Micah 3:2

New Century Version

but you hate good and love evil. You skin my people alive and tear the flesh off their bones.

Cross References

1 Kings 21:20

When Ahab saw Elijah, he said, “So you have found me, my enemy!” Elijah answered, “Yes, I have found you. You have always chosen to do what the Lord says is wrong.

2 Chronicles 19:2

Jehu son of Hanani, a seer, went out to meet him and said to the king, “Why did you help evil people? Why do you love those who hate the Lord? That is the reason the Lord is angry with you.

Psalm 15:4

They do not respect hateful people but honor those who honor the Lord. They keep their promises to their neighbors, even when it hurts.

Psalm 53:4

Don’t the wicked understand? They destroy my people as if they were eating bread. They do not ask God for help.

Proverbs 28:4

Those who disobey what they have been taught praise the wicked, but those who obey what they have been taught are against them.

Isaiah 3:15

What gives you the right to crush my people and grind the faces of the poor into the dirt?” The Lord God All-Powerful says this.

Isaiah 5:20

How terrible it will be for people who call good things bad and bad things good, who think darkness is light and light is darkness, who think sour is sweet and sweet is sour.

Isaiah 57:12

I will tell about your ‘goodness’ and what you do, and those things will do you no good.

Ezekiel 11:7

“So this is what the Lord God says: Those people you have killed and left in the middle of the city are like the best meat, and this city is like the cooking pot. But I will force you out of the city.

Ezekiel 22:27

Like wolves tearing a dead animal, Jerusalem’s leaders have killed people for profit.

Ezekiel 24:4

Put in the pieces of meat, the best pieces—the legs and the shoulders. Fill it with the best bones.

Ezekiel 34:3

You eat the milk curds, and you clothe yourselves with the wool. You kill the fat sheep, but you do not feed the flock.

Amos 4:1

Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan on the Mountain of Samaria. You take things from the poor and crush people who are in need. Then you command your husbands, “Bring us something to drink!”

Amos 5:15

Hate evil and love good; be fair in the courts. Maybe the Lord God All-Powerful will be kind to the people of Joseph who are left alive.

Micah 2:8

But you are fighting against my people like an enemy. You take the coats from people who pass by; you rob them of their safety; you plan war.

Micah 7:2

All of the faithful people are gone; there is not one good person left in this country. Everyone is waiting to kill someone; everyone is trying to trap someone else.

Micah 7:3

With both hands they are doing evil. Rulers ask for money, and judges’ decisions are bought for a price. Rich people tell what they want, and they get it.

Zephaniah 3:3

Its officers are like roaring lions. Its rulers are like hungry wolves that attack in the evening, and in the morning nothing is left of those they attacked.

Luke 19:14

But the people in the kingdom hated the man. So they sent a group to follow him and say, ‘We don’t want this man to be our king.’

John 18:40

They shouted back, “No, not him! Let Barabbas go free!” (Barabbas was a robber.)

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I tell it the evil things it does.

Romans 1:32

They know God’s law says that those who live like this should die. But they themselves not only continue to do these evil things, they applaud others who do them.

Romans 12:9

Your love must be real. Hate what is evil, and hold on to what is good.

2 Timothy 3:3

They will not love others, will refuse to forgive, will gossip, and will not control themselves. They will be cruel, will hate what is good,