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 12:9Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
• 3 Jn 1:11Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.
• Ps 97:10You who love Yahweh, hate evil. He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
• Joel 2:14Who knows? He may turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal offering and a drink offering to Yahweh, your God.
• 1 Th 5:21–22Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.
• Mic 5:7–8The remnant of Jacob will be among many peoples, like dew from Yahweh, like showers on the grass, that don’t wait for man, nor wait for the sons of men.
• Rom 8:7because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.
• Mic 5:3Therefore he will abandon them until the time that she who is in labor gives birth. Then the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Israel.
• 1 Kgs 20:31His servants said to him, “See now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Please let us put sackcloth on our bodies, and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel. Maybe he will save your life.”
• Ps 36:4He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.
• 2 Kgs 19:4It may be Yahweh your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’”
• Jonah 3:9Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?”
• Exod 32:30On the next day, Moses said to the people, “You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh. Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin.”
• Amos 5:24But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
• Ps 34:14Depart from evil, and do good. seek peace, and pursue it.
• Jer 7:5–7For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;
• Ps 82:2–4“How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?” Selah.
• Mic 2:12I will surely assemble, Jacob, all of you; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as a flock in the middle of their pasture; they will swarm with people.
• Amos 6:12Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;
• Jer 31:7For Yahweh says, “Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout for the chief of the nations. Publish, praise, and say, ‘Yahweh, save your people, the remnant of Israel!’
• Ps 119:104Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way. NUN
• 2 Kgs 14:26–27For Yahweh saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter; for all, slave and free, and there was no helper for Israel.
• Amos 5:10They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.
• 2 Kgs 13:7For he didn’t leave to Jehoahaz of the people any more than fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria destroyed them, and made them like the dust in threshing.
• Amos 5:6Seek Yahweh, and you will live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.
• Rom 7:15–16For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.
• 2 Sam 16:12It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will repay me good for the cursing of me today.”
• 2 Chr 19:6–11and said to the judges, “Consider what you do, for you don’t judge for man, but for Yahweh; and he is with you in the judgment.
• Ps 37:27Depart from evil, and do good. Live securely forever.
• Rom 7:22For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,
• Ps 139:21–22Yahweh, don’t I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?
• 2 Kgs 15:29In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.

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