Micah 6:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹² For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² For [the city's] rich men are full of violence; her inhabitants have spoken lies and their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

Common English Bible

¹² in a city whose wealthy are full of violence and whose inhabitants speak falsehood with lying tongues in their mouths?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² By this, her wealthy have been filled with iniquity, and her inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue was deceitful in their mouth.

Micah 6:12 Cross References

Hosea 7:13

Woe unto them! for they have wandered from me; destruction unto them! for they have trespassed against me: though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

Jeremiah 9:8

Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in his heart he layeth wait for him.

Isaiah 1:23

Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgement, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.

Isaiah 3:8

For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

Romans 3:13

Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:

Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they leave nothing till the morrow.

Hosea 7:1

When I would heal Israel, then is the iniquity of Ephraim discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood: and the thief entereth in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.

Psalm 35:20

For they speak not peace: But they devise deceitful words against them that are quiet in the land.

Amos 2:4

Thus saith the LORD: For three transgressions of Judah, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have rejected the law of the LORD, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have caused them to err, after the which their fathers did walk:

Amos 6:4

that lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;

Psalm 78:36

But they flattered him with their mouth, And lied unto him with their tongue.

Psalm 120:2

Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, And from a deceitful tongue.

Zephaniah 1:9

And in that day I will punish all those that leap over the threshold, which fill their master's house with violence and deceit.

Acts 24:9

And the Jews also joined in the charge, affirming that these things were so.