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Amos 7:12

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Then Amaziah said to Amos, ‘Go away, you seer!  Flee to the land of Judah. Earn your living  and give your prophecies there,

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But the person without the Spirit  does not receive what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated  spiritually.


At that, the whole town went out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they begged him to leave their region.


Formerly in Israel, a man who was going to enquire of God would say, ‘Come, let’s go to the seer,’ for the prophet of today was formerly called the seer.


Shepherd God’s flock among you,  not overseeing  out of compulsion but willingly, as God would have you;  not out of greed for money but eagerly;


because such people do not serve our Lord Christ  but their own appetites.  , They deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting with smooth talk and flattering words.


So they came to appease them, and escorting them from prison, they urged them to leave town.


At that time some Pharisees came and told him, ‘Go, get out of here. Herod  wants to kill you.’


‘I wish one of you would shut the temple doors,  so that you would no longer kindle a useless fire on my altar!  I am not pleased with you,’ says the Lord of Armies, ‘and I will accept  no offering from your hands.


But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets, ‘Do not prophesy.’


You profane me among my people for handfuls of barley  and scraps of bread; you put those to death who should not die and spare those who should not live, when you lie to my people, who listen to lies.


These dogs have fierce appetites; they never have enough. And they are shepherds who have no discernment; all of them turn to their own way, every last one for his own profit.


They say to the seers, ‘Do not see,’ and to the prophets, ‘Do not prophesy the truth to us. Tell us flattering things. Prophesy illusions.


Asa was enraged with the seer and put him in prison  because of his anger over this. And Asa mistreated some of the people at that time.


Anyone who is left in your family will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a loaf of bread. He will say: Please appoint me to some priestly office so I can have a piece of bread to eat.” ’


for Amos has said this: “Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will certainly go into exile from its homeland.” ’





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