Amos 5:4

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“For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!”

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BSBPD

“For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“For thus saith the Lord unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“For thus saith Jehovah unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live;”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“For thus said Jehovah to the house of Israel: Seek ye Me, and live,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Amos 5:4 — 23 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Deuteronomy 30:1“When all these things come upon you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God has banished you,
  2. 2 Kings 20:3“Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
  3. 1 Chronicles 28:9As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.
  4. 2 Chronicles 15:2So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.
  5. 2 Chronicles 20:3Jehoshaphat was alarmed and set his face to seek the LORD. And he proclaimed a fast throughout Judah.
  6. 2 Chronicles 20:4So the people of Judah gathered to seek the LORD, and indeed, they came from all the cities of Judah to seek Him.
  7. 2 Chronicles 34:3In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.
  8. Psalms 14:2The LORD looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God.
  9. Psalms 22:26The poor will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the LORD will praise Him. May your hearts live forever!
  10. Psalms 27:8My heart said, “Seek His face.” Your face, O LORD, I will seek.
  11. Psalms 69:32The humble will see and rejoice. You who seek God, let your hearts be revived!
  12. Psalms 69:33For the LORD listens to the needy and does not despise His captive people.
  13. Psalms 105:3Glory in His holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice.
  14. Psalms 105:4Seek out the LORD and His strength; seek His face always.
  15. Isaiah 55:3Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant— My loving devotion promised to David.
  16. Isaiah 55:6Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
  17. Jeremiah 29:12Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
  18. Jeremiah 38:20“They will not hand you over,” Jeremiah replied. “Obey the voice of the LORD in what I am telling you, that it may go well with you and you may live.
  19. Lamentations 3:25The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.
  20. Hosea 10:12Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.
  21. 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.
  22. Zephaniah 2:3Seek the LORD, all you humble of the earth who carry out His justice. Seek righteousness; seek humility. Perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the LORD’s anger.
  23. Matthew 7:8For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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