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Passage Lookup: Amos 5:4-15

N84New International Version (1984)
NIVNew International Version
Amos 5:4
- Variant Count: 3
This is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: "Seek me and live;
Amos 5:4
- Variant Count: 2 (15%)
This is what the Lord says to Israel: "Seek me and live;
Amos 5:5
- Variant Count: 2
do not seek Bethel, do not go to Gilgal, do not journey to Beersheba. For Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will be reduced to nothing. "
Amos 5:5
- Variant Count: 2 (6%)
do not seek Bethel, do not go to Gilgal, do not journey to Beersheba. For Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will be reduced to nothing."
Amos 5:6
- Variant Count: 1
Seek the LORD and live, or he will sweep through the house of Joseph like a fire; it will devour, and Bethel will have no one to quench it.
Amos 5:6
- Variant Count: 3 (9%)
Seek the Lord and live, or he will sweep through the tribes of Joseph like a fire; it will devour them, and Bethel will have no one to quench it.
Amos 5:7
- Variant Count: 1
You who turn justice into bitterness and cast righteousness to the ground
Amos 5:7
- Variant Count: 4 (26%)
There are those who turn justice into bitterness and cast righteousness to the ground.
Amos 5:8
- Variant Count: 2
(he who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns blackness into dawn and darkens day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out over the face of the land- the LORD is his name-
Amos 5:8
- Variant Count: 3 (7%)
He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns midnight into dawn and darkens day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out over the face of the land— the Lord is his name.
Amos 5:9
- Variant Count: 3
he flashes destruction on the stronghold and brings the fortified city to ruin),
Amos 5:9
- Variant Count: 6 (37%)
With a blinding flash he destroys the stronghold and brings the fortified city to ruin.
Amos 5:10
- Variant Count: 4
you hate the one who reproves in court and despise him who tells the truth.
Amos 5:10
- Variant Count: 7 (33%)
There are those who hate the one who upholds justice in court and detest the one who tells the truth.
Amos 5:11
- Variant Count: 5
You trample on the poor and force him to give you grain. Therefore, though you have built stone mansions, you will not live in them; though you have planted lush vineyards, you will not drink their wine.
Amos 5:11
- Variant Count: 8 (19%)
You levy a straw tax on the poor and impose a tax on their grain. Therefore, though you have built stone mansions, you will not live in them; though you have planted lush vineyards, you will not drink their wine.
Amos 5:12
- Variant Count: 3
For I know how many are your offenses and how great your sins. You oppress the righteous and take bribes and you deprive the poor of justice in the courts.
Amos 5:12
- Variant Count: 5 (15%)
For I know how many are your offenses and how great your sins. There are those who oppress the innocent and take bribes and deprive the poor of justice in the courts.
Amos 5:13
- Variant Count: 2
Therefore the prudent man keeps quiet in such times, for the times are evil.
Amos 5:13
- Variant Count: 2 (14%)
Therefore the prudent keep quiet in such times, for the times are evil.
Amos 5:14
- Variant Count: None
Seek good, not evil, that you may live. Then the LORD God Almighty will be with you, just as you say he is.
Amos 5:14
- Variant Count: 1 (4%)
Seek good, not evil, that you may live. Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you, just as you say he is.
Amos 5:15
- Variant Count: None
Hate evil, love good; maintain justice in the courts. Perhaps the LORD God Almighty will have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.
Amos 5:15
- Variant Count: 1 (4%)
Hate evil, love good; maintain justice in the courts. Perhaps the Lord God Almighty will have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.
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