Amos 5:12

New Century Version

I know your many crimes, your terrible sins. You hurt people who do right, you take money to do wrong, and you keep the poor from getting justice in court.

Cross References

Job 20:19

because they troubled the poor and left them with nothing. They have taken houses they did not build.

Job 31:21

I have never hurt an orphan even when I knew I could win in court.

Psalm 127:5

Happy is the man who has his bag full of arrows. They will not be defeated when they fight their enemies at the city gate.

Exodus 23:3

If a poor person is in court, you must not take his side just because he is poor.

Exodus 23:6

“You must not be unfair to a poor person when he is in court.

Proverbs 17:8

Some people think they can pay others to do anything they ask. They think it will work every time.

Proverbs 22:22

Do not abuse poor people because they are poor, and do not take away the rights of the needy in court.

Isaiah 1:23

Your rulers are rebels and friends of thieves. They all accept money for doing wrong, and they are paid to cheat people. They don’t seek justice for the orphans or listen to the widows’ needs.

Isaiah 10:2

They are not fair to the poor, and they rob my people of their rights. They allow people to steal from widows and to take from orphans what really belongs to them.

Isaiah 29:21

those who lie about others in court, those who trap people in court, those who lie and take justice from innocent people in court.

Isaiah 33:15

A person who does what is right and speaks what is right, who refuses to take money unfairly, who refuses to take money to hurt others, who does not listen to plans of murder, who refuses to think about evil—

Isaiah 47:9

Two things will happen to you suddenly, in a single day. You will lose your children and your husband. These things will truly happen to you, in spite of all your magic, in spite of your powerful tricks.

Isaiah 5:23

They take money to set the guilty free and don’t allow good people to be judged fairly.

Isaiah 66:18

“I know they have evil thoughts and do evil things, so I am coming to punish them. I will gather all nations and all people, and they will come together and see my glory.

Jeremiah 29:23

They have done evil things among the people of Israel. They are guilty of adultery with their neighbors’ wives. They have also spoken lies and said those lies were a message from me. I did not tell them to do that. I know what they have done; I am a witness to it,” says the Lord.

Lamentations 3:34

He sees if any prisoner of the earth is crushed under his feet;

Ezekiel 13:22

By your lies you have caused those who did right to be sad, when I did not make them sad. And you have encouraged the wicked not to stop being wicked, which would have saved their lives.

Hosea 5:3

I know all about the people of Israel; what they have done is not hidden from me. Now that Israel acts like a prostitute, it has made itself unclean.

Amos 2:16

At that time even the bravest warriors will run away without their armor,” says the Lord.

Amos 2:3

So I will bring an end to the king of Moab, and I will kill all its leaders with him,” says the Lord.

Amos 5:10

You hate those who speak in court against evil, and you can’t stand those who tell the truth.

Amos 5:7

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

Amos 8:4

Listen to me, you who walk on helpless people, you who are trying to destroy the poor people of this country, saying,

Micah 3:11

Its judges take money to decide who wins in court. Its priests only teach for pay, and its prophets only look into the future when they get paid. But they lean on the Lord and say, “The Lord is here with us, so nothing bad will happen to us.”

Micah 7:3

With both hands they are doing evil. Rulers ask for money, and judges’ decisions are bought for a price. Rich people tell what they want, and they get it.

Malachi 3:5

The Lord All-Powerful says, “Then I will come to you and judge you. I will be quick to testify against those who take part in evil magic, adultery, and lying under oath, those who cheat workers of their pay and who cheat widows and orphans, those who are unfair to foreigners, and those who do not respect me.

Acts 7:52

Your ancestors tried to hurt every prophet who ever lived. Those prophets said long ago that the One who is good would come, but your ancestors killed them. And now you have turned against and killed the One who is good.

Deuteronomy 16:18

Appoint judges and officers for your tribes in every town the Lord your God is giving you; they must judge the people fairly.

Deuteronomy 31:21

Then when many troubles and terrible things happen to them, this song will testify against them, because the song will not be forgotten by their descendants. I know what they plan to do, even before I take them into the land I promised them.”

James 5:4

The pay you did not give the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the workers have been heard by the Lord All-Powerful.

James 5:6

You have judged guilty and then murdered innocent people, who were not against you.

Ruth 4:1

Boaz went to the city gate and sat there until the close relative he had mentioned passed by. Boaz called to him, “Come here, friend, and sit down.” So the man came over and sat down.

1 Samuel 8:3

But Samuel’s sons did not live as he did. They tried to get money dishonestly, and they accepted money secretly to make wrong judgments.