Amos 5:15

Catholic Public Domain Version

Hate evil and love good, and establish judgment at the gate. Perhaps then the Lord God of hosts may have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.

Cross References

2 Samuel 16:12

Perhaps the Lord may look with favor upon my affliction, and the Lord may repay me good, in place of the cursing of this day."

1 Kings 20:31

And his servants said to him: "Behold, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel show clemency. And so, let us put sackcloth around our waists, and ropes on our heads, and let us go out to the king of Israel. Perhaps he will save our lives."

2 Kings 13:7

And there was left to Jehoahaz from the people nothing but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers. For the king of Syria had killed them, and he had reduced them to become like dust on a threshing floor.

2 Kings 15:29

In the days of Pekah, the king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser, the king of Assyria, arrived and captured Ijon, and Abel Bethmaacah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, and the entire land of Naphtali. And he took them away into Assyria.

2 Kings 19:4

Perhaps the Lord, your God, may hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of the Assyrians, his lord, sent so that he would reproach the living God, and rebuke with words, which the Lord, your God, has heard. And so, offer a prayer on behalf of the remnant that has been found."

Psalm 34:14

Like a neighbor, and like our brother, so did I please; like one mourning and contrite, so was I humbled.

Psalm 36:4

Delight in the Lord, and he will grant to you the petitions of your heart.

Psalm 80:1

Unto the end. For the wine and oil presses. A Psalm of Asaph himself.

Exodus 32:30

Then, when the next day arrived, Moses spoke to the people: "You have sinned the greatest sin. I will ascend to the Lord. Perhaps, in some way, I might be able to entreat him for your wickedness."

Jeremiah 18:8

If that nation, against which I have spoken, will repent from their evil, I too will repent from the evil that I have decided I would do to them.

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus says the Lord: Exercise judgment and justice, and free anyone who is oppressed by violence from the hand of a false accuser. And do not be willing to sadden the new arrival, or the orphan, or the widow, nor should you burden them unfairly. And you shall not shed innocent blood in this place.

Jeremiah 31:7

For thus says the Lord: "Exult in the joy of Jacob, and neigh before the head of the Gentiles. Shout, and sing, and say: 'O Lord, save your people, the remnant of Israel!'

Ezekiel 45:9

Thus says the Lord God: Let this be sufficient for you, O princes of Israel! Cease from iniquity and robberies, and execute judgment and justice. Separate your confines from my people, says the Lord God.

Daniel 2:49

However, Daniel required of the king that he appoint Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego over the works of the province of Babylon. But Daniel himself was at the king's door.

Joel 2:14

Who knows if he might convert and forgive, and bequeath a blessing after him, a sacrifice and a libation to the Lord your God?

Amos 5:10

They held hatred for the one who corrects at the gate, and they have abhorred the one who speaks perfectly.

Amos 5:24

And judgment will be revealed like water, and justice like a mighty torrent.

Amos 5:6

Seek the Lord and live. Otherwise, the house of Joseph may be destroyed with fire, and it will devour, and there will be no one who can extinguish Bethel.

Amos 6:12

For behold, the Lord has commanded, and he will strike the greater house with catastrophes, and the lesser house with divisions.

Amos 7:3

The Lord has been merciful about this. "It will not be," said the Lord.

Jonah 1:6

And the helmsman approached him, and he said to him, "Why are you weighed down with sleep? Rise, call upon your God, so perhaps God will be mindful of us and we might not perish."

Jonah 3:9

Who knows if God may turn and forgive, and may turn away from his furious wrath, so that we might not perish?"

Micah 2:12

I will gather together in a congregation all of you, Jacob. I will lead together as one, the remnant of Israel. I will set them together like a flock in the fold, like a sheep in the midst of the sheep pen. They will cause a tumult before the multitude of men.

Micah 3:2

you who hold hatred for good, and love evil, who violently steal their skins from over them and their flesh from over their bones?

Micah 5:3

Because of this, he will provide for them, even until the time in which she who bears him gives birth. And the remnant of his brothers will be converted to the sons of Israel.

Zephaniah 2:3

Seek the Lord, all you meek of the earth; you who have been working are his judgment. Seek the just, seek the meek. So then, in some way, you might be hidden in the day of the fury of the Lord.

Malachi 3:18

And you shall be converted, and you will see the difference between the just and the impious, and between those who serve God and those who do not serve him.

Romans 12:9

Let love be without falseness: hating evil, clinging to what is good,

Romans 7:22

For I am delighted with the law of God, according to the inner man.

Romans 8:7

And the wisdom of the flesh is inimical to God. For it is not subject to the law of God, nor can it be.

3 John 1:11

Most beloved, do not be willing to imitate what is evil; instead imitate what is good. Whoever does good is of God. Whoever does evil has not seen God.