Amos 5:12

Other passages that echo Amos 5:12 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

1. Exodus 23:3And do not show favoritism to a poor man in his lawsuit.
2. Exodus 23:6You shall not deny justice to the poor in their lawsuits.
3. Deuteronomy 16:18You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.
4. Deuteronomy 31:21And when many troubles and afflictions have come upon them, this song will testify against them, because it will not be forgotten from the lips of their descendants. For I know their inclination, even before I bring them into the land that I swore to give them.”
5. Ruth 4:1Meanwhile, Boaz went to the gate and sat down there. Soon the kinsman-redeemer of whom he had spoken came along, and Boaz said, “Come over here, my friend, and sit down.” So he went over and sat down.
6. 1 Samuel 8:3But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside toward dishonest gain, accepting bribes and perverting justice.
7. 2 Kings 17:7All this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other gods
8. Job 20:19For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.
9. Job 29:7When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the public square,
10. Job 31:21if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,
11. Psalms 26:9Do not take my soul away with sinners, or my life with men of bloodshed,
12. Proverbs 22:22Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate,
13. Isaiah 1:23Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.
14. Isaiah 5:23who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.
15. Isaiah 10:2to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.
16. Isaiah 29:21those who indict a man with a word, who ensnare the mediator at the gate, and who with false charges deprive the innocent of justice.
17. Isaiah 33:15He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against evil—
18. Isaiah 47:9These two things will overtake you in a moment, in a single day: loss of children, and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the potency of your spells.
19. Isaiah 66:18“And I, knowing their deeds and thoughts, am coming to gather all nations and tongues, and they will come and see My glory.
20. Jeremiah 29:23For they have committed an outrage in Israel by committing adultery with the wives of their neighbors and speaking lies in My name, which I did not command them to do. I am He who knows, and I am a witness, declares the LORD.”
21. Lamentations 3:34To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,
22. Amos 2:6This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Israel, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they sell the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals.
23. Amos 2:16Even the bravest of mighty men will flee naked on that day,” declares the LORD.
24. Amos 5:10There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.

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