Amos 2:7

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

They pushed their faces into the ground and walked on them. They stopped listening to suffering people. Fathers and sons had sexual relations with the same woman. They ruined my holy name.

Cross References

Amos 5:12

This is because I know about your many sins. You have done some very bad things: You hurt people who do right, you accept money to do wrong, and you keep the poor from receiving justice in court.

Ezekiel 22:11

One man commits a terrible sin against his own neighbor’s wife. Another man has sex with his daughter-in-law and makes her unclean. Another man rapes his father’s daughter—his very own sister.

Isaiah 10:2

They are not fair to the poor. They take away the rights of the poor and allow people to steal from widows and orphans.

1 Corinthians 5:1

I don’t want to believe what I am hearing—that there is sexual sin among you. And it is such a bad kind of sexual sin that even those who have never known God don’t allow it. People say that a man there has his father’s wife.

Micah 2:9

You have taken nice houses away from the women of my people. You have taken my wealth away from their small children forever.

Micah 2:2

They want fields, so they take them. They want houses, so they take them. They cheat a man and take his house and his land.

Romans 2:24

As the Scriptures say, “People in other nations insult God because of you.”

Zephaniah 3:3

Jerusalem’s leaders are like roaring lions. Her judges are like hungry wolves that come in the evening to attack the sheep—and in the morning nothing is left.

Amos 8:4

Listen to me, you who trample on helpless people. You are trying to destroy the poor of this country.

Amos 4:1

Listen to me, you cows of Bashan on Samaria’s mountain. You hurt the poor and crush those in need. You tell your husbands, “Bring us something to drink!”

Ezekiel 36:20

But even in those other nations, they ruined my good name. How? Those nations said, ‘These are the Lord’s people, but they left his land.’

Proverbs 28:21

It is wrong for a judge to support someone simply because he knows them. But some judges will change their decisions for the price of a loaf of bread.

1 Kings 21:4

So Ahab went home angry and upset because Naboth told him, “I will not give you my family’s land.” Ahab went to bed, turned away from everyone, and refused to eat.

2 Samuel 12:14

But you did things that made the Lord’s enemies lose their respect for him, so your new baby son will die.”

Leviticus 20:3

I will be against them and separate them from their people, because they gave their children to Molech. They showed that they did not respect my holy name. And they made my holy place unclean.

Leviticus 18:15

“You must not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife, so you must not have sexual relations with her.

Leviticus 18:8

You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife, even if she is not your mother, because that is like having sexual relations with your father.

Hosea 4:14

“I cannot blame your daughters or your daughters-in-law for doing this, because your men go and have sex with the temple prostitutes and offer sacrifices with them. This is how foolish people destroy themselves.

Leviticus 18:21

“You must not give any of your children through the fire to Molech. If you do this, you will show that you don’t respect the name of your God. I am the Lord.

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord is ready to present his case against the elders and leaders of his people. He says, “You people have burned the vineyard, and what you stole from the poor is still in your houses.

Isaiah 3:15

What gives you the right to hurt my people? What gives you the right to push the faces of the poor into the dirt?” The Lord GOD All-Powerful said this.

Isaiah 10:1

Just look at those lawmakers who write evil laws and make life hard for the people.

Amos 5:11

You take unfair taxes from the poor. You take loads of wheat from them. You build fancy houses with cut stone, but you will not live in them. You plant beautiful vineyards, but you will not drink the wine from them.