Micah 3:2

Good News Translation (US Version)

yet you hate what is good and you love what is evil. You skin my people alive and tear the flesh off their bones.

Cross References

Ezekiel 22:27

The government officials are like wolves tearing apart the animals they have killed. They commit murder in order to get rich.

Proverbs 28:4

If you have no regard for the law, you are on the side of the wicked; but if you obey it, you are against them.

Psalm 53:4

“Don't they know?” God asks. “Are these evildoers ignorant? They live by robbing my people, and they never pray to me.”

Romans 12:9

Love must be completely sincere. Hate what is evil, hold on to what is good.

Isaiah 3:15

You have no right to crush my people and take advantage of the poor. I, the Sovereign Lord Almighty, have spoken.”

2 Chronicles 19:2

A prophet, Jehu son of Hanani, went to meet the king and said to him, “Do you think it is right to help those who are wicked and to take the side of those who hate the Lord? What you have done has brought the Lord's anger on you.

1 Kings 21:20

When Ahab saw Elijah, he said, “Have you caught up with me, my enemy?” “Yes, I have,” Elijah answered. “You have devoted yourself completely to doing what is wrong in the Lord's sight.

2 Timothy 3:3

they will be unkind, merciless, slanderers, violent, and fierce; they will hate the good;

Romans 1:32

They know that God's law says that people who live in this way deserve death. Yet, not only do they continue to do these very things, but they even approve of others who do them.

John 18:40

They answered him with a shout, “No, not him! We want Barabbas!” (Barabbas was a bandit.)

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I keep telling it that its ways are bad.

Luke 19:14

Now, his own people hated him, and so they sent messengers after him to say, ‘We don't want this man to be our king.’

Zephaniah 3:3

Its officials are like roaring lions; its judges are like hungry wolves, too greedy to leave a bone until morning.

Ezekiel 34:3

You drink the milk, wear clothes made from the wool, and kill and eat the finest sheep. But you never tend the sheep.

Psalm 15:4

They despise those whom God rejects, but honor those who obey the Lord. They always do what they promise, no matter how much it may cost.

Isaiah 57:12

You think that what you do is right, but I will expose your conduct, and your idols will not be able to help you.

Ezekiel 11:7

“So this is what I, the Sovereign Lord, am saying to you. This city is a cooking pot all right, but what is the meat? The corpses of those you have killed! You will not be here—I will throw you out of the city!

Ezekiel 24:4

Put in the best pieces of meat— the shoulders and the legs— fill it with choice bony pieces too.

Micah 2:8

The Lord replies, “You attack my people like enemies. Men return from battle, thinking they are safe at home, but there you are, waiting to steal the coats off their backs.

Micah 7:2

There is not an honest person left in the land, no one loyal to God. Everyone is waiting for a chance to commit murder. Everyone hunts down their own people.

Micah 7:3

They are all experts at doing evil. Officials and judges ask for bribes. The influential people tell them what they want, and so they scheme together.

Isaiah 5:20

You are doomed! You call evil good and call good evil. You turn darkness into light and light into darkness. You make what is bitter sweet, and what is sweet you make bitter.

Amos 4:1

Listen to this, you women of Samaria, who grow fat like the well-fed cows of Bashan, who mistreat the weak, oppress the poor, and demand that your husbands keep you supplied with liquor!

Amos 5:15

Hate what is evil, love what is right, and see that justice prevails in the courts. Perhaps the Lord will be merciful to the people of this nation who are still left alive.