Amos 5:14

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Seek good and not evil so you can live! Then the LORD God of Heaven’s Armies, just might be with you, as you claim he is.

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Referenced Verses

  • Josh 1:9 : 9 I repeat, be strong and brave! Don’t be afraid and don’t panic, for I, the LORD your God, am with you in all you do.”
  • Mic 3:11 : 11 Her leaders take bribes when they decide legal cases, her priests proclaim rulings for profit, and her prophets read omens for pay. Yet they claim to trust the LORD and say,“The LORD is among us. Disaster will not overtake us!”
  • Phil 4:8-9 : 8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is worthy of respect, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if something is excellent or praiseworthy, think about these things. 9 And what you learned and received and heard and saw in me, do these things. And the God of peace will be with you.
  • Amos 3:3 : 3 Do two walk together without having met?
  • 1 Chr 28:20 : 20 David said to his son Solomon:“Be strong and brave! Do it! Don’t be afraid and don’t panic! For the LORD God, my God, is with you. He will not leave you or abandon you before all the work for the service of the LORD’s temple is finished.
  • 2 Chr 15:2 : 2 He met Asa and told him,“Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin! The LORD is with you when you are loyal to him. If you seek him, he will respond to you, but if you reject him, he will reject you.
  • Ps 34:12-16 : 12 Do you want to really live? Would you love to live a long, happy life? 13 Then make sure you don’t speak evil words or use deceptive speech! 14 Turn away from evil and do what is right! Strive for peace and promote it! 15 The LORD pays attention to the godly and hears their cry for help. 16 But the LORD opposes evildoers and wipes out all memory of them from the earth.
  • Ps 46:11 : 11 The LORD of Heaven’s Armies is on our side! The God of Jacob is our protector!(Selah)
  • Prov 11:27 : 27 The one who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but the one who searches for evil– it will come to him.
  • Isa 1:16-17 : 16 Wash! Cleanse yourselves! Remove your sinful deeds from my sight. Stop sinning! 17 Learn to do what is right! Promote justice! Give the oppressed reason to celebrate! Take up the cause of the orphan! Defend the rights of the widow!
  • Isa 8:10 : 10 Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted! Issue your orders, but they will not be executed! For God is with us!
  • Isa 48:1-2 : 1 The Lord Appeals to the Exiles Listen to this, O family of Jacob, you who are called by the name‘Israel,’ and are descended from Judah, who take oaths in the name of the LORD, and invoke the God of Israel– but not in an honest and just manner. 2 Indeed, they live in the holy city; they trust in the God of Israel, whose name is the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
  • Isa 55:2 : 2 Why pay money for something that will not nourish you? Why spend your hard-earned money on something that will not satisfy? Listen carefully to me and eat what is nourishing! Enjoy fine food!
  • Jer 7:3-4 : 3 The LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel says: Change the way you have been living and do what is right. If you do, I will allow you to continue to live in this land. 4 Stop putting your confidence in the false belief that says,“We are safe! The temple of the LORD is here! The temple of the LORD is here! The temple of the LORD is here!”
  • Mic 6:8 : 8 He has told you, O man, what is good, and what the LORD really wants from you: He wants you to carry out justice, to love faithfulness, and to live obediently before your God.
  • Matt 1:23 : 23 “Look! The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will name him Emmanuel,” which means“God with us.”
  • Matt 6:33 : 33 But above all pursue his kingdom and righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
  • Gen 39:2-3 : 2 The LORD was with Joseph. He was successful and lived in the household of his Egyptian master. 3 His master observed that the LORD was with him and that the LORD made everything he was doing successful.
  • Gen 39:23 : 23 The warden did not concern himself with anything that was in Joseph’s care because the LORD was with him and whatever he was doing the LORD was making successful.
  • Exod 3:12 : 12 He replied,“Surely I will be with you, and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: When you bring the people out of Egypt, you and they will serve God at this mountain.”
  • Num 16:3 : 3 And they assembled against Moses and Aaron, saying to them,“You take too much upon yourselves, seeing that the whole community is holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the community of the LORD.
  • Rom 2:7-9 : 7 eternal life to those who by perseverance in good works seek glory and honor and immortality, 8 but wrath and anger to those who live in selfish ambition and do not obey the truth but follow unrighteousness. 9 There will be affliction and distress on everyone who does evil, on the Jew first and also the Greek,
  • 2 Tim 4:22 : 22 The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you.
  • Matt 28:20 : 20 teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

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