Micah 3:2

New English Translation

yet you hate what is good, and love what is evil. You flay my people’s skin and rip the flesh from their bones.

Cross References

1 Kings 21:20

When Elijah arrived, Ahab said to him, “So, you have found me, my enemy!” Elijah replied, “I have found you, because you are committed to doing evil in the sight of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 19:2

the prophet Jehu son of Hanani confronted him; he said to King Jehoshaphat, “Is it right to help the wicked and be an ally of those who oppose the Lord? Because you have done this the Lord is angry with you!

Psalm 15:4

He despises a reprobate, but honors the Lord’s loyal followers. He makes firm commitments and does not renege on his promise.

Psalm 53:4

All those who behave wickedly do not understand – those who devour my people as if they were eating bread, and do not call out to God.

Proverbs 28:4

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law contend with them.

Isaiah 3:15

Why do you crush my people and grind the faces of the poor?” The sovereign Lord who commands armies has spoken.

Isaiah 5:20

Those who call evil good and good evil are as good as dead, who turn darkness into light and light into darkness, who turn bitter into sweet and sweet into bitter.

Isaiah 57:12

I will denounce your so-called righteousness and your deeds, but they will not help you.

Ezekiel 11:7

Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says: ‘The corpses you have dumped in the midst of the city are the meat, and this city is the cooking pot, but I will take you out of it.

Ezekiel 22:27

Her officials are like wolves in her midst rending their prey – shedding blood and destroying lives – so they can get dishonest profit.

Ezekiel 24:4

add the pieces of meat to it, every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder; fill it with choice bones.

Ezekiel 34:3

You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the choice animals, but you do not feed the sheep!

Amos 4:1

Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan who live on Mount Samaria! You oppress the poor; you crush the needy. You say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink!”

Amos 5:15

Hate what is wrong, love what is right! Promote justice at the city gate! Maybe the Lord, the God who commands armies, will have mercy on those who are left from Joseph.

Micah 2:8

but you rise up as an enemy against my people. You steal a robe from a friend, from those who pass by peacefully as if returning from a war.

Micah 7:2

Faithful men have disappeared from the land; there are no godly men left. They all wait in ambush so they can shed blood; they hunt their own brother with a net.

Micah 7:3

They are determined to be experts at doing evil; government officials and judges take bribes, prominent men make demands, and they all do what is necessary to satisfy them.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes are as fierce as roaring lions; her rulers are as hungry as wolves in the desert, who completely devour their prey by morning.

Luke 19:14

But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to be king over us!’

John 18:40

Then they shouted back, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” (Now Barabbas was a revolutionary.)

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.

Romans 1:32

Although they fully know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but also approve of those who practice them.

Romans 12:9

Love must be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil, cling to what is good.

2 Timothy 3:3

unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, savage, opposed to what is good,