Amos 3:2

God's Word

Out of all the families on earth, I have known no one else but you. That is why I am going to punish you for all your sins.

Cross References

Genesis 10:32

These were the families of Noah’s sons listed by their genealogies, nation by nation. From these ⌞descendants⌟ the nations spread over the earth after the flood.

Genesis 18:19

I have chosen him so that he will direct his children and his family after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just. In this way I, the Lord, will do what I have promised Abraham.”

Psalm 147:19

He speaks his word to Jacob, his laws and judicial decisions to Israel.

Exodus 32:34

Now, go! Lead the people to the place I told you about. My Messenger will go ahead of you. But when I punish, I will punish them for their sin.”

Isaiah 63:19

We have become like those whom you never ruled, like those who are not called by your name.

Jeremiah 1:15

I am going to call every family and kingdom from the north,” declares the Lord. “They will come, and they will set up their thrones at the entrance of Jerusalem’s gates. They will attack all the walls around the city and all the cities of Judah.

Jeremiah 10:25

Pour out your fury on the nations who don’t know you and on people who don’t worship you. They have devoured the descendants of Jacob. They have devoured them completely. They have destroyed their homes.

Jeremiah 11:22

This is what the Lord of Armies says: I’m going to punish them. The young men will die because of war. Their sons and daughters will die because of famine.

Jeremiah 13:21

What will you say when God makes the people you thought were your friends your new masters? Won’t pain grip you like a woman in labor?

Jeremiah 14:10

This is what the Lord says about these people: They love to wander. They don’t keep their feet where they belong. So the Lord isn’t happy with them. He will remember their crimes and punish their sins.

Jeremiah 9:25

“The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will punish all who are circumcised.

Ezekiel 5:9

Because of all the detestable things that you do, I will do things to you that I have never done before and will never do again.

Ezekiel 9:6

Kill old men, young men, old women, young women, and children. But don’t come near anyone who has a mark on him. Start with my holy place.” So they started with the old men in front of the temple.

Daniel 9:12

So you did what you said you would do to us and our rulers by bringing a great disaster on us. Nowhere in the world has anything ever happened like what has happened to Jerusalem.

Hosea 2:13

I will punish her for all the times she burned incense as an offering to other gods—the Baals. She put on her rings and jewelry, and she chased after her lovers. She forgot me,” declares the Lord.

Hosea 5:3

I know Ephraim, and Israel isn’t a stranger to me. Now, Ephraim, you are acting like a prostitute, and Israel is unclean.

Hosea 8:13

They offer sacrifices to me and eat the meat of sacrifices, but I, the Lord, do not accept these sacrifices. Now I will remember their wickedness and punish them because of their sins. They will go back to Egypt.

Hosea 9:9

People have deeply corrupted themselves as they once did at Gibeah. God will remember their wickedness and punish them because of their sins.

Amos 2:4

This is what the Lord says: Because Judah has committed three crimes, and now a fourth crime, I will not change my plans. The people of Judah have rejected the Lord’s Teachings and haven’t kept his laws. They have been led astray by false teachings, the same ones their ancestors followed.

Amos 3:3

Do two people ever walk together without meeting first?

Amos 6:1

How horrible it will be for those who are at ease in Zion, for those who feel secure on the mountain of Samaria, and for the heads of the leading nations, to whom the nation of Israel comes.

Micah 2:3

So this is what the Lord says: I’m planning a disaster to punish your family. You won’t be able to rescue yourselves. You will no longer be able to walk proudly. This will be a time of disaster.

Nahum 3:4

because of Nineveh’s constant prostitution, this very charming mistress of evil magic. She used to sell nations her prostitution and people her evil magic.

Acts 17:26

From one man he has made every nation of humanity to live all over the earth. He has given them the seasons of the year and the boundaries within which to live.

Romans 2:9

There will be suffering and distress for every person who does evil, for Jews first and Greeks as well.

1 Corinthians 8:3

But if they love God, they are known by God.

Deuteronomy 10:15

The Lord set his heart on your ancestors and loved them. Because of this, today he chooses you, their descendants, out of all the people of the world.

Deuteronomy 26:18

Today the Lord has declared that you are his people, his own special possession, as he told you. But you must be sure to obey his commands.

Deuteronomy 32:9

But the Lord’s people were his property. Jacob was his own possession.

Deuteronomy 4:32

Search the distant past, long before your time. Start from the very day God created people on earth. Search from one end of heaven to the other. Has anything as great as this ever happened before, or has anything like it ever been heard of?

Deuteronomy 7:6

You are a holy people, who belong to the Lord your God. He chose you to be his own special possession out of all the nations on earth.

1 Peter 4:17

The time has come for the judgment to begin, and it will begin with God’s family. If it starts with us, what will be the end for those who refuse to obey the Good News of God?