Amos 5:24

Tree of Life Version

But let justice roll like water and righteousness like an ever-flowing torrent.

Cross References

Proverbs 21:3

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Adonai than sacrifice.

Isaiah 48:18

If only you had listened to My commandments! then your peace would be like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus says Adonai: ‘Execute justice and righteousness. Rescue the one who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do not mistreat or do violence to the stranger, the fatherless or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.

Ezekiel 45:9

Thus says Adonai Elohim: “Let it be enough for you, princes of Israel. Get rid of violence and destruction, execute justice and righteousness, take away your oppression from My people”—it is a declaration of Adonai.

Hosea 6:6

For I delight in loyalty and not sacrifice, knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Amos 5:23

Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the melody of your harps.

Amos 5:7

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

Micah 6:8

He has told you, humanity, what is good, and what Adonai is seeking from you: Only to practice justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.