But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
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Amos · Amos 5
Amos 5:24
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23Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
Amos 5:24
But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
After
25“Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel?
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- Micah 6:8Shares a themeHe has shown you, O man, what is good. What does the LORD require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
- Proverbs 31:8-9Shares a themeOpen your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate. Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”Shared with Justice
- Isaiah 1:17Shares a themeLearn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”Shared with Justice
- Deuteronomy 16:20Shares a themeYou shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which the LORD your God gives you.Shared with Justice
- Psalm 82:3-4Shares a theme“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”Shared with Justice
- James 5:4Shares a themeBehold, the wages of the labourers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.Shared with Justice