Amos 5:14

World English Bible (2000)

Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be with you, as you say.

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Referenced Verses

  • Josh 1:9 : 9 Haven't I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go."
  • Mic 3:11 : 11 Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, "Isn't Yahweh in the midst of us? No disaster will come on us."
  • Phil 4:8-9 : 8 Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things. 9 The things which you learned, received, 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, unless they have agreed?
  • 1 Chr 28:20 : 20 David said to Solomon his son, "Be strong and courageous, and do it. Don't be afraid, nor be dismayed; for Yahweh God, even my God, is with you. He will not fail you, nor forsake you, until all the work for the service of the house of Yahweh is finished.
  • 2 Chr 15:2 : 2 and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, "Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
  • Ps 34:12-16 : 12 Who is someone who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good? 13 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies. 14 Depart from evil, and do good. seek peace, and pursue it. 15 Yahweh's eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry. 16 Yahweh's face is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth.
  • Ps 46:11 : 11 Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.
  • Prov 11:27 : 27 He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him.
  • Isa 1:16-17 : 16 Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil. 17 Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow."
  • Isa 8:10 : 10 Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand: for God is with us."
  • Isa 48:1-2 : 1 "Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come forth out of the waters of Judah; who swear by the name of Yahweh, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness 2 (for they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Armies is his name):
  • Isa 55:2 : 2 Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which doesn't satisfy? listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
  • Jer 7:3-4 : 3 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. 4 Don't trust in lying words, saying, The temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, are these.
  • Mic 6:8 : 8 He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
  • Matt 1:23 : 23 "Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;" which is, being interpreted, "God with us."
  • Matt 6:33 : 33 But seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
  • Gen 39:2-3 : 2 Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian. 3 His master saw that Yahweh was with him, and that Yahweh made all that he did prosper in his hand.
  • Gen 39:23 : 23 The keeper of the prison didn't look after anything that was under his hand, because Yahweh was with him; and that which he did, Yahweh made it prosper.
  • Exod 3:12 : 12 He said, "Certainly I will be with you. This will be the token to you, that I have sent you: when you have brought forth the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain."
  • Num 16:3 : 3 and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, "You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is among them: why then lift yourselves up above the assembly of Yahweh?"
  • Rom 2:7-9 : 7 to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life; 8 but to those who are self-seeking, and don't obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation, 9 oppression and anguish, on every soul of man who works evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
  • 2 Tim 4:22 : 22 The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.
  • Matt 28:20 : 20 teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Amos 5:15-16
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    15Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph."

    16Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, the Lord: "Wailing will be in all the broad ways; and they will say in all the streets, 'Alas! Alas!' and they will call the farmer to mourning, and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.

  • Ps 34:13-14
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    13Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

    14Depart from evil, and do good. seek peace, and pursue it.

  • Amos 5:4-7
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    4For thus says Yahweh to the house of Israel: "Seek me, and you will live;

    5but don't seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and don't pass to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nothing.

    6Seek Yahweh, and you will live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.

    7You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:

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    10For, "He who would love life, and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.

    11Let him turn away from evil, and do good. Let him seek peace, and pursue it.

  • 13Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.

  • 27Depart from evil, and do good. Live securely forever.

  • 11Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return you now everyone from his evil way, and amend your ways and your doings.

  • Zech 8:15-18
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    15so again have I thought in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Don't be afraid.

    16These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,

    17and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate," says Yahweh.

    18The word of Yahweh of Armies came to me.

  • 3Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh's anger.

  • 5Do you seek great things for yourself? Don't seek them; for, behold, I will bring evil on all flesh, says Yahweh; but your life will I give to you for a prey in all places where you go.

  • 27He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him.

  • Isa 1:16-17
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    16Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.

    17Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow."

  • 5saying, Return now everyone from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that Yahweh has given to you and to your fathers, from of old and even forevermore;

  • 3Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

  • 5For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

  • 4Do good, Yahweh, to those who are good, to those who are upright in their hearts.

  • 15Yahweh has taken away your judgments. He has thrown out your enemy. The King of Israel, Yahweh, is in the midst of you. You will not be afraid of evil any more.

  • 15See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good, for one another, and for all.

  • 5Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.

  • 10Don't oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.'

  • 13Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of Yahweh your God; and Yahweh will repent him of the evil that he has pronounced against you.

  • 7This is what Yahweh of Armies says: "Consider your ways.

  • 20Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

  • 11Yahweh said, Most certainly I will strengthen you for good; most certainly I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.

  • 18You shall do that which is right and good in the sight of Yahweh; that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which Yahweh swore to your fathers,

  • 4Don't you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Thus says Yahweh of Armies, 'Return now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings;' but they did not hear, nor listen to me, says Yahweh.

  • 5House of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of Yahweh.

  • 17You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, 'How have we wearied him?' In that you say, 'Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of Yahweh, and he delights in them;' or 'Where is the God of justice?'

  • 8When you offer the blind for sacrifice, isn't that evil? And when you offer the lame and sick, isn't that evil? Present it now to your governor! Will he be pleased with you? Or will he accept your person?" says Yahweh of Armies.

  • 1Hear the word which Yahweh speaks to you, house of Israel!

  • 12For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, because evil has come down from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem.

  • 19When they tell you, "Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter:" shouldn't a people consult with their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?

  • 8He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

  • 14Don't stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who escape. Don't deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress.

  • 14then you shall inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in the midst of you,

  • 10All the sinners of my people will die by the sword, who say, 'Evil won't overtake nor meet us.'

  • 3Therefore thus says Yahweh: "Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, from which you will not remove your necks, neither will you walk haughtily; for it is an evil time.

  • 6Seek Yahweh while he may be found; call you on him while he is near:

  • 2and you shall swear, 'As Yahweh lives,' in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. The nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory."