Amos 5:15

God calls them to hate evil, love good, and restore just courts, holding out hope that he may yet be gracious to a remnant. Even amid coming judgment, mercy is offered to the repentant.

Cross-references · 32

• Rom 12:9Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good.
• 3 Jn 1:11Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.
• Ps 97:10Hate evil, O you who love the LORD! He preserves the souls of His saints; He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
• Joel 2:14Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him—grain and drink offerings for the LORD your God.
• 1 Th 5:21–22but test all things. Hold fast to what is good.
• Mic 5:7–8Then the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the LORD, like showers on the grass, which do not wait for man or linger for mankind.
• Rom 8:7because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
• Mic 5:3Therefore Israel will be abandoned until she who is in labor has given birth; then the rest of His brothers will return to the children of Israel.
• 1 Kgs 20:31Then the servants of Ben-hadad said to him, “Look now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful. Let us go out to the king of Israel with sackcloth around our waists and ropes around our heads. Perhaps he will spare your life.”
• Ps 36:4Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.
• 2 Kgs 19:4Perhaps the LORD your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives.”
• Jonah 3:9Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His fierce anger, so that we will not perish.”
• Exod 32:30The next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin. Now I will go up to the LORD; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”
• Amos 5:24But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
• Ps 34:14Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.
• Jer 7:5–7For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,
• Ps 82:2–4“How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah
• Mic 2:12I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will collect the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in the midst of its pasture—a noisy throng.
• Amos 6:12“Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—
• Jer 31:7For this is what the LORD says: “Sing with joy for Jacob; shout for the foremost of the nations! Make your praises heard, and say, ‘O LORD, save Your people, the remnant of Israel!’
• Ps 119:104I gain understanding from Your precepts; therefore I hate every false way.
• 2 Kgs 14:26–27For the LORD saw that the affliction of the Israelites, both slave and free, was very bitter. There was no one to help Israel,
• Amos 5:10There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.
• 2 Kgs 13:7Jehoahaz had no army left, except fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers, because the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.
• Amos 5:6Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.
• Rom 7:15–16I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.
• 2 Sam 16:12Perhaps the LORD will see my affliction and repay me with good for the cursing I receive today.”
• 2 Chr 19:6–11Then he said to the judges, “Consider carefully what you do, for you are not judging for man, but for the LORD, who is with you when you render judgment.
• Ps 37:27Turn away from evil and do good, so that you will abide forever.
• Rom 7:22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
• Ps 139:21–22Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD, and detest those who rise against You?
• 2 Kgs 15:29In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, including all the land of Naphtali, and he took the people as captives to Assyria.

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