Amos 5:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Go after good and not evil, so that life may be yours: and so the Lord, the God of armies, will be with you, as you say.

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Referenced Verses

  • Josh 1:9 : 9 Have I not given you your orders? Take heart and be strong; have no fear and do not be troubled; for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go,
  • Mic 3:11 : 11 Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us.
  • Phil 4:8-9 : 8 For the rest, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things have honour, whatever things are upright, whatever things are holy, whatever things are beautiful, whatever things are of value, if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, give thought to these things. 9 The things which came to you by my teaching and preaching, and which you saw in me, these things do, and the God of peace will be with you.
  • Amos 3:3 : 3 Is it possible for two to go walking together, if not by agreement?
  • 1 Chr 28:20 : 20 And David said to his son Solomon, Be strong and of a good heart and do your work; have no fear and do not be troubled, for the Lord God, my God, is with you; he will not give you up, and his face will not be turned away from you, till all the work necessary for the house of the Lord is complete.
  • 2 Chr 15:2 : 2 And he came face to face with Asa and said to him, Give ear to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin: the Lord is with you while you are with him; if your heart's desire is for him, he will be near you, but if you give him up, he will give you up.
  • Ps 34:12-16 : 12 What man has a love of life, and a desire that his days may be increased so that he may see good? 13 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from words of deceit. 14 Be turned from evil, and do good; make a search for peace, desiring it with all your heart. 15 The eyes of the Lord are on the upright, and his ears are open to their cry. 16 The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to take away the memory of them from the earth.
  • Ps 46:11 : 11 The Lord of armies is with us; the God of Jacob is our high tower. (Selah.)
  • Prov 11:27 : 27 He who, with all his heart, goes after what is good is searching for grace; but he who is looking for trouble will get it.
  • Isa 1:16-17 : 16 Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning; 17 Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow.
  • Isa 8:10 : 10 Let your designs be formed, and they will come to nothing; give your orders, and they will not be effected: for God is with us.
  • Isa 48:1-2 : 1 Give ear to this, O family of Jacob, you who are named by the name of Israel, and have come out of the body of Judah; who take oaths by the name of the Lord, and make use of the name of the God of Israel, but not truly and not in good faith. 2 For they say that they are of the holy town, and put their faith in the God of Israel: the Lord of armies is his name.
  • Isa 55:2 : 2 Why do you give your money for what is not bread, and the fruit of your work for what will not give you pleasure? Give ear to me, so that your food may be good, and you may have the best in full measure.
  • Jer 7:3-4 : 3 The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, says, Let your ways and your doings be changed for the better and I will let you go on living in this place. 4 Put no faith in false words, saying, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, are these.
  • Mic 6:8 : 8 He has made clear to you, O man, what is good; and what is desired from you by the Lord; only doing what is right, and loving mercy, and walking without pride before your God.
  • Matt 1:23 : 23 See, the virgin will be with child, and will give birth to a son, and they will give him the name Immanuel, that is, God with us.
  • Matt 6:33 : 33 But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.
  • Gen 39:2-3 : 2 And the Lord was with Joseph, and he did well; and he was living in the house of his master the Egyptian. 3 And his master saw that the Lord was with him, making everything he did go well.
  • Gen 39:23 : 23 And the keeper of the prison gave no attention to anything which was under his care, because the Lord was with him; and the Lord made everything he did go well.
  • Exod 3:12 : 12 And he said, Truly I will be with you; and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: when you have taken the children of Israel out of Egypt, you will give worship to God on this mountain.
  • Num 16:3 : 3 They came together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, You take overmuch on yourselves, seeing that all the people are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them; why then have you put yourselves in authority over the people of the Lord?
  • Rom 2:7-9 : 7 To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life: 8 But to those who, from a love of competition, are not guided by what is true, will come the heat of his wrath, 9 Trouble and sorrow on all whose works are evil, to the Jew first and then to the Greek;
  • 2 Tim 4:22 : 22 The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you.
  • Matt 28:20 : 20 Teaching them to keep all the rules which I have given you: and see, I am ever with you, even to the end of the world.

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  • Amos 5:15-16
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    85%

    15 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.

    16 So these are the words of the Lord, the God of armies, the Lord: There will be weeping in all the open spaces; and in all the streets they will say, Sorrow! sorrow! and they will get in the farmer to the weeping, and the makers of sad songs to give cries of grief.

  • Ps 34:13-14
    2 verses
    78%

    13 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from words of deceit.

    14 Be turned from evil, and do good; make a search for peace, desiring it with all your heart.

  • Amos 5:4-7
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    78%

    4 For these are the words of the Lord to the children of Israel: Let your hearts be turned to me, so that you may have life:

    5 Do not be looking for help to Beth-el, and do not go to Gilgal, or make your way to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal will certainly be taken prisoner, and Beth-el will come to nothing.

    6 Go to the Lord for help so that you may have life; for fear that he may come like fire bursting out in the family of Joseph, causing destruction, and there will be no one to put it out in Beth-el.

