Amos 5:24
But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
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Amos 5:24
But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
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Leviticus 19:12
“ ‘You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.
1 Samuel 25:21
Now David had said, “Surely in vain I have kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him. He has returned me evil for good.
Jeremiah 5:2
Though they say, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ surely they swear falsely.”
Jeremiah 8:8
“ ‘How do you say, “We are wise, and Yahweh’s law is with us?” But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has made that a lie.
Jeremiah 27:15
For I have not sent them,” says Yahweh, “but they prophesy falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that you may perish, you, and the prophets who prophesy to you.”
Zechariah 5:4
I will cause it to go out,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the middle of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones.”
Malachi 2:2
If you will not listen, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to my name,” says Yahweh of Armies, “then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart.
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Deuteronomy 10:12
Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
Ezekiel 18:9
has walked in my statutes, and has kept my ordinances, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live,” says the Lord Yahweh.
Ezekiel 20:11
I gave them my statutes and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he will live in them.
Amos 5:4
For Yahweh says to the house of Israel: “Seek me, and you will live;
Matthew 22:37
Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
Mark 12:32
The scribe said to him, “Truly, teacher, you have said well that he is one, and there is none other but he;
Mark 12:33
and to love him with all the heart, with all the understanding, all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
Mark 12:34
When Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from God’s Kingdom.” No one dared ask him any question after that.
Luke 10:27
He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”
Luke 10:28
He said to him, “You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.”
Luke 10:29
But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”
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Deuteronomy 16:16
Three times in a year all of your males shall appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he chooses: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of booths. They shall not appear before Yahweh empty.
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Deuteronomy 16:17
Every man shall give as he is able, according to Yahweh your God’s blessing which he has given you.
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Deuteronomy 21:1
If someone is found slain in the land which Yahweh your God gives you to possess, lying in the field, and it isn’t known who has struck him,
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1 Samuel 15:21
But the people took of the plunder, sheep and cattle, the best of the devoted things, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God in Gilgal.”
1 Samuel 15:23
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected Yahweh’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.”
1 Samuel 15:24
Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.
Psalms 66:18
If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.
Proverbs 21:27
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination— how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!
Proverbs 28:9
He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
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2 Samuel 8:15
David reigned over all Israel; and David executed justice and righteousness for all his people.
1 Chronicles 18:14
David reigned over all Israel; and he executed justice and righteousness for all his people.
Psalms 75:2
When I choose the appointed time, I will judge blamelessly.
Psalms 78:71
from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.
Psalms 78:72
So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.
Psalms 89:14
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.
Psalms 101:1
I will sing of loving kindness and justice. To you, Yahweh, I will sing praises.
Psalms 101:2
I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.
Psalms 101:3
I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.
Psalms 101:4
A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil.
Psalms 101:5
I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.
Psalms 101:6
My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, he will serve me.
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2 Samuel 23:3
The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, ‘One who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God,
2 Samuel 23:4
shall be as the light of the morning when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’
Psalms 45:6
Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom.
Psalms 45:7
You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
Psalms 72:2
He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.
Isaiah 11:3
His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh. He will not judge by the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing of his ears;
Isaiah 11:4
but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.
Isaiah 11:5
Righteousness will be the belt around his waist, and faithfulness the belt around his waist.
Jeremiah 23:5
“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will raise to David a righteous Branch; and he will reign as king and deal wisely, and will execute justice and righteousness in the land.
Jeremiah 23:6
In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely. This is his name by which he will be called: Yahweh our righteousness.
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2 Kings 14:23
In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria for forty-one years.
2 Kings 15:23
In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria for two years.
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2 Chronicles 19:6
and said to the judges, “Consider what you do, for you don’t judge for man, but for Yahweh; and he is with you in the judgment.
2 Chronicles 19:7
Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.”
Psalms 82:2
“How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?” Selah.
Psalms 82:3
“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
Psalms 82:4
Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”
Isaiah 56:1
Yahweh says: “Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is near and my righteousness will soon be revealed.
Jeremiah 22:16
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.
Amos 5:10
They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.
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2 Chronicles 19:8
Moreover in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed certain Levites, priests, and heads of the fathers’ households of Israel to give judgment for Yahweh and for controversies. They returned to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 19:9
He commanded them, saying, “You shall do this in the fear of Yahweh, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.
2 Chronicles 19:10
Whenever any controversy comes to you from your brothers who dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, you must warn them, that they not be guilty toward Yahweh, and so wrath come on you and on your brothers. Do this, and you will not be guilty.
