Amos 5:24
Rather let justice flow like a river, and doing right like an ever-flowing stream.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
In Context
23Stop your noisy worship songs. I will not listen to the melody of your harps.
25Did you bring me sacrifices during those forty years in the desert, people of Israel?
Cross References
Proverbs 21:3Doing what's right and fair pleases the Lord more than sacrifices.
Hosea 6:6I want your true love, not your sacrifices; I want you to know me, not your burnt offerings.
Amos 5:14Do what is right, and not evil, so you may live. Then the Lord God of power will be with you, as you claim he is.
Mark 12:32“That's right, Teacher,” the man replied. “It's true as you said that God is one, and there is no other.
Matthew Henry on Amos 5:22-27
Hypocritical Services Rejected; Threatenings against Israel. ( b. c. 790.) 21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. 22 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. 23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. 24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. 25 Have ye offered unto me… Read the whole commentary →