Micah 3:2
King James Version (KJV)
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 (ASV)
ye who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
World English Bible (WEB)
You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;
Micah 3:2 Cross References
And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD.
Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the LORD shall deliver it into the hand of the king.
And Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD besides, that we might enquire of him?
And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.
The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
