Micah 3:2

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Micah 3:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Then I said: “Hear now, O leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice?

2 You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones.

3 You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron.”

4 Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them. At that time He will hide His face from them because of the evil they have done.

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1 Kings 21:20

When 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.

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1 Kings 22:7

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1 Kings 22:8

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Amos 5:10

There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.

Amos 5:11

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Amos 5:12

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Amos 5:13

Therefore, the prudent keep silent in such times, for the days are evil.

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John 15:23

Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well.

John 15:24

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Acts 7:51

You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.

Acts 7:52

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Romans 12:9

Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good.

2 Timothy 3:3

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Psalms 139:21

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Psalms 53:4

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Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.

Ezekiel 22:27

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Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,

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Zechariah 11:5

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