Amos 5:15
New Living Translation
15 Hate evil and love what is good;
turn your courts into true halls of justice.
Perhaps even yet the Lord God of Heaven’s Armies
will have mercy on the remnant of his people.[a]
Footnotes
- 5:15 Hebrew the remnant of Joseph.
Romans 12:9
New Living Translation
9 Don’t just pretend to love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong. Hold tightly to what is good.
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3 John 11
New Living Translation
11 Dear friend, don’t let this bad example influence you. Follow only what is good. Remember that those who do good prove that they are God’s children, and those who do evil prove that they do not know God.[a]
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- 11 Greek they have not seen God.
Joel 2:14
New Living Translation
14 Who knows? Perhaps he will give you a reprieve,
sending you a blessing instead of this curse.
Perhaps you will be able to offer grain and wine
to the Lord your God as before.
Psalm 97:10
New Living Translation
10 You who love the Lord, hate evil!
He protects the lives of his godly people
and rescues them from the power of the wicked.
1 Thessalonians 5:21-22
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21 but test everything that is said. Hold on to what is good. 22 Stay away from every kind of evil.
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Romans 8:7
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7 For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God’s laws, and it never will.
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Micah 5:7-8
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The Remnant Purified
7 Then the remnant left in Israel[a]
will take their place among the nations.
They will be like dew sent by the Lord
or like rain falling on the grass,
which no one can hold back
and no one can restrain.
8 The remnant left in Israel
will take their place among the nations.
They will be like a lion among the animals of the forest,
like a strong young lion among flocks of sheep and goats,
pouncing and tearing as they go
with no rescuer in sight.
Micah 5:3
New Living Translation
3 The people of Israel will be abandoned to their enemies
until the woman in labor gives birth.
Then at last his fellow countrymen
will return from exile to their own land.
Exodus 32:30
New Living Translation
Moses Intercedes for Israel
30 The next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a terrible sin, but I will go back up to the Lord on the mountain. Perhaps I will be able to obtain forgiveness[a] for your sin.”
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- 32:30 Or to make atonement.
Jonah 3:9
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9 Who can tell? Perhaps even yet God will change his mind and hold back his fierce anger from destroying us.”
Amos 5:24
New Living Translation
24 Instead, I want to see a mighty flood of justice,
an endless river of righteous living.
Psalm 36:4
New Living Translation
4 They lie awake at night, hatching sinful plots.
Their actions are never good.
They make no attempt to turn from evil.
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