law of God,

Romans 8:7

Because the mind of the flesh is opposite to God; it is not under the law of God, and is not able to be:

3 John 1:11

My loved one, do not be copying what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God: he who does evil has not seen God.