Amos 5:10

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

Amos 5:10

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.

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KJV

King James Version

They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

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WEB

World English Bible

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

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ASV

American Standard Version

They hate him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Amos 5

⁸ He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth—the LORD is His name—

⁹ He flashes destruction on the strong, so that fury comes upon the stronghold.

¹⁰ There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.

¹¹ Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.

¹² For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.

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