    7 You who make the work of judging a bitter thing, crushing down righteousness to the earth;

  • 1 Pet 3:10-11
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    76%

    10 For it is said, Let the man who has a love of life, desiring to see good days, keep his tongue from evil and his lips from words of deceit:

    11 And let him be turned from evil and do good; searching for peace and going after it with all his heart.

  • Amos 5:13
    74%

    13 So the wise will say nothing in that time; for it is an evil time.

  • Ps 37:27
    73%

    27 Be turned from evil, and do good; and your place will be for ever.

  • Jer 18:11
    72%

    11 Now, then, say to the men of Judah and to the people of Jerusalem, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am forming an evil thing against you, and designing a design against you: let every man come back now from his evil way, and let your ways and your doings be changed for the better.

  • Zech 8:15-18
    4 verses
    72%

    15 So in these days it is again my purpose to do good to Jerusalem and to the children of Judah: have no fear.

    16 These are the things which you are to do: Let every man say what is true to his neighbour; and let your judging give peace in your towns.

    17 Let no one have any evil thought in his heart against his neighbour; and have no love for false oaths: for all these things are hated by me, says the Lord.

    18 And the word of the Lord of armies came to me, saying,

  • Zeph 2:3
    72%

    3 Make search for the Lord, all you quiet ones of the earth, who have done what is right in his eyes; make search for righteousness and a quiet heart: it may be that you will be safely covered in the day of the Lord's wrath.

  • Jer 45:5
    71%

    5 And as for you, are you looking for great things for yourself? Have no desire for them: for truly I will send evil on all flesh, says the Lord: but your life I will keep safe from attack wherever you go.

  • Prov 11:27
    71%

    27 He who, with all his heart, goes after what is good is searching for grace; but he who is looking for trouble will get it.

  • Isa 1:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16 Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;

    17 Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow.

  • Jer 25:5
    71%

    5 Saying, Come back now, everyone from his evil way and from the evil of your doings, and keep your place in the land which the Lord has given to you and to your fathers, from times long past even for ever:

  • Jer 7:3
    71%

    3 The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, says, Let your ways and your doings be changed for the better and I will let you go on living in this place.

  • Jer 7:5
    71%

    5 For if your ways and your doings are truly changed for the better; if you truly give right decisions between a man and his neighbour;

  • Ps 125:4
    70%

    4 Do good, O Lord, to those who are good, and to those who are upright in heart.

  • Zeph 3:15
    70%

    15 The Lord has taken away those who were judging you, he has sent your haters far away: the King of Israel, even the Lord, is among you: you will have no more fear of evil.

  • 1 Thess 5:15
    70%

    15 Let no one give evil for evil; but ever go after what is good, for one another and for all.

  • Hag 1:5
    70%

    5 For this cause the Lord of armies has said, Give thought to your ways.

  • Zech 7:10
    70%

    10 Do not be hard on the widow, or the child without a father, on the man from a strange country, or on the poor; let there be no evil thought in your heart against your brother.

  • Jer 26:13
    69%

    13 So now, make a change for the better in your ways and your doings, and give ear to the voice of the Lord your God; then the Lord will let himself be turned from the decision he has made against you for evil.

  • Hag 1:7
    69%

    7 This is what the Lord of armies has said: Give thought to your ways.

  • Isa 5:20
    69%

    20 Cursed are those who give the name of good to evil, and of evil to what is good: who make light dark, and dark light: who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter!

  • Jer 15:11
    69%

    11 ...

  • Deut 6:18
    69%

    18 And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers,

  • Zech 1:4
    69%

    4 Be not like your fathers, to whom the voice of the earlier prophets came, saying, Be turned now from your evil ways and from your evil doings: but they did not give ear to me or take note, says the Lord.

  • Isa 2:5
    69%

    5 O family of Jacob, come, and let us go in the light of the Lord.

  • Mal 2:17
    69%

    17 You have made the Lord tired with your words. And still you say, How have we made him tired? By your saying, Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of the Lord, and he has delight in them; or, Where is God the judge?

  • Mal 1:8
    69%

    8 And when you give what is blind for an offering, it is no evil! and when you give what is damaged and ill, it is no evil! Give it now to your ruler; will he be pleased with you, or will you have his approval? says the Lord of armies.

  • Jer 10:1
    69%

    1 Give ear to the word which the Lord says to you, O people of Israel:

  • Mic 1:12
    69%

    12 For the one living in Maroth is waiting for good: for evil has come down from the Lord to the doorways of Jerusalem.

  • Isa 8:19
    69%

    19 And when they say to you, Make request for us to those who have control of spirits, and to those wise in secret arts, who make hollow bird-like sounds; is it not right for a people to make request to their gods, to make request for the living to the dead?

  • Mic 6:8
    69%

    8 He has made clear to you, O man, what is good; and what is desired from you by the Lord; only doing what is right, and loving mercy, and walking without pride before your God.

  • Obad 1:14
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    14 And do not take your place at the cross-roads, cutting off those of his people who get away; and do not give up to their haters those who are still there in the day of trouble.

  • Deut 13:14
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    14 Then let a full search be made, and let questions be put with care; and if it is true and certain that such a disgusting thing has been done among you;

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    10 All those sinners among my people will be put to the sword who say, Evil will not overtake us or come face to face with us.

  • Mic 2:3
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    3 For this cause the Lord has said, See, against this family I am purposing an evil from which you will not be able to take your necks away, and you will be weighted down by it; for it is an evil time.

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    6 Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near:

  • Jer 4:2
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    2 And you will take your oath, By the living Lord, in good faith and wisdom and righteousness; and the nations will make use of you as a blessing, and in you will they take a pride.