Amos 5:15

Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

“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.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

Ben Hadad listened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel, and struck Ijon, and Dan, and Abel Beth Maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.

Yahweh will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.

You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”

who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

Who knows? He may turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal offering and a drink offering to Yahweh, your God.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Samuel said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. You have indeed done all this evil; yet don’t turn away from following Yahweh, but serve Yahweh with all your heart.

Incline your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and see. Hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to defy the living God.

So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and to the river of Gozan, to this day.

I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”

You who love Yahweh, hate evil! He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.

Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

for you will heap coals of fire on his head, and Yahweh will reward you.

I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;

Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God’s house.

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree haven’t produced. From today I will bless you.’ ”

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

So then, let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it.

It shall be to him, and to his offspring after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.’ ”

Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn’t listen to Balaam, but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you.

They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.

David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes, and clothe yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn in front of Abner.” King David followed the bier.

To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”

Oh love Yahweh, all you his saints! Yahweh preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.

Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way.

“I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.”

The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh’s house. The priests, Yahweh’s ministers, mourn.

Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron;

For Yahweh says to the house of Israel: “Seek me, and you will live;

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.

On the next day, Moses said to the people, “You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh. Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin.”

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

Daniel requested of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego over the affairs of the province of Babylon; but Daniel was in the king’s gate.

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

So the ship master came to him, and said to him, “What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God! Maybe your God will notice us, so that we won’t perish.”

Therefore he will abandon them until the time that she who is in labor gives birth. Then the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Israel.

For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”

Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,

Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there. Behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by. Boaz said to him, “Come over here, friend, and sit down!” He came over, and sat down.

Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, “Come! Let’s go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised. It may be that Yahweh will work for us; for there is no restraint on Yahweh to save by many or by few.”

David reigned over all Israel; and David executed justice and righteousness for all his people.

He said, “While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who knows whether Yahweh will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?’

It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will repay me good for the cursing of me today.”

His servants said to him, “See now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Please let us put sackcloth on our bodies, and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel. Maybe he will save your life.”

For he didn’t leave to Jehoahaz of the people any more than fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria destroyed them, and made them like the dust in threshing.

In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.

It may be Yahweh your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’ ”

Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

Depart from evil, and do good. Live securely forever.

Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.

I hate and abhor falsehood. I love your law.

Wisdom is too high for a fool. He doesn’t open his mouth in the gate.

Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.

He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil and choose the good.

It may be Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’ ”

For Yahweh says, “Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout for the chief of the nations. Publish, praise, and say, ‘Yahweh, save your people, the remnant of Israel!’

Seek Yahweh, and you will live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.

But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;

The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them, and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esau.” Indeed, Yahweh has spoken.

Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?”

I will surely assemble, Jacob, all of you; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as a flock in the middle of their pasture; they will swarm with people.

The remnant of Jacob will be among many peoples, like dew from Yahweh, like showers on the grass, that don’t wait for man, nor wait for the sons of men.

These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,

Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,

because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled,

Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.