Amos 5:12

Modern English Version

For I know your transgressions are many and your sins are grievous, you who oppress the just, who take a bribe and subvert the needy at the gate.

Cross References

Job 20:19

because he has oppressed and has forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house that he did not build.

Job 31:21

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw I had help in the gate;

Psalm 127:5

Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them; they shall not be ashamed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

Exodus 23:3

You must not show partiality to a poor man in his dispute.

Exodus 23:6

You shall not turn justice away from your poor in his dispute.

Proverbs 17:8

A gift is like a charm in the eyes of him who has it; wherever he turns, he prospers.

Proverbs 22:22

Exploit not the poor, because he is poor, and oppress not the afflicted at the gate,

Isaiah 1:23

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves; everyone loves a bribe and follows after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come before them.

Isaiah 10:2

to turn aside the needy from justice and to take away the right from the poor of My people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

Isaiah 29:21

those who cause a man to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and turn aside the righteous with meaningless arguments.

Isaiah 33:15

He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, he who rejects unjust gain and shakes his hands from holding bribes, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil:

Isaiah 47:9

but these two things shall come to you in a moment, in one day, the loss of children and widowhood. They shall come upon you in their fullness because of the multitude of your sorceries and for the great abundance of your enchantments.

Isaiah 5:23

who justify the wicked for a reward, and take away the justice of the righteous from him!

Isaiah 66:18

For I know their works and their thoughts. The time shall come to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and see My glory.

Jeremiah 29:23

because they have committed folly in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and have spoken lying words in My name, which I have not commanded them. Indeed, I know and am a witness, says the Lord.

Lamentations 3:34

To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the earth,

Ezekiel 13:22

Because with lies you have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad, and strengthened the hands of the wicked that he should not turn from his wicked way and save his life,

Hosea 5:3

I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me; for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore. Israel is defiled.

Amos 2:16

He that is courageous among the warriors will flee away naked on that day, says the Lord.

Amos 2:3

I will cut off the ruler from its midst, and will slay all its princes with him, says the Lord.

Amos 5:10

They hate the one who prosecutes at the gate, and abhor the one who speaks with integrity.

Amos 5:7

You who turn justice into bitterness and cast righteousness down to the ground!

Amos 8:4

Hear this, you who trample on the needy to make the poor of the land fail,

Micah 3:11

Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet upon the Lord they lean, saying, “Is not the Lord in our midst? Evil will not come upon us.”

Micah 7:3

Both hands are upon evil, to do it well. The prince and the judge request the bribe, the powerful asserts the craving of his very soul— they intertwine together.

Malachi 3:5

Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against the perjurers, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who turn aside the stranger, and do not fear Me, says the Lord of Hosts.

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets have your fathers not persecuted? They have even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become the betrayers and murderers,

Deuteronomy 16:18

You must appoint judges and officers in all your gates, which the Lord your God gives you, throughout your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

Deuteronomy 31:21

Then when many disasters and troubles have fallen on them, this song will testify against them as a witness, for it must not be forgotten from the mouths of their descendants. For I know their intention which they are developing even now, before I have brought them into the land which I promised.”

James 5:4

Behold, the wages that you kept back by fraud from the laborers who harvested your fields are crying, and the cries of those who harvested have entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

James 5:6

You have condemned and killed the righteous man who does not resist you.

Ruth 4:1

So Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there. And behold, the redeemer, of whom he had spoken, passed by. So Boaz said, “Come over, friend, and sit here.” So he went over and sat down.

1 Samuel 8:3

But his sons did not walk in his way, for they followed after unlawful gain, and they took bribes, and they perverted justice.