Micah 3:2

New American Bible - revised edition

you who hate what is good, and love evil? You who tear their skin from them, and their flesh from their bones;

Cross References

1 Kings 21:20

Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me out, my enemy?” He said, “I have found you. Because you have given yourself up to doing evil in the Lord’s sight,

2 Chronicles 19:2

Jehu the seer, son of Hanani, went out to meet King Jehoshaphat and said to him: “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord? For this reason, wrath is upon you from the Lord.

Psalm 15:4

Who disdains the wicked, but honors those who fear the Lord; Who keeps an oath despite the cost,

Psalm 53:4

All have gone astray; each one is altogether perverse. There is not one who does what is good, not even one.

Proverbs 28:4

Those who abandon instruction praise the wicked, but those who keep instruction oppose them.

Isaiah 3:15

What do you mean by crushing my people, and grinding down the faces of the poor? says the Lord, the God of hosts.

Isaiah 5:20

Ah! Those who call evil good, and good evil, who change darkness to light, and light into darkness, who change bitter to sweet, and sweet into bitter!

Isaiah 57:12

I will proclaim your justice and your works; but they shall not help you.

Ezekiel 11:7

Therefore thus says the Lord God: The slain whom you piled up in it, that is the meat, the pot is the city. But you I will bring out of it.

Ezekiel 22:27

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

Ezekiel 24:4

Add to it pieces of meat, all choice pieces; With thigh and shoulder, with choice cuts fill it.

Ezekiel 34:3

You consumed milk, wore wool, and slaughtered fatlings, but the flock you did not pasture.

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who live on the mount of Samaria: Who oppress the destitute and abuse the needy; Who say to your husbands, “Bring us a drink!”

Amos 5:15

Hate evil and love good, and let justice prevail at the gate; Then it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts, will have pity on the remnant of Joseph.

Micah 2:8

But you rise up against my people as an enemy: you have stripped off the garment from the peaceful, From those who go their way in confidence, as though it were spoils of war.

Micah 7:2

The faithful have vanished from the earth, no mortal is just! They all lie in wait to shed blood, each one ensnares the other.

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.

Zephaniah 3:3

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

Luke 19:14

His fellow citizens, however, despised him and sent a delegation after him to announce, ‘We do not want this man to be our king.’

John 18:40

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

John 7:7

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

Romans 1:32

Although they know the just decree of God that all who practice such things deserve death, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.

Romans 12:9

Let love be sincere; hate what is evil, hold on to what is good;

2 Timothy 3:3

callous, implacable, slanderous, licentious, brutal, hating what is good,