Amos 5:24

Bible in Basic English 1965

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

Cross References

Proverbs 21:3

To do what is right and true is more pleasing to the Lord than an offering.

Isaiah 48:18

If only you had given ear to my orders, then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:

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.

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.

Hosea 6:6

Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings.

Amos 5:23

Take away from me the noise of your songs; my ears are shut to the melody of your instruments.

Amos 5:7

You who make the work of judging a bitter thing, crushing down righteousness to the earth;

Micah 6:8

He has made clear to you, O man, what is good; and what is desired from you by the Lord; only doing what is right, and loving mercy, and walking without pride before your God.