Micah 7:3

Modern King James Version

Both hands are on evil, to do it well. The ruler asks for a bribe, and the judge also; and the great man speaks the evil desire of his soul. So they weave it together.

Cross References

Proverbs 16:30

He shuts his eyes to think of perverse things; moving his lips, he brings evil to pass.

Proverbs 17:23

A wicked man takes a bribe out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.

Isaiah 1:23

your rulers are rebellious, and companions of thieves; everyone loves a bribe, and is pursuing rewards; they do not judge the orphan, nor does the cause of the widow come to them.

Isaiah 26:21

For behold, Jehovah comes out of His place to punish the people of the earth for their iniquity; the earth also shall reveal her blood, and shall no more cover her dead.

Isaiah 3:5

And the people shall be crushed, every man by another, and every man by his neighbor; the boy shall act proudly against the old man, and the low against the honorable.

Isaiah 32:7

Also the weapons of the fool are evil; he thinks of wicked ways to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

Isaiah 5:23

who justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

Jeremiah 3:5

Will He keep His anger forever? Will He keep it to the end? Behold, you have spoken and done all the evil things you could do.

Jeremiah 4:22

For My people are foolish; they have not known Me; they are stupid sons, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Jeremiah 8:10

Therefore I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who shall inherit them, for everyone from the least even to the greatest cuts off a profit. From the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.

Ezekiel 22:12

In you they have taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken usury and increase, and you gained by extortion of your neighbors, and you have forgotten Me, says the Lord Jehovah.

Ezekiel 22:27

Her rulers in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood and to destroy souls, to get unjust gain.

Ezekiel 22:6

Behold, the rulers of Israel, each man by his might, have been in you in order to shed blood.

Ezekiel 34:21

Because you have thrust with side and with shoulder, and have pushed all the weak with your horns until you have scattered them to the outside,

Ezekiel 9:9

And He said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is great, and the land is full of blood, and the city is full of perversity. For they say, Jehovah has forsaken the land; and, Jehovah does not see.

Hosea 4:18

Their drink is sour; they are continually fornicating; her rulers dearly love shame.

Hosea 7:3

They make the king glad with their evil, and the rulers with their lies.

Amos 5:12

For I know your many transgressions and your many sins. They afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate.

Micah 2:8

Even yesterday, My people has risen up like an enemy; you strip off a cloak along with an outer robe, from those who pass by trustingly, those returning from war.

Micah 3:11

Her heads judge for a bribe, and her priests teach for pay, and her prophets divine for silver, yet they will lean on Jehovah and say, Is not Jehovah among us? No evil can come on us!

Micah 3:2

You who hate the good and love the evil; who pull their skin off them, and their flesh from their bones;

Matthew 26:15

And he said to them, What will you give me, and I will betray Him to you? And they appointed to him thirty pieces of silver.

1 Corinthians 4:5

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts. And then shall each one have praise of God.