Amos 5:12

Tree of Life Version

For I know your crimes are many and your sins countless— afflicting the righteous, taking bribes, and turning the needy aside at the gate.

Cross References

Job 20:19

For he has oppressed and abandoned the poor. He has seized a house he did not build.

Job 31:21

if I have raised my hand against the orphan, when I saw my support in the gate,

Psalm 127:5

Happy is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they speak with their enemies at the gate.

Exodus 23:3

On the other hand, nor should you takes sides with a poor man in his case.

Exodus 23:6

“You are not to pervert justice to your poor in his dispute.

Proverbs 17:8

A bribe is a charm in the eyes of its owner. Wherever he turns, he succeeds.

Proverbs 22:22

Do not rob a poor person because he is poor, nor crush the needy at the gate,

Isaiah 1:23

Your princes are rebellious and friends with thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and chases after rewards. They do not defend the orphan, nor does a widow’s case come to them.

Isaiah 10:2

to deprive the helpless of justice and rob the rights of the poor of My people, so that widows may be their spoil and orphans their prey!

Isaiah 29:21

Those who make a man out to be guilty with a word, and trap him who reproves at the gate, and deny justice with meaninglessness.

Isaiah 33:15

One who walks righteously, and speaks uprightly, who refuses unjust gain by extortion, who shakes his hands free of bribes, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from looking on evil.

Isaiah 47:9

These two things will come upon you in a moment, in one day— loss of children and widowhood— they will come upon you in full measure in spite of your many sorceries and your many spells.

Isaiah 5:23

who justify the wicked for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of justice!

Isaiah 66:18

“For I know their works and their thoughts. It will come about that I will gather all nations and tongues, and they will come and see My glory.

Jeremiah 29:23

because they have been disgraceful in Israel, committing adultery with their neighbors’ wives and speaking words in My Name falsely, which I did not command them. But I am the One who knows and I am witness.” It is a declaration of Adonai.

Lamentations 3:34

To crush under His foot all the prisoners of the land,

Ezekiel 13:22

Because you have discouraged the hearts of the righteous with your lies, when I have not grieved him; and strengthened the hands of the wicked so he may not return from his wicked way and live,

Hosea 5:3

I myself have known Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me. For now, Ephraim, you are a prostitute— Israel is defiled!

Amos 2:16

The valiant among the warriors will flee naked in that day.” declares Adonai.

Amos 2:3

I will cut off the ruler from her midst, and slay all her princes with him. Thus Adonai has said. As for Judah and Israel

Amos 5:10

They despise one who reproves at the gate, so they detest one who speaks with integrity.

Amos 5:7

You who turn justice to wormwood threw righteousness to the ground.

Amos 8:4

Hear this, you who trample the poor, destroying the afflicted of the land

Micah 3:11

Her leaders give judgment for a bribe. Her priests give direction for a price. Her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean on Adonai by saying: “Is not Adonai in our midst? No calamity will come upon us!”

Micah 7:3

Both hands are diligent at doing evil. The official and the judge ask for a bribe. The distinguished man utters a desire of his soul. Thus they weave it together.

Malachi 3:5

“Then I will draw near to you in judgment, and I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, adulterers, perjurers those who extort a worker’s wage, or oppress the widow or an orphan, those who mislead a stranger. They do not fear Me,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot.

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They killed the ones who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. Now you have become His betrayers and murderers—

Deuteronomy 16:18

“Judges and officers you are to appoint within all your gates that Adonai your God is giving you, according to your tribes; and they are to judge the people with righteous judgment.

Deuteronomy 31:21

Now when many evils and troubles have come on them, this song will confront them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten from the mouth of their descendants. For I know the intention they are devising this day, even before I bring them into the land that I swore.”

James 5:4

Behold, the wages of the workers who mowed your fields—which you kept back by fraud—are crying out against you. And the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

James 5:6

You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous person—he does not resist you.

Ruth 4:1

Meanwhile Boaz had gone up to the gate and sat down there. And all of a sudden, the goel about whom Boaz had spoken passed by. “Come over,” he called, “and sit down here, my friend.” So he came over and sat down.

1 Samuel 8:3

His sons, however, did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after dishonest gain—they took bribes and perverted justice.