Amos 5:10

New Living Translation

How you hate honest judges! How you despise people who tell the truth!

Cross References

1 Kings 18:17

When Ahab saw him, he exclaimed, “So, is it really you, you troublemaker of Israel?”

1 Kings 21:20

“So, my enemy, you have found me!” Ahab exclaimed to Elijah. “Yes,” Elijah answered, “I have come because you have sold yourself to what is evil in the Lord’s sight.

1 Kings 22:8

The king of Israel replied to Jehoshaphat, “There is one more man who could consult the Lord for us, but I hate him. He never prophesies anything but trouble for me! His name is Micaiah son of Imlah.” Jehoshaphat replied, “That’s not the way a king should talk! Let’s hear what he has to say.”

2 Chronicles 25:16

But the king interrupted him and said, “Since when have I made you the king’s counselor? Be quiet now before I have you killed!” So the prophet stopped with this warning: “I know that God has determined to destroy you because you have done this and have refused to accept my counsel.”

2 Chronicles 36:16

But the people mocked these messengers of God and despised their words. They scoffed at the prophets until the Lord’s anger could no longer be restrained and nothing could be done.

Proverbs 15:12

Mockers hate to be corrected, so they stay away from the wise.

Isaiah 29:21

Those who convict the innocent by their false testimony will disappear. A similar fate awaits those who use trickery to pervert justice and who tell lies to destroy the innocent.

Isaiah 59:15

Yes, truth is gone, and anyone who renounces evil is attacked. The Lord looked and was displeased to find there was no justice.

Jeremiah 38:7

But Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, an important court official, heard that Jeremiah was in the cistern. At that time the king was holding court at the Benjamin Gate,

Hosea 4:4

“Don’t point your finger at someone else and try to pass the blame! My complaint, you priests, is with you.

Leviticus 13:10

If the priest finds a white swelling on the skin, and some hair on the spot has turned white, and there is an open sore in the affected area,

Amos 5:15

Hate evil and love what is good; turn your courts into true halls of justice. Perhaps even yet the Lord God of Heaven’s Armies will have mercy on the remnant of his people.

John 15:19

The world would love you as one of its own if you belonged to it, but you are no longer part of the world. I chose you to come out of the world, so it hates you.

John 3:20

All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed.

John 7:7

The world can’t hate you, but it does hate me because I accuse it of doing evil.

Galatians 4:16

Have I now become your enemy because I am telling you the truth?

Revelation 11:10

All the people who belong to this world will gloat over them and give presents to each other to celebrate the death of the two prophets who had tormented them.