Amos 5:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵Hate 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.

Amos 5:15 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 12:9
Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
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?
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.
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.
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.

Topics

Contrition Conviction God Penitence Penitent Religion Remorse Repentance

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 4-15)

This is a message from God to the house of Israel, in which, I. They are told of their faults, that they might see what occasion there was for them to repent and reform, and that, when they were called to return, they might not need to ask, Wherein shall we return? 1. God tells them, in general (Amos 5:12), “ I know your manifold transgressions, and your mighty sins; and you shall be made to know…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 15)

15. Hate ... evil ... love ... good--(Is 1:16, 17; Ro 12:9). judgment in the gate--justice in the place where causes are tried. it may be that the Lord ... will be gracious--so, “peradventure” (Ex 32:30). Not that men are to come to God with an uncertainty whether or no He will be gracious: the expression merely implies the difficulty in the way, because of the want of true repentance on man’s par…