Amos 3:10

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

The LORD has said that they don't even know how to do right. They have become rich from violence and robbery.

Cross References

Job 20:21

But when nothing remains for them to grab, they will be nothing.

Psalm 14:4

Won't you evil people learn? You refuse to pray, and you gobble up the LORD's people.

Proverbs 1:13

We'll take their valuables and fill our homes with stolen goods.

Proverbs 11:16

A gracious woman will be respected, but a man must work hard to get rich.

Proverbs 28:5

Criminals don't know what justice means, but all who respect the LORD understand it completely.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

I looked again and saw people being ill-treated everywhere on earth. They were crying, but no one was there to offer comfort, and those who ill-treated them were powerful.

Jeremiah 4:22

I heard the LORD say, “My people ignore me. They are foolish children who do not understand that they will be punished. All they know is how to sin.”

Jeremiah 5:4

Then I thought to myself, “These common people act like fools, and they have never learnt what the LORD their God demands of them.

Ezekiel 18:7

He never cheats or robs anyone and always returns anything taken as security for a loan; he gives food and clothes to the poor

Ezekiel 22:29

The people themselves cheat and rob; they abuse the poor and take advantage of foreigners.

Ezekiel 8:17

God said, “Ezekiel, it's bad enough that the people of Judah are doing these disgusting things. But they have also spread violence and injustice everywhere in Israel and have made me very angry. They have disgraced and insulted me in the worst possible way.

Hosea 7:1

and to heal its wounds. But then I see the crimes in Israel and Samaria. Everyone is deceitful; robbers roam the streets.

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 5:7

You people are doomed! You twist the truth and trample on justice.

Amos 6:12

Horses can't gallop on rocks; oceans can't be ploughed. But you have turned justice and fairness into bitter poison.

Amos 6:3

You are cruel, and you forget the coming day of judgment.

Amos 6:8

The LORD God All-Powerful has sworn by his own name: “You descendants of Jacob make me angry by your pride, and I hate your fortresses. And so I will surrender your city and possessions to your enemies.”

Micah 6:10

You store up stolen treasures and use dishonest scales.

Zephaniah 1:9

I will punish worshippers of pagan gods and cruel palace officials who abuse their power.

2 Peter 3:5

They will say this because they want to forget that long ago the heavens and the earth were made at God's command. The earth came out of water and was made from water.