Amos 2:7

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

They throw the poor to the ground and push aside those who are helpless. My holy name is dishonoured, because fathers and sons sleep with the same young women.

Cross References

1 Kings 21:4

So Ahab went home, angry and depressed because of what Naboth had told him. He lay on his bed, just staring at the wall and refusing to eat a thing.

Proverbs 28:21

It isn't right to be unfair, but some people can be bribed with only a piece of bread.

Isaiah 10:1

You people are in for trouble! You have made cruel and unfair laws

Isaiah 10:2

that let you cheat the poor and needy and rob widows and orphans.

Isaiah 3:14

He will even judge you rulers and leaders of his own nation. You destroyed his vineyard and filled your houses by robbing the poor.

Isaiah 3:15

The LORD All-Powerful says, “You have crushed my people and rubbed in the dust the faces of the poor.”

Ezekiel 22:11

or with someone else's wife. Some men even sleep with their own daughter-in-law or half-sister.

Ezekiel 36:20

Wherever they went, my name was disgraced, because foreigners insulted my people by saying I had forced them out of their own land.

Hosea 4:14

But I won't punish them. You men are to blame, because you go to prostitutes and offer sacrifices with them at pagan shrines. Your own foolishness will lead to your ruin.

Leviticus 18:15

Don't have sex with your daughter-in-law

Leviticus 18:21

Don't sacrifice your children on the altar fires to the god Molech. I am the LORD your God, and that would disgrace me.

Leviticus 18:8

And don't disgrace him by having sex with any of his other wives.

Leviticus 20:3

They have disgraced both the place where I am worshipped and my holy name, and so I will turn against them and no longer let them belong to my people.

Amos 4:1

You women of Samaria are fat cows! You ill-treat and abuse the poor and needy, then you say to your husbands, “Bring us more drinks!”

Amos 5:11

you abuse the poor and demand heavy taxes from them. You have built expensive homes, but you won't enjoy them; you have planted vineyards, but you will get no wine.

Amos 5:12

I am the LORD, and I know your terrible sins. You cheat honest people and take bribes; you rob the poor of justice.

Amos 8:4

You people crush those in need and wipe out the poor.

Micah 2:2

You grab any field or house that you want; you cheat families out of homes and land.

Micah 2:9

You take over lovely homes that belong to the women of my nation. Then you cheat their children out of the inheritance that comes from the LORD.

Zephaniah 3:3

Its officials are roaring lions, its judges are wolves; in the evening they attack, by morning nothing is left.

Romans 2:24

It is just as the Scriptures tell us, “You have made foreigners say insulting things about God.”

1 Corinthians 5:1

I have heard terrible things about some of you. In fact, you are behaving worse than the Gentiles. A man is even sleeping with his own stepmother.