Micah 3:2 Cross References

Micah 3:2

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

Ezekiel 22:27

  1. Your leaders are like wolves, who tear apart their victims. They actually destroy people's lives for profit!

Proverbs 28:4

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

Psalms 53:4

  1. Will those who do evil never learn? They eat up my people like bread; they wouldn't think of praying to God.

Romans 12:9

  1. Don't just pretend that you love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong. Stand on the side of the good.

1 Kings 22:6

  1. So King Ahab summoned his prophets, about four hundred of them, and asked them, "Should I go to war against Ramoth-gilead or not?" They all replied, "Go right ahead! The Lord will give you a glorious victory!"
  2. But Jehoshaphat asked, "Isn't there a prophet of the LORD around, too? I would like to ask him the same question."
  3. King Ahab replied, "There is still one prophet of the LORD, but I hate him. He never prophesies anything but bad news for me! His name is Micaiah son of Imlah.You shouldn't talk like that," Jehoshaphat said. "Let's hear what he has to say."

1 Kings 21:20

  1. "So my enemy has 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

  1. 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. "What you have done has brought the LORD's anger against you.

Psalms 15:4

  1. Those who despise persistent sinners, and honor the faithful followers of the LORD and keep their promises even when it hurts.

Isaiah 3:15

  1. How dare you grind my people into the dust like that!" demands the Lord, the LORD Almighty.

Amos 5:10

  1. How you hate honest judges! How you despise people who tell the truth!
  2. You trample the poor and steal what little they have through taxes and unfair rent. Therefore, you will never live in the beautiful stone houses you are building. You will never drink wine from the lush vineyards you are planting.
  3. For I know the vast number of your sins and rebellions. You oppress good people by taking bribes and deprive the poor of justice in the courts.
  4. So those who are wise will keep quiet, for it is an evil time.
  5. Do what is good and run from evil--that you may live! Then the LORD God Almighty will truly be your helper, just as you have claimed he is.

John 18:40

  1. But they shouted back, "No! Not this man, but Barabbas!" (Barabbas was a criminal.)

Acts 7:51

  1. "You stubborn people! You are heathen at heart and deaf to the truth. Must you forever resist the Holy Spirit? But your ancestors did, and so do you!
  2. Name one prophet your ancestors didn't persecute! They even killed the ones who predicted the coming of the Righteous One--the Messiah whom you betrayed and murdered.

Ezekiel 34:3

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

2 Timothy 3:3

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

Romans 1:32

  1. They are fully aware of God's death penalty for those who do these things, yet they go right ahead and do them anyway. And, worse yet, they encourage others to do them, too.

Amos 8:4

  1. Listen to this, you who rob the poor and trample the needy!
  2. You can't wait for the Sabbath day to be over and the religious festivals to end so you can get back to cheating the helpless. You measure out your grain in false measures and weigh it out on dishonest scales.
  3. And you mix the wheat you sell with chaff swept from the floor! Then you enslave poor people for a debt of one piece of silver or a pair of sandals.

Zechariah 11:4

  1. This is what the LORD my God says: "Go and care for a flock that is intended for slaughter.
  2. The buyers will slaughter their sheep without remorse. The sellers will say, `Praise the LORD, I am now rich!' Even the shepherds have no compassion for them.

John 15:18

  1. "When the world hates you, remember it hated me before it hated you.
  2. The world would love you if you belonged to it, but you don't. I chose you to come out of the world, and so it hates you.

Psalms 139:21

  1. O LORD, shouldn't I hate those who hate you? Shouldn't I despise those who resist you?
  2. Yes, I hate them with complete hatred, for your enemies are my enemies.

Luke 19:14

  1. But his people hated him and sent a delegation after him to say they did not want him to be their king.

John 7:7

  1. The world can't hate you, but it does hate me because I accuse it of sin and evil.

John 15:23

  1. Anyone who hates me hates my Father, too.
  2. If I hadn't done such miraculous signs among them that no one else could do, they would not be counted guilty. But as it is, they saw all that I did and yet hated both of us--me and my Father.

Zephaniah 3:3

  1. Its leaders are like roaring lions hunting for their victims--out for everything they can get. Its judges are like ravenous wolves at evening time, who by dawn have left no trace of their prey.
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