Micah 6:12

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Your rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

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 against those who are quiet in the land they conceive words of deceit.

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. Every one loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend the fatherless, and the widow's cause does not come to 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 men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, a cry!

Jeremiah 9:8

Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceitfully; with his mouth each speaks peaceably to his neighbor, but in his heart he plans an ambush for him.

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 without.

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 law of the Lord, and have not kept his statutes, but their lies have led them astray, after which their fathers walked.

Amos 6:4

“Woe to those who lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat lambs from the flock, and calves from the midst of the stall;

Zephaniah 1:9

On that day I will punish every one who leaps over the threshold, and those who fill their master's house with violence and fraud.”

Zephaniah 3:3

Her officials within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves that leave nothing till the morning.

Acts 24:9

The Jews also joined in the charge, affirming that all this was so.

Romans 3:13

“Their throat is an open grave, they use their tongues to deceive.” “The venom of asps is under their lips.”