Amos 5:12 Cross References

Amos 5:12

12: For I know the vast number of your sins and rebellions. You oppress good people by taking bribes and deprive the poor of justice in the courts.

Amos 5:10

  1. How you hate honest judges! How you despise people who tell the truth!

Amos 2:6

  1. This is what the LORD says: "The people of Israel have sinned again and again, and I will not forget it. I will not let them go unpunished any longer! They have perverted justice by selling honest people for silver and poor people for a pair of sandals.
  2. They trample helpless people in the dust and deny justice to those who are oppressed. Both father and son sleep with the same woman, corrupting my holy name.

Isaiah 29:21

  1. Those who make the innocent guilty by their false testimony will disappear. And those who use trickery to pervert justice and tell lies to tear down the innocent will be no more.

1 Samuel 8:3

  1. But they were not like their father, for they were greedy for money. They accepted bribes and perverted justice.

Isaiah 1:23

  1. Your leaders are rebels, the companions of thieves. All of them take bribes and refuse to defend the orphans and the widows.

Amos 2:16

  1. On that day, the most courageous of your fighting men will drop their weapons and run for their lives. I, the LORD, have spoken!"

Micah 7:3

  1. They go about their evil deeds with both hands. How skilled they are at using them! Officials and judges alike demand bribes. The people with money and influence pay them off, and together they scheme to twist justice.

Isaiah 10:2

  1. They deprive the poor, the widows, and the orphans of justice. Yes, they rob widows and fatherless children!

James 5:6

  1. You have condemned and killed good people who had no power to defend themselves against you.

James 5:4

  1. For listen! Hear the cries of the field workers whom you have cheated of their pay. The wages you held back cry out against you. The cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.

Isaiah 66:18

  1. "I can see what they are doing, and I know what they are thinking. So I will gather all nations and peoples together, and they will see my glory.

Isaiah 33:15

  1. The ones who can live here are those who are honest and fair, who reject making a profit by fraud, who stay far away from bribes, who refuse to listen to those who plot murder, who shut their eyes to all enticement to do wrong.

Acts 3:13

  1. For it is the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of all our ancestors who has brought glory to his servant Jesus by doing this. This is the same Jesus whom you handed over and rejected before Pilate, despite Pilate's decision to release him.
  2. You rejected this holy, righteous one and instead demanded the release of a murderer.

Micah 3:11

  1. You rulers govern for the bribes you can get; you priests teach God's laws only for a price; you prophets won't prophesy unless you are paid. Yet all of you claim you are depending on the LORD. "No harm can come to us," you say, "for the LORD is here among us."

Isaiah 47:9

  1. Well, those two things will come upon you in a moment: widowhood and the loss of your children. Yes, these calamities will come upon you, despite all your witchcraft and magic.

Deuteronomy 16:18

  1. "Appoint judges and officials for each of your tribes in all the towns the LORD your God is giving you. They will judge the people fairly throughout the land.

Job 29:7

  1. "Those were the days when I went to the city gate and took my place among the honored leaders.
  2. The young stepped aside when they saw me, and even the aged rose in respect at my coming.
  3. The princes stood in silence and put their hands over their mouths.
  4. The highest officials of the city stood quietly, holding their tongues in respect.
  5. "All who heard of me praised me. All who saw me spoke well of me.

Isaiah 5:23

  1. They take bribes to pervert justice. They let the wicked go free while punishing the innocent.

Psalms 26:9

  1. Don't let me suffer the fate of sinners. Don't condemn me along with murderers.
  2. Their hands are dirty with wicked schemes, and they constantly take bribes.

Ruth 4:1

  1. So Boaz went to the town gate and took a seat there. When the family redeemer he had mentioned came by, Boaz called out to him, "Come over here, friend. I want to talk to you." So they sat down together.

Malachi 3:5

  1. At that time I will put you on trial. I will be a ready witness against all sorcerers and adulterers and liars. I will speak against those who cheat employees of their wages, who oppress widows and orphans, or who deprive the foreigners living among you of justice, for these people do not fear me," says the LORD Almighty.

Lamentations 3:34

  1. But the leaders of his people trampled prisoners underfoot.

Acts 7:52

  1. Name one prophet your ancestors didn't persecute! They even killed the ones who predicted the coming of the Righteous One--the Messiah whom you betrayed and murdered.

2 Kings 17:7

  1. This disaster came upon the nation of Israel because the people worshiped other gods, sinning against the LORD their God, who had brought them safely out of their slavery in Egypt.
  2. They had imitated the practices of the pagan nations the LORD had driven from the land before them, as well as the practices the kings of Israel had introduced.
  3. The people of Israel had also secretly done many things that were not pleasing to the LORD their God. They built pagan shrines for themselves in all their towns, from the smallest outpost to the largest walled city.
  4. They set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles at the top of every hill and under every green tree.
  5. They burned incense at the shrines, just like the nations the LORD had driven from the land ahead of them. So the people of Israel had done many evil things, arousing the LORD's anger.

Hebrews 4:12

  1. For the word of God is full of living power. It is sharper than the sharpest knife, cutting deep into our innermost thoughts and desires. It exposes us for what we really are.
  2. Nothing in all creation can hide from him. Everything is naked and exposed before his eyes. This is the God to whom we must explain all that we have done.

Deuteronomy 31:21

  1. Then great disasters will come down on them, and this song will stand as evidence against them, for it will never be forgotten by their descendants. I know what these people are like, even before they have entered the land I swore to give them."

Proverbs 22:22

  1. Do not rob the poor because they are poor or exploit the needy in court.

Job 31:21

  1. If my arm has abused an orphan because I thought I could get away with it,

Jeremiah 29:23

  1. For these men have done terrible things among my people. They have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives and have lied in my name. I am a witness to this," says the LORD.
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