Amos 5:24

WEB

²⁴But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

KJV

²⁴But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

BSB

²⁴But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

FBV

²⁴Rather let justice flow like a river, and doing right like an ever-flowing stream.

Extra References

Micah 6:8

⁸He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does the LORD require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

³The LORD says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.

Proverbs 21:3

³To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

Hosea 6:6

⁶For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Mark 12:32-34

³²The scribe said to him, “Truly, teacher, you have said well that he is one, and there is none other but he; ³³and 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.”

³⁴When 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.

Amos 5:14-15

¹⁴Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the LORD, the God of Armies, will be with you, as you say. ¹⁵Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that the LORD, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

Amos 5:7

⁷You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth!

Job 29:12-17

¹²because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him, ¹³the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy. ¹⁴I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem. ¹⁵I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. ¹⁶I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him whom I didn’t know. ¹⁷I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.