Amos 3:10

New Century Version

“The people don’t know how to do what is right,” says the Lord. “Their strong buildings are filled with treasures they took by force from others.”

Cross References

Job 20:21

But nothing will be left for them to eat; their riches will not continue.

Psalm 14:4

Don’t the wicked understand? They destroy my people as if they were eating bread. They do not ask the Lord for help.

Proverbs 1:13

We will take all kinds of valuable things and fill our houses with stolen goods.

Proverbs 11:16

A kind woman gets respect, but cruel men get only wealth.

Proverbs 28:5

Evil people do not understand justice, but those who follow the Lord understand it completely.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Again I saw all the people who were mistreated here on earth. I saw their tears and that they had no one to comfort them. Cruel people had all the power, and there was no one to comfort those they hurt.

Jeremiah 4:22

The Lord says, “My people are foolish. They do not know me. They are stupid children; they don’t understand. They are skillful at doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

Jeremiah 5:4

But I thought, “These are only the poor, foolish people. They have not learned the way of the Lord and what their God wants them to do.

Ezekiel 18:7

He does not mistreat anyone but returns what was given as a promise for a loan. He does not rob other people. He gives bread to the hungry and clothes to those who have none.

Ezekiel 22:29

The people cheat others and steal. They hurt people who are poor and needy. They cheat foreigners and do not treat them fairly.

Ezekiel 8:17

He said to me, “Do you see, human? Is it unimportant that the people of Judah are doing the hateful things they have done here? They have filled the land with violence and made me continually angry. Look, they are insulting me every way they can.

Hosea 7:1

When I heal Israel, Israel’s sin will go away, and so will Samaria’s evil. “They cheat a lot! Thieves break into houses, and robbers are in the streets.

Amos 4:1

Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan on the Mountain of Samaria. You take things from the poor and crush people who are in need. Then you command your husbands, “Bring us something to drink!”

Amos 5:7

You turn justice upside down, and you throw on the ground what is right.

Amos 6:12

Horses do not run on rocks, and people do not plow rocks with oxen. But you have changed fairness into poison; you have changed what is right into a bitter taste.

Amos 6:3

You put off the day of punishment, but you bring near the day when you can do evil to others.

Amos 6:8

The Lord God made this promise; the Lord God All-Powerful says: “I hate the pride of the Israelites, and I hate their strong buildings, so I will let the enemy take the city and everything in it.”

Micah 6:10

Are there still in the wicked house wicked treasures and the cursed false measure?

Zephaniah 1:9

On that day I will punish those who worship Dagon, those who hurt others and tell lies in the temples of their gods.

2 Peter 3:5

But they do not want to remember what happened long ago. By the word of God heaven was made, and the earth was made from water and with water.