Amos 5:24

New International Version

But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!

Cross References

Proverbs 21:3

To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

Isaiah 48:18

If only you had paid attention to my commands, your peace would have been like a river, your well-being like the waves of the sea.

Jeremiah 22:3

This is what the Lord says: Do what is just and right. Rescue from the hand of the oppressor the one who has been robbed. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.

Ezekiel 45:9

“ ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: You have gone far enough, princes of Israel! Give up your violence and oppression and do what is just and right. Stop dispossessing my people, declares the Sovereign Lord.

Hosea 6:6

For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings.

Amos 5:23

Away with the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.

Amos 5:7

There are those who turn justice into bitterness and cast righteousness to the ground.

Micah 6:8

He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.