Amos 6:3

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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

Cross References

Psalm 94:20

But you are opposed to dishonest lawmakers

Ecclesiastes 8:11

When we see criminals commit crime after crime without being punished, it makes us want to start a life of crime.

Isaiah 47:7

You thought that you would be queen for ever. You didn't care what you did; it never entered your mind that you might get caught.

Isaiah 56:12

You say to each other, “Let's drink till we're drunk! Tomorrow we'll do it again. We'll really enjoy ourselves.”

Lamentations 4:5

All who ate expensive foods lie starving in the streets; those who grew up in luxury now sit on rubbish heaps.

Ezekiel 12:22

Ezekiel, son of man, you've heard people in Israel use the saying, “Time passes, and prophets are proved wrong.”

Ezekiel 23:42

Their room was always filled with a noisy crowd of drunkards brought in from the desert. These men gave the women bracelets and beautiful crowns,

Amos 3:10

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

Amos 3:9

Here is a message for the leaders of Philistia and Egypt— tell everyone to come together on the hills of Samaria. Let them see the injustice and the lawlessness in that city.

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 5:18

You look forward to the day when the LORD comes to judge. But you are in for trouble! It won't be a time of sunshine; all will be darkness.

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 9:10

Some of you are evil, and you deny that you will ever get caught. But you will be killed.

Micah 6:12

You rich people are violent, and everyone tells lies.

Matthew 24:48

But suppose one of the servants thinks that the master won't return until late.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

People will think they are safe and secure. But destruction will suddenly strike them like the pains of a woman about to give birth. And they won't escape.

2 Peter 3:4

and say, “Didn't your Lord promise to come back? Yet the first leaders have already died, and the world hasn't changed a bit.”

Revelation 18:17

Yet in a single hour her riches disappeared.” Every ship's captain and passenger and sailor stood at a distance, together with everyone who does business by travelling on the sea.