Micah 3:2

New Living Translation

but you are the very ones who hate good and love evil. You skin my people alive and tear the flesh from their bones.

Cross References

1 Kings 21:20

“So, my enemy, you have found me!” Ahab exclaimed to Elijah. “Yes,” Elijah answered, “I have come because you have sold yourself to what is evil in the Lord’s sight.

2 Chronicles 19:2

Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him. “Why should you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord?” he asked the king. “Because of what you have done, the Lord is very angry with you.

Psalm 15:4

Those who despise flagrant sinners, and honor the faithful followers of the Lord, and keep their promises even when it hurts.

Psalm 53:4

Will those who do evil never learn? They eat up my people like bread and wouldn’t think of praying to God.

Proverbs 28:4

To reject the law is to praise the wicked; to obey the law is to fight them.

Isaiah 3:15

How dare you crush my people, grinding the faces of the poor into the dust?” demands the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.

Isaiah 5:20

What sorrow for those who say that evil is good and good is evil, that dark is light and light is dark, that bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter.

Isaiah 57:12

Now I will expose your so-called good deeds. None of them will help you.

Ezekiel 11:7

“Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: This city is an iron pot all right, but the pieces of meat are the victims of your injustice. As for you, I will soon drag you from this pot.

Ezekiel 22:27

Your leaders are like wolves who tear apart their victims. They actually destroy people’s lives for money!

Ezekiel 24:4

Fill it with choice pieces of meat— the rump and the shoulder and all the most tender cuts.

Ezekiel 34:3

You drink the milk, wear the wool, and butcher the best animals, but you let your flocks starve.

Amos 4:1

Listen to me, you fat cows living in Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, and who are always calling to your husbands, “Bring us another drink!”

Amos 5:15

Hate evil and love what is good; turn your courts into true halls of justice. Perhaps even yet the Lord God of Heaven’s Armies will have mercy on the remnant of his people.

Micah 2:8

Yet to this very hour my people rise against me like an enemy! You steal the shirts right off the backs of those who trusted you, making them as ragged as men returning from battle.

Micah 7:2

The godly people have all disappeared; not one honest person is left on the earth. They are all murderers, setting traps even for their own brothers.

Micah 7:3

Both their hands are equally skilled at doing evil! Officials and judges alike demand bribes. The people with influence get what they want, and together they scheme to twist justice.

Zephaniah 3:3

Its leaders are like roaring lions hunting for their victims. Its judges are like ravenous wolves at evening time, who by dawn have left no trace of their prey.

Luke 19:14

But his people hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want him to be our king.’

John 18:40

But they shouted back, “No! Not this man. We want Barabbas!” (Barabbas was a revolutionary.)

John 7:7

The world can’t hate you, but it does hate me because I accuse it of doing evil.

Romans 1:32

They know God’s justice requires that those who do these things deserve to die, yet they do them anyway. Worse yet, they encourage others to do them, too.

Romans 12:9

Don’t just pretend to love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong. Hold tightly to what is good.

2 Timothy 3:3

They will be unloving and unforgiving; they will slander others and have no self-control. They will be cruel and hate what is good.