Amos 5:12

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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

Cross References

Job 20:19

because they cheated the poor and took their homes.

Job 31:21

If I have ever raised my arm to threaten an orphan when the power was mine,

Psalm 127:5

The more you have, the better off you will be, because they will protect you when your enemies attack with arguments.

Exodus 23:3

And don't favour the poor, simply because they are poor.

Exodus 23:6

Make sure that the poor are given equal justice in court.

Proverbs 17:8

A bribe works miracles like a magic charm that brings good luck.

Proverbs 22:22

Don't take advantage of the poor or cheat them in court.

Isaiah 1:23

Your leaders have rejected me to become friends of crooks; your rulers are looking for gifts and bribes. Widows and orphans never get a fair trial.

Isaiah 10:2

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

Isaiah 29:21

together with everyone who tells lies in court and keeps innocent people from getting a fair trial.

Isaiah 33:15

But there will be rewards for those who live right and tell the truth, for those who refuse to take money by force or accept bribes, for all who hate murder and violent crimes.

Isaiah 47:9

Your magic powers and charms will suddenly fail, then you will be a widow and lose your children.

Isaiah 5:23

You accept bribes to let the guilty go free, and you cheat the innocent out of a fair trial.

Isaiah 66:18

I know everything you do and think! The time has now come to bring together the people of every language and nation and to show them my glory

Lamentations 3:34

Don't trample prisoners under your feet

Ezekiel 13:22

They do things I would never do. They lie to good people and encourage them to do wrong, and they convince the wicked to keep sinning and ruin their lives.

Hosea 5:3

Israel, I know-all about you, and because of your unfaithfulness, I find you unacceptable.

Amos 2:16

You may be brave and strong, but you will run away, stripped naked. I, the LORD, have spoken!

Amos 2:3

with its king and leaders. I, the LORD, have spoken!

Amos 5:10

You people hate judges and honest witnesses;

Amos 5:7

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

Amos 8:4

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

Micah 3:11

You leaders accept bribes for dishonest decisions. You priests and prophets teach and preach, but only for money. Then you say, “The LORD is on our side. No harm will come to us.”

Micah 7:3

People cooperate to commit crime. Judges and leaders demand bribes, and rulers cheat in court.

Malachi 3:5

The LORD All-Powerful said: I'm now on my way to judge you. And I will quickly condemn all who practise witchcraft or cheat in marriage or tell lies in court or rob workers of their pay or ill-treat widows and orphans or steal the property of foreigners or refuse to respect me.

Acts 7:52

Is there one prophet that your ancestors didn't ill-treat? They killed the prophets who told about the coming of the One Who Obeys God. And now you have turned against him and killed him.

Deuteronomy 16:18

After you are settled in the towns that you will receive from the LORD your God, the people in each town must appoint judges and other officers. Those of you who become judges must be completely fair when you make legal decisions, even if someone important is involved. Don't take bribes to give unfair decisions. Bribes keep people who are wise from seeing the truth and turn honest people into liars.

Deuteronomy 31:21

When I punish the Israelites and their descendants with suffering and disasters, I will remind them that they know the words to this song, so they have no excuse for not obeying me. I will give them the land that I promised, but I know the way they are going to live later on.

James 5:4

You refused to pay the people who worked in your fields, and now their unpaid wages are shouting out against you. The Lord All-Powerful has heard the cries of the workers who harvested your crops.

James 5:6

You have condemned and murdered innocent people, who couldn't even fight back.

Ruth 4:1

Meanwhile, Boaz had gone to the meeting place at the town gate and was sitting there when the other close relative came by. So Boaz invited him to come over and sit down, and he did.

1 Samuel 8:3

But they were not like their father. They were dishonest and accepted bribes to give unfair decisions.