Amos 3:2

New American Bible - revised edition

You alone I have known, among all the families of the earth; Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 7:6

For you are a people holy to the Lord, your God; the Lord, your God, has chosen you from all the peoples on the face of the earth to be a people specially his own.

1 Peter 4:17

For it is time for the judgment to begin with the household of God; if it begins with us, how will it end for those who fail to obey the gospel of God?

Deuteronomy 10:15

Yet only on your ancestors did the Lord set his heart to love them. He chose you, their descendants, from all the peoples, as it is today.

Romans 2:9

Yes, affliction and distress will come upon every human being who does evil, Jew first and then Greek.

Daniel 9:12

He fulfilled the words he spoke against us and against those who ruled us, by bringing upon us an evil—no evil so great has happened under heaven as happened in Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 9:6

Old and young, male and female, women and children—wipe them out! But do not touch anyone marked with the X. Begin at my sanctuary. So they began with the elders who were in front of the temple.

Jeremiah 14:10

Thus says the Lord about this people: They so love to wander that they cannot restrain their feet. The Lord takes no pleasure in them; now he remembers their guilt, and will punish their sins.

Jeremiah 13:21

What will you say when rulers are appointed over you, those you taught to be allies? Will not pains seize you like those of a woman giving birth?

Jeremiah 11:22

Therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: I am going to punish them. The young men shall die by the sword; their sons and daughters shall die by famine.

Jeremiah 10:25

Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not know you, on the tribes that do not call your name; For they have utterly devoured Jacob, and laid waste his home.

Jeremiah 9:25

Egypt and Judah, Edom and the Ammonites, Moab, and those who live in the wilderness and shave their temples. For all the nations are uncircumcised, even the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised at heart.

Jeremiah 1:15

Look, I am summoning all the kingdoms of the north—oracle of the Lord— Each king shall come and set up his throne in the gateways of Jerusalem, Against all its surrounding walls and against all the cities of Judah.

Isaiah 63:19

Too long have we been like those you do not rule, on whom your name is not invoked. Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, with the mountains quaking before you,

Psalm 147:19

He proclaims his word to Jacob, his statutes and laws to Israel.

Deuteronomy 26:18

And today the Lord has accepted your agreement: you will be a people specially his own, as he promised you, you will keep all his commandments,

Genesis 10:32

These are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their origins and by their nations. From these the nations of the earth branched out after the flood.

Acts 17:26

He made from one the whole human race to dwell on the entire surface of the earth, and he fixed the ordered seasons and the boundaries of their regions,

Nahum 3:4

For the many debaucheries of the prostitute, a charming mistress of witchcraft, Who enslaved nations with her prostitution, and peoples by her witchcraft:

Hosea 9:9

They have sunk to the depths of corruption, as in the days of Gibeah; God will remember their iniquity and punish their sins.

Hosea 8:13

They love sacrifice, they sacrifice meat and eat it, but the Lord is not pleased with them. Now he will remember their guilt and punish their sins; they shall return to Egypt.

Hosea 2:13

I will put an end to all her joy, her festivals, her new moons, her sabbaths— all her seasonal feasts.

Deuteronomy 32:9

But the Lord’s portion was his people; his allotted share was Jacob.

1 Corinthians 8:3

But if one loves God, one is known by him.

Genesis 18:19

Indeed, I have singled him out that he may direct his children and his household in the future to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just, so that the Lord may put into effect for Abraham the promises he made about him.

Deuteronomy 4:32

Ask now of the days of old, before your time, ever since God created humankind upon the earth; ask from one end of the sky to the other: Did anything so great ever happen before? Was it ever heard of?

Ezekiel 5:9

Because of all your abominations I will do to you what I have never done before, the like of which I will never do again.

Hosea 5:3

I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me: Now, Ephraim, you have practiced prostitution, Israel is defiled.

Amos 2:4

Thus says the Lord: For three crimes of Judah, and now four— I will not take it back— Because they spurned the instruction of the Lord, and did not keep his statutes; Because the lies which their ancestors followed have led them astray,

Amos 3:3

Do two journey together unless they have agreed?

Amos 6:1

Woe to those who are complacent in Zion, secure on the mount of Samaria, Leaders of the first among nations, to whom the people of Israel turn.

Micah 2:3

Therefore thus says the Lord: Look, I am planning against this family an evil from which you cannot free your necks; Nor shall you walk with head held high, for it will be an evil time.

Exodus 32:34

Now, go and lead the people where I have told you. See, my angel will go before you. When it is time for me to punish, I will punish them for their sin.