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A Change of Heart, Not Just Actions
The command to "hate evil and love good" is more than a call to change behavior; it's a call to transform your inner affections. Commentators explain that true repentance involves a passionate, internal shift. One scholar notes, "No virtue is safe until it is enthusiastic." This change of heart is the necessary foundation for the external fruit of establishing justice.
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Amos
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Albert Barnes
On Amos 5:15
18th Century
Theologian
Hate the evil and love the good - A person will not entirely cease to “seek evil” unless they “hate” it; nor will they “seek good” …
Charles Ellicott
On Amos 5:14–15
19th Century
Bishop
Break in like a beam of sunshine in the darkness. The fearful doom, already spoken of, is after all conditional. Let a moral change be worked in th…
Charles Spurgeon
On Amos 5:12–17
19th Century
Preacher
National sins bring down national judgments; and when God grows angry against the people, he makes the places of their feasting, the vineyards wher…
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John Calvin
On Amos 5:15
16th Century
Theologian
The Prophet impresses upon us the same truth; and he did this intentionally, for he saw that nothing was more difficult than to bring this people t…
John Gill
On Amos 5:15
17th Century
Pastor
Hate the evil, and love the good
Evil is not only not to be sought, but to be hated, especially the evil of sin, bec…
Matthew Henry
On Amos 5:7–17
17th Century
Minister
The same almighty power can, for repenting sinners, easily turn affliction and sorrow into prosperity and joy, and as easily turn the prosperity of…