Amos 5:15

Modern English Version

Hate evil and love good, and establish justice at the gate. It may then be that the Lord God of Hosts will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

Cross References

2 Samuel 16:12

Perhaps today the Lord will look upon my guilt and return kindness instead of his cursing.”

1 Kings 20:31

His servants said to him, “Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Please let us put sackcloth on our loins and ropes on our heads and go out to the king of Israel. Perhaps he will spare your life.”

2 Kings 13:7

So Jehoahaz had only fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen left, for the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.

2 Kings 15:29

In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel of Beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, Galilee, and all the land of Naphtali, and then exiled them to Assyria.

2 Kings 19:4

Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria, his master, has sent to taunt the living God and will rebuke the words that the Lord your God has heard, and you might lift up a prayer for the remnant that are left.”

Psalm 119:104

Through Your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.

Psalm 34:14

Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

Psalm 36:4

He devises mischief on his bed; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he does not reject evil.

Psalm 37:27

Depart from evil, and do good; so shall you abide forever.

Psalm 80:1

Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, You who lead Joseph like a flock; You who are enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth!

Psalm 97:10

You who love the Lord, hate evil! He preserves the souls of His saints; He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.

Exodus 32:30

On the next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin, and now I will go up to the Lord. Perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”

Jeremiah 18:8

If that nation against which I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I thought to do to it.

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus says the Lord: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver the robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. And do no wrong or violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

Jeremiah 31:7

For thus says the Lord: Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations; proclaim, praise, and say, “O  Lord, save Your people, the remnant of Israel.”

Ezekiel 45:9

Thus says the Lord God: Let it suffice you officials of Israel. Remove violence and destruction, and execute justice and righteousness. Take away your exactions from My people, says the Lord God.

Daniel 2:49

Then Daniel requested of the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego over the affairs of the province of Babylon. But Daniel sat at the court of the king.

Joel 2:14

Who knows? He might turn aside and relent, and He might leave behind a blessing — a grain offering and a food offering for the Lord your God.

Amos 5:10

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

Amos 5:24

But let justice roll down like water, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

Amos 5:6

Seek the Lord and live, or He will break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it will devour Bethel, with no one to quench it.

Amos 6:12

Can horses run on a rocky crag? Can one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

Amos 7:3

The Lord relented concerning this: “It shall not be,” said the Lord.

Jonah 1:6

The captain came to him and said, “What are you doing asleep? Get up, call to your god! Perhaps your god will consider us, so that we will not perish.”

Jonah 3:9

Who knows? God may relent and change His mind. He may turn from His fierce anger, so that we will not perish.”

Micah 2:12

I will indeed assemble Jacob—all of you; I will indeed gather the remnant of Israel. I will place them together like sheep in a fold, like a herd in its pasture— thronging with people.

Micah 3:2

You who hate good and love evil, who tear the skin from My people and the flesh from their bones;

Micah 5:3

Therefore He will give them up, until the time when she who is in labor has given birth, and the rest of his brothers will return to the Israelites.

Zephaniah 2:3

Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land, who carry out His judgment. Seek righteousness, seek humility. Perhaps you will be hidden on the day of the Lord’s anger.

Malachi 3:18

Then you will again discern between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve Him.

Romans 12:9

Let love be without hypocrisy. Hate what is evil. Cling to what is good.

Romans 7:22

For I delight in the law of God according to the inner man,

Romans 8:7

for the carnal mind is hostile toward God, for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can it be,

3 John 1:11

Beloved, do not imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. Whoever does good is from God, but whoever does evil has not seen God.