Amos 5:12

God's Word

I know that your crimes are numerous and your sins are many. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes. You deny the needy access to the courts.

Cross References

Job 20:19

because he crushed and abandoned the poor. He has taken by force a house that he didn’t build.

Job 31:21

If I have shaken my fist at an orphan because I knew that others would back me up in court,

Psalm 127:5

Blessed is the man who has filled his quiver with them. He will not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the city gate.

Exodus 23:3

Never give special favors to poor people in court.

Exodus 23:6

“Never deny justice to poor people in court.

Proverbs 17:8

A bribe seems ⌞like⌟ a jewel to the one who gives it. Wherever he turns, he prospers.

Proverbs 22:22

Do not rob the poor because they are poor or trample on the rights of an oppressed person at the city gate,

Isaiah 1:23

Your rulers are rebels, friends with thieves. They all love bribes and run after gifts. They never defend orphans. They don’t notice the widows’ pleas.

Isaiah 10:2

They deprive the poor of justice. They take away the rights of the needy among my people. They prey on widows and rob orphans.

Isaiah 29:21

those who make people sin with words, those who lay traps for judges, those who, without any reason, deny justice to people who are in the right.

Isaiah 33:15

The person who does what is right and speaks the truth will live. He rejects getting rich by extortion and refuses to take bribes. He refuses to listen to those who are plotting murders. He doesn’t look for evil things to do.

Isaiah 47:9

In one day both of these will happen to you instantly: the loss of your children and your husband. All this will happen to you in spite of your evil magic and your many spells.

Isaiah 5:23

who declare the guilty innocent for a bribe, who take away the rights of righteous people.

Isaiah 66:18

Because of their actions and their thoughts, I am coming to gather the nations of every language. They will come and see my glory.

Jeremiah 29:23

They have done shameful things in Israel. They committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives and spoke lies in my name. I didn’t command them to do this. I know what they have done. I’m a witness, declares the Lord.

Lamentations 3:34

crush any prisoner on earth underfoot,

Ezekiel 13:22

You have discouraged righteous people with your lies, even though I hadn’t brought them any grief. You encouraged wicked people not to turn from their wicked ways to save their lives.

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.

Amos 2:16

Brave soldiers will run away naked that day. The Lord has declared this.

Amos 2:3

I will take their judges away from them. I will kill all their officials at the same time. The Lord has said this.

Amos 5:10

Israel, you hate anyone who speaks out against injustice. You are disgusted by anyone who speaks the truth.

Amos 5:7

You, Israel, turn justice into poison and throw righteousness on the ground.

Amos 8:4

Listen to this, those who trample on the needy and ruin those who are oppressed in the world.

Micah 3:11

Your leaders exchange justice for bribes. Your priests teach for a price. Your prophets tell the future for money. But they rely on the Lord when they say, “After all, the Lord is with us. Nothing bad will happen to us.”

Micah 7:3

Their hands are skilled in doing evil. Officials ask for gifts. Judges accept bribes. Powerful people dictate what they want. So they scheme together.

Malachi 3:5

“I will come to judge you. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers, lying witnesses, and those who cheat workers out of their wages and oppress widows and orphans. I will also testify against those who deprive foreigners of their rights. None of them fear me,” says the Lord of Armies.

Acts 7:52

Was there ever a prophet your ancestors didn’t persecute? They killed those who predicted that a man with God’s approval would come. You have now become the people who betrayed and murdered that man.

Deuteronomy 16:18

Appoint judges and officers for your tribes in every city that the Lord your God is giving you. They are to judge the people fairly.

Deuteronomy 31:21

When many terrible disasters happen to them, this song will testify against them, because it will never be forgotten by their descendants. I know what their hearts are set on doing, even now before I bring them into the land that I swore to give them.”

James 5:4

The wages you refused to pay the people who harvested your fields shout ⌞to God⌟ against you. The Lord of Armies has heard the cries of those who gather the crops.

James 5:6

You have condemned and murdered people who have God’s approval, even though they didn’t resist you.

Ruth 4:1

Boaz went to the city gate and sat there. Just then, the relative about whom he had spoken was passing by. Boaz said, “Please come over here and sit, my friend.” So the man came over and sat down.

1 Samuel 8:3

The sons didn’t follow their father’s example but turned to dishonest ways of making money. They took bribes and denied people justice.