Amos 5:15
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15 (A)Hate evil, love good;
Establish justice in the gate.
(B)It may be that the Lord God of hosts
Will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
Romans 12:9
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Behave Like a Christian
9 (A)Let love be without hypocrisy. (B)Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.
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3 John 11
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11 Beloved, (A)do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. (B)He who does good is of God, [a]but he who does evil has not seen (C)God.
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- 3 John 1:11 NU, M omit but
Joel 2:14
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14 (A)Who knows if He will turn and relent,
And leave (B)a blessing behind Him—
(C)A grain offering and a drink offering
For the Lord your God?
Psalm 97:10
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10 You who love the Lord, (A)hate evil!
(B)He preserves the souls of His saints;
(C)He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
1 Thessalonians 5:21-22
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21 (A)Test all things; (B)hold fast what is good. 22 Abstain from every form of evil.
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Romans 8:7
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7 Because (A)the [a]carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, (B)nor indeed can be.
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- Romans 8:7 fleshly
Micah 5:7-8
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7 Then (A)the remnant of Jacob
Shall be in the midst of many peoples,
(B)Like dew from the Lord,
Like showers on the grass,
That [a]tarry for no man
Nor [b]wait for the sons of men.
8 And the remnant of Jacob
Shall be among the Gentiles,
In the midst of many peoples,
Like a (C)lion among the beasts of the forest,
Like a young lion among flocks of sheep,
Who, if he passes through,
Both treads down and tears in pieces,
And none can deliver.
Micah 5:3
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3 Therefore He shall give them up,
Until the time that (A)she who is in labor has given birth;
Then (B)the remnant of His brethren
Shall return to the children of Israel.
Exodus 32:30
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30 Now it came to pass on the next day that Moses said to the people, (A)“You have committed a great sin. So now I will go up to the Lord; (B)perhaps I can (C)make atonement for your sin.”
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Jonah 3:9
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9 (A)Who can tell if God will turn and relent, and turn away from His fierce anger, so that we may not perish?
Amos 5:24
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24 (A)But let justice run down like water,
And righteousness like a mighty stream.
Psalm 36:4
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4 (A)He devises wickedness on his bed;
He sets himself (B)in a way that is not good;
He does not [a]abhor (C)evil.
Footnotes
- Psalm 36:4 reject, loathe
1 Kings 20:31
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Ahab’s Treaty with Ben-Hadad
31 Then his servants said to him, “Look now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Please, let us (A)put sackcloth around our waists and ropes around our heads, and go out to the king of Israel; perhaps he will spare your life.”
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Romans 7:22
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22 For I (A)delight in the law of God according to (B)the inward man.
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Romans 7:15-16
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15 For what I am doing, I do not understand. (A)For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. 16 If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good.
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Micah 2:12
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Israel Restored
12 “I(A) will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob,
I will surely gather the remnant of Israel;
I will put them together (B)like sheep of [a]the fold,
Like a flock in the midst of their pasture;
(C)They shall make a loud noise because of so many people.
Footnotes
- Micah 2:12 Heb. Bozrah
Amos 6:12
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12 Do horses run on rocks?
Does one plow there with oxen?
Yet (A)you have turned justice into gall,
And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,
Amos 5:10
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Amos 5:6
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6 (A)Seek the Lord and live,
Lest He break out like fire in the house of Joseph,
And devour it,
With no one to quench it in Bethel—
Jeremiah 31:7
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7 For thus says the Lord:
(A)“Sing with gladness for Jacob,
And shout among the chief of the nations;
Proclaim, give praise, and say,
‘O Lord, save Your people,
The remnant of Israel!’
Jeremiah 7:5-7
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5 “For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly (A)execute [a]judgment between a man and his neighbor, 6 if you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, (B)or walk after other gods to your hurt, 7 (C)then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in (D)the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.
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- Jeremiah 7:5 justice
Psalm 119:104
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104 Through Your precepts I get understanding;
Therefore I hate every false way.
Psalm 82:2-4
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2 How long will you judge unjustly,
And (A)show partiality to the wicked? Selah
3 [a]Defend the poor and fatherless;
Do justice to the afflicted and (B)needy.
4 Deliver the poor and needy;
Free them from the hand of the wicked.
Footnotes
- Psalm 82:3 Vindicate
Psalm 37:27
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27 Depart from evil, and do good;
And dwell forevermore.
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