2 Chronicles 19:11
Behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of Yahweh; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, in all the king’s matters. Also the Levites shall be officers before you. Deal courageously, and may Yahweh be with the good.”
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Job 29:12
because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,
Job 29:13
the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
Job 29:14
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
Job 29:15
I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.
Job 29:16
I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him whom I didn’t know.
Job 29:17
I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
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Psalms 16:11
You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.
Psalms 36:8
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
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Psalms 50:8
I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
Psalms 50:9
I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.
Hebrews 10:6
You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.
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Psalms 51:18
Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.
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Psalms 51:19
Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer bulls on your altar.
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Psalms 101:7
He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes.
Psalms 101:8
Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land, to cut off all the workers of iniquity from Yahweh’s city.
Hebrews 10:38
But the righteous one will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
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Proverbs 13:15
Good understanding wins favor, but the way of the unfaithful is hard.
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Song of Solomon 4:12
My sister, my bride, is a locked up garden; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.
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Isaiah 11:6
The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat, the calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together; and a little child will lead them.
Isaiah 11:7
The cow and the bear will graze. Their young ones will lie down together. The lion will eat straw like the ox.
Isaiah 11:8
The nursing child will play near a cobra’s hole, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.
Isaiah 11:9
They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.
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Isaiah 43:21
the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.
Jeremiah 31:33
“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Jeremiah 31:34
They will no longer each teach his neighbor, and every man teach his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh;’ for they will all know me, from their least to their greatest,” says Yahweh, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
Ezekiel 36:26
I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
Ezekiel 36:27
I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.
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Isaiah 43:22
Yet you have not called on me, Jacob; but you have been weary of me, Israel.
Malachi 1:13
You say also, ‘Behold, what a weariness it is!’ And you have sniffed at it”, says Yahweh of Armies; “and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?” says Yahweh.
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Psalms 119:165
Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.
Isaiah 30:29
You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come to Yahweh’s mountain, to Israel’s Rock.
Isaiah 32:15
until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest.
Isaiah 32:16
Then justice will dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness will remain in the fruitful field.
Isaiah 32:17
The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.
Isaiah 32:18
My people will live in a peaceful habitation, in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting places,
Isaiah 44:5
One will say, ‘I am Yahweh’s.’ Another will be called by the name of Jacob; and another will write with his hand ‘to Yahweh,’ and honor the name of Israel.”
Matthew 5:9
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.
Romans 14:17
for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
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Jeremiah 5:15
Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far away, house of Israel,” says Yahweh. “It is a mighty nation. It is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don’t know and don’t understand what they say.
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Jeremiah 7:5
For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;
Jeremiah 7:6
if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt,
Jeremiah 7:7
then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forever more.
Jeremiah 7:8
Behold, you trust in lying words that can’t profit.
Jeremiah 7:10
then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered,’ that you may do all these abominations?
Jeremiah 7:11
Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it,” says Yahweh.
Micah 3:11
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 among us? No disaster will come on us.”
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Jeremiah 15:20
I will make you to this people a fortified bronze wall. They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you to save you and to deliver you,” says Yahweh.
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Ecclesiastes 5:1
Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil.
Isaiah 1:10
Hear Yahweh’s word, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
Isaiah 58:6
“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
Isaiah 58:8
Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.
Isaiah 61:8
“For I, Yahweh, love justice. I hate robbery and iniquity. I will give them their reward in truth and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
Hosea 4:1
Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel, for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
Malachi 3:5
I will come near to you to judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
Matthew 23:14
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don’t enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.
Matthew 23:19
You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
Matthew 23:27
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones and of all uncleanness.
James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
James 2:13
For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
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Amos 2:6
Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment, because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals;
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Amos 5:27
Therefore I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,” says Yahweh, whose name is the God of Armies.
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Amos 6:6
who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best oils, but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
Amos 6:8
“The Lord Yahweh has sworn by himself,” says Yahweh, the God of Armies: “I abhor the pride of Jacob, and detest his fortresses. Therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.
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Amos 6:7
Therefore they will now go captive with the first who go captive. The feasting and lounging will end.
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Amos 8:8
Won’t the land tremble for this, and everyone mourn who dwells in it? Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.
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Matthew 5:23
“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,
Matthew 8:4
Jesus said to him, “See that you tell nobody; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”
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Matthew 9:17
Neither do people put new wine into old wine skins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved.”
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Revelation 21:6
He said to me, “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life.
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Revelation 22:17
The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.
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