Micah 6:12

New International Version

Your rich people are violent; your inhabitants are liars and their tongues speak deceitfully.

Cross References

Hosea 7:13

Woe to them, because they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, because they have rebelled against me! I long to redeem them but they speak about me falsely.

Jeremiah 9:8

Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceitfully. With their mouths they all speak cordially to their neighbors, but in their hearts they set traps for them.

Isaiah 1:23

Your rulers are rebels, partners with thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow’s case does not come before them.

Isaiah 5:7

The vineyard of the Lord Almighty is the nation of Israel, and the people of Judah are the vines he delighted in. And he looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard cries of distress.

Isaiah 3:8

Jerusalem staggers, Judah is falling; their words and deeds are against the Lord, defying his glorious presence.

Romans 3:13

“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The poison of vipers is on their lips.”

Zephaniah 3:3

Her officials within her are roaring lions; her rulers are evening wolves, who leave nothing for the morning.

Hosea 7:1

whenever I would heal Israel, the sins of Ephraim are exposed and the crimes of Samaria revealed. They practice deceit, thieves break into houses, bandits rob in the streets;

Psalm 35:20

They do not speak peaceably, but devise false accusations against those who live quietly in the land.

Amos 2:4

This is what the Lord says: “For three sins of Judah, even for four, I will not relent. Because they have rejected the law of the Lord and have not kept his decrees, because they have been led astray by false gods, the gods their ancestors followed,

Amos 6:4

You lie on beds adorned with ivory and lounge on your couches. You dine on choice lambs and fattened calves.

Psalm 78:36

But then they would flatter him with their mouths, lying to him with their tongues;

Psalm 120:2

Save me, Lord, from lying lips and from deceitful tongues.

Zephaniah 1:9

On that day I will punish all who avoid stepping on the threshold, who fill the temple of their gods with violence and deceit.

Acts 24:9

The other Jews joined in the accusation, asserting that these things were true.