Micah 3:2

Modern English Version

You who hate good and love evil, who tear the skin from My people and the flesh from their bones;

Cross References

1 Kings 21:20

Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?” And he answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to work evil in the sight of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 19:2

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

Psalm 15:4

in whose eyes a vile person is despised, but who honors those who fear the Lord; he who swears against harm and does not change;

Psalm 53:4

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call on God?

Proverbs 28:4

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law contend with them.

Isaiah 3:15

What do you mean that you beat My people to pieces and grind the faces of the poor? says the Lord God of Hosts.

Isaiah 5:20

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

Isaiah 57:12

I will declare your righteousness, and your works, yet they shall 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 flesh and this city is the cauldron. But I will bring you out of the midst of it.

Ezekiel 22:27

Her officials in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey by shedding blood and destroying lives in order to obtain dishonest gain.

Ezekiel 24:4

Gather the pieces into it, even every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder. Fill it with the choice bones;

Ezekiel 34:3

You eat the fat and clothe yourself with the wool; you kill those who are fed without feeding the flock.

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to their husbands, “Bring us something to drink!”

Amos 5:15

Hate evil and love good, and establish justice at the gate. It may then be that the Lord God of Hosts will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

Micah 2:8

But lately My people rise up like an enemy. You strip off the rich robe from those who pass by trustingly, like men returning from war.

Micah 7:2

The godly has perished from the earth, and no one is upright among men. All of them lie in wait for bloodshed; each hunts his brother with a net.

Micah 7:3

Both hands are upon evil, to do it well. The prince and the judge request the bribe, the powerful asserts the craving of his very soul— they intertwine together.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves who leave nothing until the morning.

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.’

John 18:40

They all shouted 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 concerning it, that its works are evil.

Romans 1:32

who know the righteous requirement of God, that those who commit such things are worthy of death. They not only do them, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.

Romans 12:9

Let love be without hypocrisy. Hate what is evil. Cling to what is good.

2 Timothy 3:3

without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, unrestrained, fierce, despisers of those who are good,