Amos 5:6

Good News Translation

Go to the Lord, and you will live. If you do not go, he will sweep down like fire on the people of Israel. The fire will burn up the people of Bethel, and no one will be able to put it out.

Cross References

2 Samuel 19:20

I know, sir, that I have sinned, and this is why I am the first one from the northern tribes to come and meet Your Majesty today.”

1 Kings 11:28

Jeroboam was an able young man, and when Solomon noticed how hard he worked, he put him in charge of all the forced labor in the territory of the tribes of Manasseh and Ephraim.

2 Chronicles 34:25

They have rejected me and have offered sacrifices to other gods, and so have stirred up my anger by all they have done. My anger is aroused against Jerusalem, and it will not die down.

Psalm 27:8

When you said, “Come worship me,” I answered, “I will come, Lord.”

Psalm 69:33

The Lord listens to those in need and does not forget his people in prison.

Exodus 22:6

“If someone starts a fire in his own field and it spreads through the weeds to someone else's field and burns up grain that is growing or that has been cut and stacked, the one who started the fire is to pay for the damage.

Isaiah 1:31

Just as straw is set on fire by a spark, so powerful people will be destroyed by their own evil deeds, and no one will be able to stop the destruction.

Isaiah 55:3

“Listen now, my people, and come to me; come to me, and you will have life! I will make a lasting covenant with you and give you the blessings I promised to David.

Isaiah 55:6

Turn to the Lord and pray to him, now that he is near.

Jeremiah 38:20

I said, “You will not be handed over to them. I beg you to obey the Lord's message; then all will go well with you, and your life will be spared.

Jeremiah 4:4

Keep your covenant with me, your Lord, and dedicate yourselves to me, you people of Judah and Jerusalem. If you don't, my anger will burn like fire because of the evil things you have done. It will burn, and there will be no one to put it out.”

Jeremiah 7:20

And so I, the Sovereign Lord, will pour out my fierce anger on this Temple. I will pour it out on people and animals alike, and even on the trees and the crops. My anger will be like a fire that no one can put out.

Ezekiel 21:3

that I, the Lord, am saying: I am your enemy. I will draw my sword and kill all of you, good and evil alike.

Ezekiel 33:11

Tell them that as surely as I, the Sovereign Lord, am the living God, I do not enjoy seeing sinners die. I would rather see them stop sinning and live. Israel, stop the evil you are doing. Why do you want to die?

Ezekiel 37:19

tell them that I, the Sovereign Lord, am going to take the stick representing Israel and put it with the one that represents Judah. Out of the two I will make one stick and hold it in my hand.

Amos 3:14

“On the day when I punish the people of Israel for their sins, I will destroy the altars of Bethel. The corners of every altar will be broken off and will fall to the ground.

Amos 5:14

Make it your aim to do what is right, not what is evil, so that you may live. Then the Lord God Almighty really will be with you, as you claim he is.

Amos 5:4

The Lord says to the people of Israel, “Come to me, and you will live.

Amos 6:6

You drink wine by the bowlful and use the finest perfumes, but you do not mourn over the ruin of Israel.

Zephaniah 2:3

Turn to the Lord, all you humble people of the land, who obey his commands. Do what is right, and humble yourselves before the Lord. Perhaps you will escape punishment on the day when the Lord shows his anger.

Zechariah 10:6

“I will make the people of Judah strong; I will rescue the people of Israel. I will have compassion on them and bring them all back home. They will be as though I had never rejected them. I am the Lord their God; I will answer their prayers.

Deuteronomy 32:22

My anger will flame up like fire and burn everything on earth. It will reach to the world below and consume the roots of the mountains.

Deuteronomy 4:24

because the Lord your God is like a flaming fire; he tolerates no rivals.

Joshua 18:5

The land will be divided among them in seven parts; Judah will stay in its territory in the south, and Joseph in its territory in the north.