Micah 3:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones.”
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“You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;”
King James Version · Public Domain“ye who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Ye who are hating good, and loving evil, Taking violently their skin from off them, And their flesh from off their bones,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Micah 3:2 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Kings 21:20When Elijah arrived, Ahab said to him, “So you have found me out, my enemy.” He replied, “I have found you out because you have sold yourself to do evil in the sight of the LORD.
- 1 Kings 22:6So the king of Israel assembled the prophets, about four hundred men, and asked them, “Should I go to war against Ramoth-gilead, or should I refrain?” “Go up,” they replied, “and the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
- 2 Chronicles 19:2Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to confront him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, the wrath of the LORD is upon you.
- Psalms 15:4who despises the vile but honors those who fear the LORD, who does not revise a costly oath,
- Psalms 53:4Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon God.
- Psalms 139:21Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD, and detest those who rise against You?
- Proverbs 28:4Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law resist them.
- Isaiah 3:15Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
- Isaiah 5:20Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter.
- Ezekiel 22:27Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives for dishonest gain.
- Ezekiel 34:3You eat the fat, wear the wool, and butcher the fattened sheep, but you do not feed the flock.
- Amos 4:1Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”
- Amos 5:10There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.
- Amos 5:15Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
- Amos 8:4Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
- Zephaniah 3:3Her princes are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, leaving nothing for the morning.
- Zechariah 11:4This is what the LORD my God says: “Pasture the flock marked for slaughter,
- Luke 19:14But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’
- John 7:7The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.
- John 15:18If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first.
- John 15:23Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well.
- John 18:40“Not this man,” they shouted, “but Barabbas!” (Now Barabbas was an insurrectionist.)
- Acts 7:51You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
- Romans 1:32Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them.
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