Turn away from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

He devises iniquity on his bed; he gives himself to every evil way; and does not abhor evil.

Turn aside from evil, and do good; and dwell forever.

You that love the Lord, hate evil; the Lord preserves the souls of His saints; He shall deliver them from the hand of sinners.

I gain understanding by Your commandments; therefore I have hated every way of unrighteousness.

Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hate You? And [have I not] wasted away because of Your enemies?

I have hated them with perfect hatred; they were counted as my enemies.

For what I am doing, I do not know. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, this I do.

But if I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that [it is] good.

For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man.

Therefore the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it does not submit to the law of God, nor indeed can it.

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

But test all things; hold fast that which is good.

Abstain from every form of evil.

Beloved, do not imitate the evil, but the good. He who does good is of God; he who does evil has not seen God.

They hated him that reproved in the gates, and abhorred holy speech.

But let judgment roll down as water, and righteousness as an impassable torrent.

[ 6:13] Will horses run upon rocks? Will they refrain from neighing at mares? For you have turned judgment into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness.

And he said to the judges, Take good heed what you do: for you judge not for man, but for the Lord, and with you are matters of judgment.

Moreover Jehoshaphat appointed in Jerusalem some of the priests and Levites, and heads of houses of Israel, for the judgment of the Lord, and to judge the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Whatsoever man of your brethren that dwell in their cities [shall bring] the cause that comes before you, between blood [and] blood, and between precept and commandment, and ordinances and judgments, you shall even decide for them; so they shall not sin against the Lord, and there shall not be wrath upon you, and upon your brethren. Thus you shall do, and you shall not sin.

How long will you judge unrighteously, and accept the persons of sinners? Pause.

Rescue the needy, and deliver the poor out of the hand of the sinner.

For if you thoroughly correct your ways and your practices, and do indeed execute judgment between a man and his neighbor;

then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land which I gave to your fathers of old, and forever.

And it came to pass on the next day that Moses said to the people, You have sinned a great sin; and now I will go up to God, that I may make atonement for your sin.

If by any means the Lord may look upon my affliction, thus shall He return me good for his cursing this day.

And he said to his servants, I know that the kings of Israel are merciful kings: let us now put sackcloth upon our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and let us go forth to the king of Israel, if by any means he will save our souls alive.

Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to reproach the living God, and to revile Him with the words which the Lord your God has heard; and you shall offer [your] prayer for the remnant that is found.

Who knows if He will return, and repent, and leave a blessing behind Him, even a grain offering and a drink offering to the Lord your God?

Who knows if God will relent, and turn from His fierce anger, and so we shall not perish?

But seek the Lord, and you shall live; lest the house of Joseph blaze as fire, and it devour him, and there shall be none to quench it for the house of Israel.

Whereas there was not left any army to Jehoahaz, except fifty horsemen and ten chariots, and ten thousand infantry; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and they made them as dust for trampling.

For the Lord saw [that] the affliction of Israel [was] very bitter, and that they were few in number, straitened and in want, and destitute, and Israel had no helper.

And the Lord said that He would not blot out the seed of Israel from under heaven; so He delivered them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.

In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser king of the Assyrians came, and took Ijon, Abel, Beth Maachah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, [even] all the land of Naphtali, and carried them away to the Assyrians.

For thus says the Lord to Jacob: Rejoice, and exult over the head of the nations: make proclamation, and praise. Say, The Lord has delivered His people, the remnant of Israel.

Jacob shall be completely gathered with all [his people]: I will surely receive the remnant of Israel; I will cause them to return together, as sheep in trouble, as a flock in the midst of their fold: they shall rush forth from among men through the breach made before them:

Therefore shall He appoint them to wait till the time of her that labors: she shall bring forth, and then the remnant of their brothers shall return to the children of Israel.

And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many peoples, as dew falling from the Lord, and as lambs on the grass; that none may assemble nor resist among the sons of men.

And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many nations, as a lion in the forest among cattle, and as a lion's whelp among the flocks of sheep, even as when he goes through, and selects, and carries off [his prey], and there is none to deliver.