Amos 5:4

In the midst of judgment God pleads, 'Seek me, and you will live.' Genuine repentance and turning to God is the way to life.

Cross-references · 17

• 2 Chr 15:2and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
• Zeph 2:3Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger.
• Jer 29:12–13You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
• Ps 14:2Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.
• Isa 55:3Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
• Matt 7:8For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
• Isa 55:6–7Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
• Ps 105:3–4Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.
• 1 Chr 28:9You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
• Lam 3:25–26Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
• Deut 30:1–8It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, where Yahweh your God has driven you,
• 2 Chr 20:3Jehoshaphat was alarmed, and set himself to seek to Yahweh. He proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
• Ps 69:32The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.
• 2 Chr 34:3For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images.
• 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.
• Ps 22:26The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise Yahweh who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever.
• Ps 27:8When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.”

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