Micah 3:11

New American Bible - revised edition

Its leaders render judgment for a bribe, the priests teach for pay, the prophets divine for money, While they rely on the Lord, saying, “Is not the Lord in the midst of us? No evil can come upon us!”

Cross References

Jeremiah 6:13

Small and great alike, all are greedy for gain; prophet and priest, all practice fraud.

Isaiah 1:23

Your princes are rebels and comrades of thieves; Each one of them loves a bribe and looks for gifts. The fatherless they do not defend, the widow’s plea does not reach them.

Micah 3:5

Thus says the Lord regarding the prophets: O you who lead my people astray, When your teeth have something to bite you announce peace, But proclaim war against the one who fails to put something in your mouth.

Jeremiah 7:4

Do not put your trust in these deceptive words: “The temple of the Lord! The temple of the Lord! The temple of the Lord!”

1 Peter 5:2

Tend the flock of God in your midst, [overseeing] not by constraint but willingly, as God would have it, not for shameful profit but eagerly.

Titus 1:11

It is imperative to silence them, as they are upsetting whole families by teaching for sordid gain what they should not.

Micah 7:3

Their hands succeed at evil; the prince makes demands, The judge is bought for a price, the powerful speak as they please.

Isaiah 48:2

Though you are named after the holy city and rely on the God of Israel, whose name is the Lord of hosts.

Jeremiah 8:10

Therefore, I will give their wives to other men, their fields to new owners. Small and great alike, all are greedy for gain, prophet and priest, all practice fraud.

1 Samuel 8:3

His sons did not follow his example, but looked to their own gain, accepting bribes and perverting justice.

Numbers 16:15

Then Moses became very angry and said to the Lord, “Pay no attention to their offering. I have never taken a single donkey from them, nor have I wronged any one of them.” Korah.

Jude 1:11

Woe to them! They followed the way of Cain, abandoned themselves to Balaam’s error for the sake of gain, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

1 Timothy 3:3

not a drunkard, not aggressive, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money.

Amos 9:10

All sinners among my people shall die by the sword, those who say, “Disaster will not reach or overtake us.”

Hosea 4:18

When their drinking is over, they give themselves to prostitution; they love shame more than their honor.

Isaiah 56:11

Yes, the dogs have a ravenous appetite; they never know satiety, Shepherds who have no understanding; all have turned their own way, each one covetous for gain:

Matthew 3:9

And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you, God can raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

Malachi 1:10

Oh, that one of you would just shut the temple gates to keep you from kindling fire on my altar in vain! I take no pleasure in you, says the Lord of hosts; and I will not accept any offering from your hands!

Zephaniah 3:3

Its officials within it are roaring lions; Its judges are desert wolves that have no bones to gnaw by morning.

Ezekiel 22:27

Within her, her officials are like wolves tearing prey, shedding blood and destroying lives to extort profit.

Ezekiel 22:12

There are those in you who take bribes to shed blood. You exact interest and usury; you extort profit from your neighbor by violence. But me you have forgotten—oracle of the Lord God.

Proverbs 17:23

A guilty person takes out a bribe from the pocket, thus perverting the course of justice.

Isaiah 5:23

Those who acquit the guilty for bribes, and deprive the innocent of justice!

Jeremiah 23:17

They say to those who despise the word of the Lord, “Peace shall be yours”; And to everyone who walks in hardness of heart, “No evil shall overtake you.”

Jeremiah 26:7

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

Ezekiel 34:2

Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and say to them: To the shepherds, thus says the Lord God: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who have been pasturing themselves! Should not shepherds pasture the flock?

Hosea 4:8

They feed on the sin of my people, and are greedy for their iniquity.

Amos 5:14

Seek good and not evil, that you may live; Then truly the Lord, the God of hosts, will be with you as you claim.

Malachi 2:9

I, therefore, have made you contemptible and base before all the people, For you do not keep my ways, but show partiality in your instruction.

Numbers 22:7

So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian, themselves experts in divination, left and went to Balaam, to whom they gave Balak’s message.

Jeremiah 5:12

They denied the Lord, saying, “He is nothing, No evil shall come to us, neither sword nor famine shall we see.

Zephaniah 3:4

Its prophets are reckless, treacherous people; Its priests profane what is holy, and do violence to the law.