Micah 6:12

Tree of Life Version

For the rich of the city are full of violence and its inhabitants speak lies. Their tongue in their mouth is deceit.

Cross References

Psalm 120:2

Adonai, deliver my soul from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.

Psalm 35:20

For they never speak shalom, but devise deceitful words against the quiet ones in the land.

Psalm 78:36

But they flattered Him with their mouth and kept lying to Him with their tongue.

Isaiah 1:23

Your princes are rebellious and friends with thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and chases after rewards. They do not defend the orphan, nor does a widow’s case come to them.

Isaiah 3:8

For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah is fallen. For their tongue and their actions are against Adonai, defying the eyes of His glory.

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of Adonai-Tzva’ot is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah the planting of His delight. He looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed, for righteousness, but behold, a cry!

Jeremiah 9:8

For such things shall I not punish them?” It is a declaration of Adonai. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?”

Hosea 7:1

“When I would have healed Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, even the wickedness of Samaria, for they practice fraud. So a thief breaks in; a marauding band will raid outside.

Hosea 7:13

Oy to them! For they strayed from Me. Devastation to them! For they rebelled against Me. Should I redeem them after they spoke lies about Me?

Amos 2:4

Thus says Adonai: “For three crimes of Judah even for four, I will not relent. For they despise Adonai’s Torah and have not kept His statutes. Their lies have misled them— those their fathers walked after.

Amos 6:4

Reclining on beds of ivory, sprawling on their couches, dining on lambs from the flock and calves from amid the stall,

Zephaniah 1:9

In that day I will punish all who skip over the threshold while filling their master’s House with violence and deceit.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are wolves of the night, leaving nothing but bones for morning.

Acts 24:9

The Judean leaders also joined in the attack, affirming that these things were true.

Romans 3:13

Their throat is an open grave; with their tongues they keep deceiving. The poison of vipers is under their lips.