Amos 5:15

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the Lord, the 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 upon my affliction, and that the Lord will repay me with good for this cursing of me today.”

1 Kings 20:31

And his servants said to him, “Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings; let us put sackcloth on our loins and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel; perhaps he will spare your life.”

2 Kings 13:7

For there was not left to Jehoahaz an army of more than fifty horsemen and ten chariots and ten thousand footmen; 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 captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Jan-oah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried the people captive to Assyria.

2 Kings 19:4

It may be that the Lord your God heard all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock 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 thy 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 plots mischief while on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he spurns not evil.

Psalm 37:27

Depart from evil, and do good; so shall you abide for ever.

Psalm 80:1

Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou who leadest Joseph like a flock! Thou who art enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth

Psalm 97:10

The Lord loves those who hate evil; he preserves the lives of his saints; he delivers them from the hand of the wicked.

Exodus 32:30

On the morrow Moses said to the people, “You have sinned a great sin. And now I will go up to the Lord; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”

Jeremiah 18:8

and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will repent of the evil that I intended to do to it.

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus says the Lord: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

Jeremiah 31:7

For thus says the Lord: “Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, and raise shouts for the chief of the nations; proclaim, give praise, and say, ‘The Lord has saved his people, the remnant of Israel.’

Ezekiel 45:9

“Thus says the Lord God: Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and execute justice and righteousness; cease your evictions of my people, says the Lord God.

Daniel 2:49

Daniel made request of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego over the affairs of the province of Babylon; but Daniel remained at the king's court.

Joel 2:14

Who knows whether he will not turn and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, a cereal offering and a drink offering for the Lord, your God?

Amos 5:10

They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks the truth.

Amos 5:24

But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an everflowing stream.

Amos 5:6

Seek the Lord and live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, with none to quench it for Bethel,

Amos 6:12

Do horses run upon rocks? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—

Amos 7:3

The Lord repented concerning this; “It shall not be,” said the Lord.

Jonah 1:6

So the captain came and said to him, “What do you mean, you sleeper? Arise, call upon your god! Perhaps the god will give a thought to us, that we do not perish.”

Jonah 3:9

Who knows, God may yet repent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we perish not?”

Micah 2:12

I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob, I will gather the remnant of Israel; I will set them together like sheep in a fold, like a flock in its pasture, a noisy multitude of men.

Micah 3:2

you who hate the good and love the evil, who tear the skin from off my people, and their flesh from off their bones;

Micah 5:3

Therefore he shall give them up until the time when she who is in travail has brought forth; then the rest of his brethren shall return to the people of Israel.

Zephaniah 2:3

Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land, who do his commands; seek righteousness, seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the wrath of the Lord.

Malachi 3:18

Then once more you shall distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.

Romans 12:9

Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good;

Romans 7:22

For I delight in the law of God, in my inmost self,

Romans 8:7

For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God's law, indeed it cannot;

3 John 1:11

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