Bible verse
There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.
Amos 5:10 · BSB
The verses around it, from Amos 5.
6 Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.
7 There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.
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.
13 Therefore, the prudent keep silent in such times, for the days are evil.
14 Seek good, not evil, so that you may live. And the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be with you, as you have claimed.
KJV
They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
ASV
They hate him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
ERV
They hate him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
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