Amos 5:15

New American Bible - revised edition

Hate evil and love good, and let justice prevail at the gate; Then it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts, will have pity on the remnant of Joseph.

Cross References

2 Samuel 16:12

Perhaps the Lord will look upon my affliction and repay me with good for the curses he is uttering this day.”

1 Kings 20:31

His servants said to him: “We have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Allow us, therefore, to garb ourselves in sackcloth, with cords around our heads, and go out to the king of Israel. Perhaps he will spare your life.”

2 Kings 13:7

No army was left to Jehoahaz, except fifty horses with ten chariots and ten thousand foot soldiers, since the king of Aram had destroyed them and trampled them like dust.

2 Kings 15:29

In the days of Pekah, king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, came and took Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee—all the land of Naphtali—deporting the inhabitants to Assyria.

2 Kings 19:4

Perhaps the Lord, your God, will hear all the words of the commander, whom his lord, the king of Assyria, sent to taunt the living God, and will rebuke him for the words which the Lord, your God, has heard. So lift up a prayer for the remnant that is here.”

Psalm 119:104

Through your precepts I gain understanding; therefore I hate all false ways.

Psalm 34:14

Keep your tongue from evil, your lips from speaking lies.

Psalm 36:4

Empty and false are the words of his mouth; he has ceased to be wise and do good.

Psalm 37:27

Turn from evil and do good, that you may be settled forever.

Psalm 80:1

For the leader; according to “Lilies.” Eduth. A psalm of Asaph.

Psalm 97:10

You who love the Lord, hate evil, he protects the souls of the faithful, rescues them from the hand of the wicked.

Exodus 32:30

On the next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a grave sin. Now I will go up to the Lord; perhaps I may be able to make atonement for your sin.”

Jeremiah 18:8

but if that nation against whom I have decreed turns from its evil, then I will have a change of heart regarding the evil which I have decreed.

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus says the Lord: Do what is right and just. Rescue the victims from the hand of their oppressors. Do not wrong or oppress the resident alien, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.

Jeremiah 31:7

For thus says the Lord: Shout with joy for Jacob, exult at the head of the nations; proclaim your praise and say: The Lord has saved his people, the remnant of Israel.

Ezekiel 45:9

Thus says the Lord God: Enough, you princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and do what is just and right! Stop evicting my people!—oracle of the Lord God. Weights and Measures.

Daniel 2:49

At Daniel’s request the king made Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego administrators of the province of Babylon, while Daniel himself remained at the king’s court.

Joel 2:14

Perhaps he will again relent and leave behind a blessing, Grain offering and libation for the Lord, your God.

Amos 5:10

They hate those who reprove at the gate and abhor those who speak with integrity;

Amos 5:24

Rather let justice surge like waters, and righteousness like an unfailing stream.

Amos 5:6

Seek the Lord, that you may live, lest he flare up against the house of Joseph like a fire that shall consume the house of Israel, with no one to quench it.

Amos 6:12

Can horses run over rock, or can one plow the sea with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

Amos 7:3

The Lord relented concerning this. “This shall not be,” said the Lord God.

Jonah 1:6

The captain approached him and said, “What are you doing asleep? Get up, call on your god! Perhaps this god will be mindful of us so that we will not perish.”

Jonah 3:9

Who knows? God may again repent and turn from his blazing wrath, so that we will not perish.”

Micah 2:12

I will gather you, Jacob, each and every one, I will assemble all the remnant of Israel; I will group them like a flock in the fold, like a herd in its pasture; the noise of the people will resound.

Micah 3:2

you who hate what is good, and love evil? You who tear their skin from them, and their flesh from their bones;

Micah 5:3

He shall take his place as shepherd by the strength of the Lord, by the majestic name of the Lord, his God; And they shall dwell securely, for now his greatness shall reach to the ends of the earth:

Zephaniah 2:3

Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land, who have observed his law; Seek justice, seek humility; Perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the Lord’s anger.

Malachi 3:18

Then you will again distinguish between the just and the wicked, Between the person who serves God, and the one who does not.

Romans 12:9

Let love be sincere; hate what is evil, hold on to what is good;

Romans 7:22

For I take delight in the law of God, in my inner self,

Romans 8:7

For the concern of the flesh is hostility toward God; it does not submit to the law of God, nor can it;

3 John 1:11

Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does what is good is of God; whoever does what is evil has never seen God.