Micah 3:2

English Standard Version 2016

you who hate the good and love the evil, who tear the skin from off my people and their flesh from off their bones,

Cross References

Ezekiel 22:27

Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain.

Proverbs 28:4

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law strive against them.

Psalm 53:4

Have those who work evil no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon God?

Romans 12:9

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

Isaiah 3:15

What do you mean by crushing my people, by grinding the face of the poor?” declares the Lord God of hosts.

2 Chronicles 19:2

But Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord? Because of this, wrath has gone out against you from the Lord.

1 Kings 21:20

Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, O my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the Lord.

2 Timothy 3:3

heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,

Romans 1:32

Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.

John 18:40

They cried out again, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.

Luke 19:14

But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’

Zephaniah 3:3

Her officials within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves that leave nothing till the morning.

Ezekiel 34:3

You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fat ones, but you do not feed the sheep.

Psalm 15:4

in whose eyes a vile person is despised, but who honors those who fear the Lord; who swears to his own hurt and does not change;

Isaiah 57:12

I will declare your righteousness and your deeds, but they will not profit you.

Ezekiel 11:7

Therefore thus says the Lord God: Your slain whom you have laid in the midst of it, they are the meat, and this city is the cauldron, but you shall be brought out of the midst of it.

Ezekiel 24:4

put in it the pieces of meat, all the good pieces, the thigh and the shoulder; fill it with choice bones.

Micah 2:8

But lately my people have risen up as an enemy; you strip the rich robe from those who pass by trustingly with no thought of war.

Micah 7:2

The godly has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among mankind; they all lie in wait for blood, and each hunts the other with a net.

Micah 7:3

Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together.

Isaiah 5:20

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

Amos 4:1

“Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to your husbands, ‘Bring, that we may drink!’

Amos 5:15

Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.