Micah 3:5

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Thus says the Lord about the prophets who seduce my people: They bite with their teeth and preach peace, and if anyone does not give something to their mouth, they sanctify a battle against him.

Cross References

Proverbs 28:21

Whoever shows favoritism in judgment does not do well; even if it is for a morsel of bread, he forsakes the truth.

Isaiah 3:12

As for my people, their oppressors have despoiled them, and women have ruled over them. My people, who call you blessed, the same are deceiving you and disrupting the path of your steps.

Jeremiah 23:27

They want to cause my people to forget my name, by means of their dreams, which each of them describes to his neighbor, just as their fathers forgot my name for the sake of Baal.

Jeremiah 23:32

Behold, I am against the prophets, who dream what is false, says the Lord; who explain and so seduce my people with their falsehoods and with their miracles, though I did not send them, nor did I command them. They have offer nothing beneficial to this people, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 6:14

And they healed the destruction of the daughter of my people with disgrace, by saying: 'Peace, peace.' And there was no peace.

Jeremiah 6:4

'Sanctify a war against her! Rise up together, and let us ascend at midday.' 'Woe to us! For the day has declined; for the shadows of the evening have grown longer.'

Lamentations 2:14

NUN. Your prophets have seen false and foolish things for you. And they have not laid open your iniquity, so as to provoke you to repentance. Yet they have seen for you false revelations and banishments.

Ezekiel 13:9

And my hand will be over the prophets who are seeing emptiness and divining lies. They shall not be in the council of my people, and they shall not be written in the writing of the house of Israel. Neither shall they enter into the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am the Lord God.

Hosea 4:5

And you will be ruined on this day, and now the prophet will be ruined with you. In the night, I have made your mother to be silent.

Joel 3:9

Proclaim this among the Gentiles: "Sanctify a war, raise up the strong. Approach, ascend, all men of war.

Micah 2:11

I wish that I were not a man who has breath, and that I rather spoke a lie. I will drop it down to you in wine and in drunkenness. And it will be this people on whom it will rain down.

Micah 3:11

Her leaders have judged for tributes, and her priests have taught for payment, and her prophets divined for money. And they leaned upon the Lord, saying: "Is not the Lord in our midst? No disaster will overcome us."

Malachi 2:8

But you have withdrawn from the way, and you have scandalized very many in the law. You have nullified the covenant of Levi, says the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 15:14

Leave them alone. They are blind, and they lead the blind. But if the blind are in charge of the blind, both will fall into the pit."

Matthew 7:15

Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves.

Romans 16:18

For ones such as these do not serve Christ our Lord, but their inner selves, and, through pleasing words and skillful speaking, they seduce the hearts of the innocent.