Amos 5:15

New King James Version

Hate evil, love good; Establish justice in the gate. It may be that the Lord God of hosts Will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

Cross References

2 Samuel 16:12

It may be that the Lord will look on my affliction, and that the Lord will repay me with good for his cursing this day.”

1 Kings 20:31

Then his servants said to him, “Look now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Please, let us put sackcloth around our waists and ropes around our heads, and go out to the king of Israel; perhaps he will spare your life.”

2 Kings 13:7

For He left of the army of Jehoahaz only fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers; for the king of Syria had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.

2 Kings 15:29

In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maachah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.

2 Kings 19:4

It may be that the Lord your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which the Lord your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’ ”

Psalm 119:104

Through Your precepts I get understanding; Therefore I hate every false way.

Psalm 34:14

Depart from evil and do good; Seek peace and pursue it.

Psalm 36:4

He devises wickedness on his bed; He sets himself in a way that is not good; He does not abhor evil.

Psalm 37:27

Depart from evil, and do good; And dwell forevermore.

Psalm 80:1

Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, You who lead Joseph like a flock; You who dwell between the cherubim, shine forth!

Psalm 97:10

You who love the Lord, hate evil! He preserves the souls of His saints; He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

Exodus 32:30

Now it came to pass on the next day that Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin. So now I will go up to the Lord; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”

Jeremiah 18:8

if that nation against whom I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I thought to bring upon it.

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus says the Lord: “Execute judgment and righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong and do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

Jeremiah 31:7

For thus says the Lord: “Sing with gladness for Jacob, And shout among the chief of the nations; Proclaim, give praise, and say, ‘O Lord, save Your people, The remnant of Israel!’

Ezekiel 45:9

‘Thus says the Lord God: “Enough, O princes of Israel! Remove violence and plundering, execute justice and righteousness, and stop dispossessing My people,” says the Lord God.

Daniel 2:49

Also Daniel petitioned the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego over the affairs of the province of Babylon; but Daniel sat in the gate of the king.

Joel 2:14

Who knows if He will turn and relent, And leave a blessing behind Him— A grain offering and a drink offering For the Lord your God?

Amos 5:10

They hate the one who rebukes in the gate, And they abhor the one who speaks uprightly.

Amos 5:24

But let justice run down like water, And righteousness like a mighty stream.

Amos 5:6

Seek the Lord and live, Lest He break out like fire in the house of Joseph, And devour it, With no one to quench it in Bethel—

Amos 6:12

Do horses run on rocks? Does one plow there with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into gall, And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

Amos 7:3

So the Lord relented concerning this. “It shall not be,” said the Lord.

Jonah 1:6

So the captain came to him, and said to him, “What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God; perhaps your God will consider us, so that we may not perish.”

Jonah 3:9

Who can tell if God will turn and relent, and turn away from His fierce anger, so that we may not perish?

Micah 2:12

“I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob, I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together like sheep of the fold, Like a flock in the midst of their pasture; They shall make a loud noise because of so many people.

Micah 3:2

You who hate good and love evil; Who strip the skin from My people, And the flesh from their bones;

Micah 5:3

Therefore He shall give them up, Until the time that she who is in labor has given birth; Then the remnant of His brethren Shall return to the children of Israel.

Zephaniah 2:3

Seek the Lord, all you meek of the earth, Who have upheld His justice. Seek righteousness, seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden In the day of the Lord’s anger.

Malachi 3:18

Then you shall again discern Between the righteous and the wicked, Between one who serves God And one who does not serve Him.

Romans 12:9

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.

Romans 7:22

For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man.

Romans 8:7

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.

3 John 1:11

Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God, but he who does evil has not seen God.