Amo 7:7-13, Mal 3:5, Luk 11:39-54, Act 5:28-33, 7:51-54, Gal 4:16 | ESV | STEP | This is what he showed me: behold , the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line , with a plumb line in his hand .

7 ^aThis is what he showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with ^ba plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. 8 And the Lord said to me, ^c“Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said,

“Behold, I am setting ^da plumb line
in the midst of my people Israel;
^eI will never again pass by them;
9 ^fthe high places of Isaac shall be made desolate,
and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste,
and I will rise against ^gthe house of Jeroboam with the sword.”

Amos Accused

10 Then Amaziah ^hthe priest of Bethel sent to ⁱJeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has ^jconspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words. 11 For thus Amos has said,

“‘Jeroboam shall die by the sword,
and ^kIsrael must go into exile
away from his land.’”
12 And Amaziah said to Amos, ^l“O seer, go, flee away ^mto the land of Judah, and ⁿeat bread there, and prophesy there, 13 but ^onever again prophesy at Bethel, for ^pit is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom.”

Malachi 3:5

5 “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be ^qa swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those ^rwho oppress the hired worker in his wages, ^sthe widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

Luke 11:39-54

39 And the Lord said to him, ^t“Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside you are full of ^ugreed and wickedness. 40 ^vYou fools! ^wDid not he who made the outside make the inside also? 41 But ^xgive as alms those things that are within, and behold, ^yeverything is clean for you.

42 ^z“But woe to you Pharisees! For ^aayou tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect ^abjustice and ^acthe love of God. ^adThese you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. 43 Woe to you Pharisees! For ^aeyou love the best seat in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces. 44 Woe to you! ^afFor you are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without knowing it.”

45 One of ^agthe lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying these things you insult us also.” 46 And he said, “Woe to you ^ahlawyers also! For ^aiyou load people with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers. 47 ^ajWoe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets whom your fathers killed. 48 ^akSo you are witnesses and you ^alconsent to the deeds of ^amyour fathers, for they killed them, and you build their tombs. 49 Therefore also ^anthe Wisdom of God said, ^ao‘I will send them ^approphets and apostles, ^aqsome of whom they will ^arkill and persecute,’ 50 so that ^asthe blood of all the prophets, shed ^atfrom the foundation of the world, may be ^aucharged against this generation, 51 from the blood of ^avAbel to the blood of ^awZechariah, who perished between ^axthe altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be ^ayrequired of this generation. 52 Woe to you ^azlawyers! ^baFor you have taken away the key of ^bbknowledge. You ^bcdid not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering.”

53 As he went away from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press him hard and to provoke him to speak about many things, 54 ^bdlying in wait for him, ^beto catch him in something he might say.

Acts 5:28-33

28 saying, ^bf“We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you ^bgintend to bring this man’s blood upon us.” 29 But Peter and the apostles answered, ^bh“We must obey God rather than men. 30 ^biThe God of our fathers ^bjraised Jesus, ^bkwhom you killed by hanging him on ^bla tree. 31 God exalted ^bmhim at his right hand as ^bnLeader and ^boSavior, ^bpto give ^bqrepentance to Israel and ^brforgiveness of sins. 32 And ^bswe are witnesses to these things, and ^btso is the Holy Spirit, ^buwhom God has given to those who obey him.”

33 When they heard this, they ^bvwere enraged and wanted to kill them.

Acts 7:51-54

51 ^bw“You stiff-necked people, ^bxuncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. ^byAs your fathers did, so do you. 52 ^bzWhich of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of ^cathe Righteous One, ^cbwhom you have now betrayed and murdered, 53 you who received the law ^ccas delivered by angels and ^cddid not keep it.”

The Stoning of Stephen

54 Now when they heard these things ^cethey were enraged, and they ^cfground their teeth at him.

Galatians 4:16

16 Have I then become your enemy by ^cgtelling you the truth? ^{▼▼Or by dealing truthfully with you}