Micah 3:2
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2 you who hate the good and love the evil,
who tear the skin off my people[a]
and the flesh off their bones,(A)
Footnotes
- 3.2 Heb from them
Ezekiel 22:27
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27 Its officials within it are like wolves tearing the prey, shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain.(A)
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Proverbs 28:4
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4 Those who forsake the law praise the wicked,
but those who keep the law struggle against them.(A)
Psalm 53:4
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4 Have they no knowledge, those evildoers,
who eat up my people as they eat bread
and do not call upon God?(A)
Romans 12:9
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Marks of the True Christian
9 Let love be genuine; hate what is evil; hold fast to what is good;
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Isaiah 3:15
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15 What do you mean by crushing my people,
by grinding the face of the poor? says the Lord God of hosts.(A)
Psalm 15:4
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4 in whose eyes the wicked are despised
but who honor those who fear the Lord;
who stand by their oath even to their hurt;(A)
2 Chronicles 19:2
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2 Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord? Because of this, wrath has gone out against you from the Lord.(A)
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1 Kings 22:6-8
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6 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred of them, and said to them, “Shall I go to battle against Ramoth-gilead, or shall I refrain?” They said, “Go up, for the Lord will give it into the hand of the king.”(A) 7 But Jehoshaphat said, “Is there no other prophet of the Lord here of whom we may inquire?”(B) 8 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is still one other by whom we may inquire of the Lord, Micaiah son of Imlah, but I hate him, for he never prophesies anything favorable about me but only disaster.” Jehoshaphat said, “Let the king not say such a thing.”
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1 Kings 21:20
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20 Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, O my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you. Because you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the Lord,(A)
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2 Timothy 3:3
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3 unfeeling, implacable, slanderers, profligates, brutes, haters of good,(A)
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Romans 1:32
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32 They know God’s decree, that those who practice such things deserve to die, yet they not only do them but even applaud others who practice them.(A)
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Acts 7:51-52
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51 “You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you are forever opposing the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors used to do.(A) 52 Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, and now you have become his betrayers and murderers.(B)
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John 18:40
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40 They shouted in reply, “Not this man but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a rebel.(A)
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John 15:23-24
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23 Whoever hates me hates my Father also.(A) 24 If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not have sin. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.(B)
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John 15:18-19
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The World’s Hatred
18 “If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you.(A) 19 If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
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John 7:7
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7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its works are evil.(A)
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Luke 19:14
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14 But the citizens of his country hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’
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Zechariah 11:4-5
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Two Kinds of Shepherds
4 “Thus says the Lord my God: Be a shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter.(A) 5 Those who buy them kill them and go unpunished, and those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the Lord, for I have become rich,’ and their own shepherds have no pity on them.(B)
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Zephaniah 3:3
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3 The officials within it
are roaring lions;
its judges are evening wolves
that leave nothing until the morning.(A)
Amos 8:4-6
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4 Hear this, you who trample on the needy,
and bring to ruin the poor of the land,(A)
5 saying, “When will the new moon be over
so that we may sell grain,
and the Sabbath,
so that we may offer wheat for sale?
We will make the ephah smaller and the shekel heavier
and practice deceit with false balances,(B)
6 buying the poor for silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals
and selling the sweepings of the wheat.”(C)
Amos 5:10-14
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10 They hate the one who reproves in the gate,
and they abhor the one who speaks the truth.(A)
11 Therefore because you trample on the poor
and take from them levies of grain,
you have built houses of hewn stone,
but you shall not live in them;
you have planted pleasant vineyards,
but you shall not drink their wine.(B)
12 For I know how many are your transgressions
and how great are your sins—
you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe
and push aside the needy in the gate.(C)
13 Therefore the prudent will keep silent in such a time,
for it is an evil time.
14 Seek good and not evil,
that you may live,
and so the Lord, the God of hosts, will be with you,
just as you have said.(D)
Ezekiel 34:3
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3 You eat the fat; you clothe yourselves with the wool; you slaughter the fatted calves, but you do not feed the sheep.(A)
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Psalm 139:21-22
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21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord?
And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?(A)
22 I hate them with perfect hatred;
I count them my enemies.
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