Amos 5:15 “Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LO…”

Amos 5:15

Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

World English Bible

Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that the LORD, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

American Standard Version

Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish justice in the gate: it may be that Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

Geneva Bible 1599

Hate the euil, and loue the good, and establish iudgement in the gate: it may bee that the Lord God of hostes will be mercifull vnto the remnant of Ioseph.

Darby Translation

Hate evil, and love good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

Young's Literal Translation

Hate evil, and love good, And set up judgment in the gate, It may be Jehovah, God of Hosts, doth pity the remnant of Joseph.

Bible in Basic English

Be haters of evil and lovers of good, and let right be done in the public place: it may be that the Lord, the God of armies, will have mercy on the rest of Joseph.

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Cross references

“Hate”

Romans 12:9 3 John 1:11 Psalm 97:10 Romans 8:7 Psalm 36:4 Psalm 34:14

Romans 12:9 · BSB

Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good.

3 John 1:11 · BSB

Beloved, 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.

Psalm 97:10 · BSB

Hate evil, O you who love the LORD! He preserves the souls of His saints; He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.

Romans 8:7 · BSB

because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.

Psalm 36:4 · BSB

Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.

Psalm 34:14 · BSB

Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

“establish”

Amos 5:24 Amos 5:10 Amos 6:12 2 Chronicles 19:6–11 Psalm 82:2–4 Jeremiah 7:5–7

Amos 5:24 · BSB

But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

Amos 5:10 · BSB

There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.

Amos 6:12 · BSB

“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—

2 Chronicles 19:6–11 · BSB

Then 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.

Psalm 82:2–4 · BSB

“How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah

Jeremiah 7:5–7 · BSB

For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,

“it may”

Joel 2:14 Exodus 32:30 1 Kings 20:31 2 Kings 19:4 Jonah 3:9 2 Samuel 16:12

Joel 2:14 · BSB

Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him— grain and drink offerings for the LORD your God.

Exodus 32:30 · BSB

The 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.”

1 Kings 20:31 · BSB

Then 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. Pe…

2 Kings 19:4 · BSB

Perhaps 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 li…

Jonah 3:9 · BSB

Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His fierce anger, so that we will not perish.”

2 Samuel 16:12 · BSB

Perhaps the LORD will see my affliction and repay me with good for the cursing I receive today.”

“the remnant”

Micah 5:3 Amos 5:6 2 Kings 13:7 Jeremiah 31:7 Micah 2:12 2 Kings 15:29

Micah 5:3 · BSB

Therefore 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.

Amos 5:6 · BSB

Seek 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.

2 Kings 13:7 · BSB

Jehoahaz 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.

Jeremiah 31:7 · BSB

For 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!’

Micah 2:12 · BSB

I 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.

2 Kings 15:29 · BSB

In 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 cap…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

14Seek good, not evil, so that you may live. And the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be with you, as you have claimed.

16Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.

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