Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
⛓ Read Amos 5 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Abhor that which is evil; cling to that which is good' (12:9) closely renders the prophetic imperative 'Hate evil and love good'; the antithetical evil/good pairing matches Amos's covenant ethics.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Hate the evil, love the good' parallels Paul's paired commands to 'hold firmly that which is good' and 'abstain from every form of evil' (5:21-22). A faint prophetic-ethical backdrop.
Low confidence