Micah 6:12

New American Bible - revised edition

You whose wealthy are full of violence, whose inhabitants speak falsehood with deceitful tongues in their mouths!

Cross References

Psalm 120:2

Lord, deliver my soul from lying lips, from a treacherous tongue.

Psalm 35:20

They speak no words of peace, but against the quiet in the land they fashion deceitful speech.

Psalm 78:36

But they deceived him with their mouths, lied to him with their tongues.

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.

Isaiah 3:8

Jerusalem has stumbled, Judah has fallen; for their speech and deeds affront the Lord, a provocation in the sight of his majesty.

Isaiah 5:7

The vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, the people of Judah, his cherished plant; He waited for judgment, but see, bloodshed! for justice, but hark, the outcry!

Jeremiah 9:8

Should I not punish them for these deeds—oracle of the Lord; on a nation such as this should I not take vengeance?

Hosea 7:1

when I would have healed Israel, The guilt of Ephraim was revealed, the wickedness of Samaria: They practiced falsehood. Thieves break in, bandits roam outside.

Hosea 7:13

Woe to them, for they have strayed from me! Ruin to them, for they have rebelled against me! Though I wished to redeem them, they spoke lies against me.

Amos 2:4

Thus says the Lord: For three crimes of Judah, and now four— I will not take it back— Because they spurned the instruction of the Lord, and did not keep his statutes; Because the lies which their ancestors followed have led them astray,

Amos 6:4

Those who lie on beds of ivory, and lounge upon their couches; Eating lambs taken from the flock, and calves from the stall;

Zephaniah 1:9

I will punish, on that day, all who leap over the threshold, Who fill the house of their master with violence and deceit.

Zephaniah 3:3

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

Acts 24:9

The Jews also joined in the attack and asserted that these things were so.

Romans 3:13

Their throats are open graves; they deceive with their tongues; the venom of asps is on their lips;