Micah 6:12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Your wealthy are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies with tongues of deceit in their mouths.

Cross References

Psalm 120:2

“Deliver me, O Lord, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.”

Psalm 35:20

For they do not speak peace, but they conceive deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

Psalm 78:36

But they flattered him with their mouths; they lied to him with their tongues.

Isaiah 1:23

Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend the orphan, and the widow’s cause does not come before them.

Isaiah 3:8

For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because their speech and their deeds are against the Lord, defying his glorious presence.

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah are his cherished garden; he expected justice but saw bloodshed; righteousness but heard a cry!

Jeremiah 9:8

Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit through the mouth. They all speak friendly words to their neighbors but inwardly are planning to lay an ambush.

Hosea 7:1

when I would heal Israel, the corruption of Ephraim is revealed, and the wicked deeds of Samaria, for they deal falsely; the thief breaks in, and the bandits raid outside.

Hosea 7:13

Woe to them, for they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me! I would redeem them, but they speak lies against me.

Amos 2:4

Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have rejected the instruction of the Lord and have not kept his statutes, but they have been led astray by the same lies after which their ancestors walked.

Amos 6:4

Woe to those who lie on beds of ivory and lounge on their couches and eat lambs from the flock and calves from the stall,

Zephaniah 1:9

On that day I will punish all who leap over the threshold, who fill their master’s house with violence and fraud.

Zephaniah 3:3

The officials within it are roaring lions; its judges are evening wolves that leave nothing until the morning.

Acts 24:9

The Jews also joined in the charge by asserting that all this was true.

Romans 3:13

“Their throats are opened graves; they use their tongues to deceive.” “The venom of vipers is under their lips.”