Amos 5:15

Justice Sin Love for others Mercy and compassion

¹³ Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.

¹⁴ Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.

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.

¹⁶ Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.

¹⁷ And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: 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.”
KJV: 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.
WEB: 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.”
ASV: 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.
DARBY: 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.
BLB: Hate evil and love good, and establish justice in the gate! Perhaps YHWH God of Hosts will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

ÅB: Hat det onde og elsk det gode og la retten stå fast på tinge! Kanskje Herren, hærskarenes Gud, da vil være nådig mot Josefs levning.
OTB: Hat det onde, elsk det gode,
og etabler rettferdighet i porten.
Kanskje vil Herren Gud Allmektig
være nådig mot resten av Josef.
B1930: Hat det onde og elsk det gode og la retten stå fast på tinge! Kanskje Herren, hærskarenes Gud, da vil være nådig mot Josefs levning.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Romans 12:9
Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
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3 John 1:11
Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.
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Joel 2:14
Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?
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Psalms 97:10
Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
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1 Thessalonians 5:21–22
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
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Romans 8:7
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
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Micah 5:7–8
And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.
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Micah 5:3
Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.
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