Micah 3:11

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Her leaders issue rulings for a bribe, her priests teach for payment, and her prophets practise divination for silver. Yet they lean on the  Lord, saying, ‘Isn’t the Lord   among us? No disaster will overtake us.’

Cross References

Jeremiah 6:13

For from the least to the greatest of them, everyone is making profit dishonestly. From prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely.

Isaiah 1:23

Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love graft and chase after bribes. They do not defend the rights of the fatherless, and the widow’s case never comes before them.

Micah 3:5

This is what the  Lord  says concerning the prophets who lead my people astray, who proclaim  peace when they have food to sink their teeth into but declare war against the one who puts nothing in their mouths.

Jeremiah 7:4

Do not trust deceitful words, chanting, ‘This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.’

1 Peter 5:2

Shepherd God’s flock among you,  not overseeing  out of compulsion but willingly, as God would have you;  not out of greed for money but eagerly;

Titus 1:11

It is necessary to silence them; they are ruining entire households by teaching what they shouldn’t in order to get money dishonestly.

Micah 7:3

Both hands are good  at accomplishing evil: the official and the judge demand a bribe; when the powerful man communicates his evil desire, they plot it together.

Isaiah 48:2

For they are named after the holy city, and lean on the God of Israel; his name is the Lord of Armies.

Jeremiah 8:10

Therefore, I will give  their wives to other men, their fields to new occupants, for from the least to the greatest, everyone is making profit dishonestly. From prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely.

1 Samuel 8:3

However, his sons did not walk in his ways #– #they turned towards dishonest profit, took bribes, and perverted justice.

Numbers 16:15

Then Moses became angry and said to the Lord, ‘Don’t respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them or mistreated a single one of them.’

Jude 1:11

Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain,  have plunged into Balaam’s error  for profit, and have perished in Korah’s rebellion.

1 Timothy 3:3

not an excessive drinker, not a bully but gentle, not quarrelsome, not greedy.

Amos 9:10

All the sinners among my people who say, ‘Disaster will never overtake or confront us,’ will die by the sword.

Hosea 4:18

When their drinking is over, they turn to promiscuity. Israel’s leaders  fervently love disgrace.

Isaiah 56:11

These dogs have fierce appetites; they never have enough. And they are shepherds who have no discernment; all of them turn to their own way, every last one for his own profit.

Matthew 3:9

And don’t presume to say to yourselves, “We have Abraham as our father.”  For I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones.

Malachi 1:10

‘I wish one of you would shut the temple doors,  so that you would no longer kindle a useless fire on my altar!  I am not pleased with you,’ says the Lord of Armies, ‘and I will accept  no offering from your hands.

Zephaniah 3:3

The  princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are wolves of the night, which leave nothing for   the morning.

Ezekiel 22:27

‘Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives in order to make profit dishonestly.

Ezekiel 22:12

People who live in you accept bribes in order to shed blood.  You take interest and profit on a loan and brutally extort your neighbours.  You have forgotten me.  This is the declaration of the Lord God.

Proverbs 17:23

A wicked person secretly takes a bribe to subvert the course of justice.

Isaiah 5:23

who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.

Jeremiah 23:17

They keep on saying to those who despise me,  “The Lord has spoken: You will have peace.”  They have said to everyone who follows the stubbornness of his heart, “No harm will come to you.” ’

Jeremiah 26:7

The priests, the prophets, and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the temple of the Lord.

Ezekiel 34:2

‘Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and say to them, “This is what the Lord God says to the shepherds: Woe to the shepherds of Israel, who have been feeding themselves!  Shouldn’t the shepherds feed their flock?

Hosea 4:8

They feed on the sin  of my people; they have an appetite for their iniquity.

Amos 5:14

Pursue good and not evil so that you may live, and the Lord, the God of Armies, will be with you as you have claimed.

Malachi 2:9

‘So I in turn have made you despised  and humiliated before all the people because you are not keeping my ways but are showing partiality in your instruction.’

Numbers 22:7

The elders of Moab and Midian departed with fees for divination  in hand.  They came to Balaam and reported Balak’s words to him.

Jeremiah 5:12

They have contradicted the  Lord and insisted, ‘It won’t happen.  , Harm won’t come to us; we won’t see sword or famine.’

Zephaniah 3:4

Her prophets are reckless   – treacherous men. Her priests profane the sanctuary; they do violence to instruction.