Bible Cross References
the rich
Micah 2:1
They meditated troubles, and wrought wickedness on their beds, and they put it in execution with the daylight; for they have not lifted up their hands to God.
Micah 2:2
And they desired fields, and plundered orphans, and oppressed families, and spoiled a man and his house, even a man and his inheritance.
Micah 3:1-3
1
And He shall say, Hear now these words, you heads of the house of Jacob, and you remnant of the house of Israel; is it not for you to know judgment?
2
Who hate good, and seek evil; who tear their skins off them, and their flesh off their bones:
3
even as they devoured the flesh of My people, and stripped their skins off them, and broke their bones, and divided [them] as flesh for the caldron, and as meat for the pot,
Micah 3:9-11
9
Hear now these words, you chiefs of the house of Jacob, and the remnant of the house of Israel, who hate judgment, and pervert all righteousness;
10
who build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
11
Their heads have judged for gifts, and their priests have answered for hire, and her prophets have divined for silver: and yet they have rested on the Lord, saying, Is not the Lord among us? No evil shall come upon us.
Micah 7:2-6
2
For the godly has perished from the earth; and there is none upright among men: they all quarrel even to blood: they grievously afflict everyone his neighbor.
3
They prepare their hands for mischief, the prince asks a [reward], and the judge speaks flattering words; it is the desire of their soul;
4
therefore I will take away their goods as a devouring moth, and as one who acts by a [rigid] rule in a day of visitation. Woe, woe, your times of vengeance have come; now shall be their lamentations.
5
Trust not in friends, and confide not in guides: beware of your wife, so as not to commit anything to her.
6
For the son dishonors his father, the daughter will rise up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law: those in his house [shall be] all a man's enemies.
Isaiah 1:23
Your princes are rebellious, companions of thieves, loving bribes, seeking after rewards; not pleading for orphans, and not heeding the cause of widows.
Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah [His] beloved plant; I expected [it] to bring forth judgment, and it brought forth iniquity; and not righteousness, but a cry.
Jeremiah 5:5
I will go to the rich men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of the Lord, and the judgment of God. But, behold, with one consent they have broken the yoke, they have burst the bonds.
Jeremiah 5:6
Therefore has a lion out of the forest smitten them, and a wolf has destroyed them, even to [their] houses, and a leopard has watched against their cities. All that go forth from them shall be hunted, for they have multiplied their ungodliness, they have strengthened themselves in their backslidings.
Jeremiah 5:26-29
26
For among My people were found ungodly men; and they have set snares to destroy men, and have caught [them].
27
As a snare which has been set is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore have they grown great, and become rich.
28
They have transgressed [the rule of] judgment; they have not judged the cause of the orphan, nor have they judged the cause of the widow.
29
Shall I not punish for these things? Says the Lord: and shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Jeremiah 6:6
For thus says the Lord, Cut down her trees, array a numerous force against Jerusalem. O false city, she is full of oppression.
Jeremiah 6:7
As a cistern cools water, so her wickedness cools her, ungodliness and misery shall be heard in her, [as] continually before her.
Ezekiel 22:6-13
6
Behold, the princes of the house of Israel have conspired in you each one with his kindred, that they might shed blood.
7
In you they have reviled father and mother; and in you they have behaved unjustly toward the stranger; they have oppressed the orphan and widow.
8
And they have set at nought My holy things, and in you they have profaned My Sabbaths.
9
[There are] robbers in you, to shed blood in you; and in you they have eaten upon the mountains; they have wrought ungodliness in the midst of you.
10
In you they have uncovered the father's shame; and in you they have humbled her that was set apart for uncleanness.
11
They have dealt unlawfully each one with his neighbor's wife; and each one in ungodliness has defiled his daughter-in-law: and in you they have humbled each one his sister, the daughter of his father.
12
In you they have received gifts to shed blood; they have received in you interest and usurious increase; and by oppression you have brought your wickedness to the full, and have forgotten Me, says the Lord.
13
And if I shall smite My hand at [your iniquities] which you have accomplished, which you have wrought, and at your blood that has been shed in the midst of you,
Ezekiel 22:25-29
25
whose princes in the midst of her are as roaring lions seizing prey, devouring souls by oppression, and taking bribes; and your widows are multiplied in the midst of you.
26
Her priests also have set at nought My law, and profaned My holy things: they have not distinguished between the holy and profane, nor have they distinguished between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, and I was profaned in the midst of them.
27
Her princes in the midst of her are as wolves ravening to shed blood, that they may get dishonest gain.
28
And her prophets that daub them shall fall, that see vanities, that prophesy falsehoods, saying, Thus says the Lord, when the Lord has not spoken.
29
That sorely oppress the people of the land with injustice, and commit robbery; oppressing the poor and needy, and not dealing justly with the stranger.
Hosea 4:1
Hear the word of the Lord, you children of Israel: for the Lord [has] a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
Hosea 4:2
Cursing, and lying, and murder, and theft, and adultery bound in the land, and they mingle blood with blood.
Amos 5:11
Therefore because they have smitten the poor with their fists, and you have received of them choice gifts, you have built polished houses, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted desirable vineyards, but you shall not drink the wine of them.
Amos 5:12
For I know your many transgressions, and your sins are great, trampling on the just, taking bribes, and turning aside [the judgment of] the poor in the gates.
Amos 6:1-3
1
Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and that trust in the mountain of Samaria; they have gathered [the harvest of] the heads of the nations, and they have gone in themselves.
2
O house of Israel, pass by all of you, and see; and pass by from there to Hamath; and from there descend to Gath of the Philistines, the chief of all these kingdoms, see if their coasts are greater than your coasts.
3
You who are approaching the evil day, who are drawing near and adopting false sabbaths;
Zephaniah 3:3
Her princes within her were as roaring lions, her judges as the wolves of Arabia; they remained not till the morning.
spoken
Isaiah 59:3-15
3
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with sins; your lips also have spoken iniquity, and your tongue meditates unrighteousness.
4
None speaks justly, neither is there true judgment; they trust in vanities, and speak empty [words]; for they conceive trouble, and bring forth iniquity.
5
They have hatched vipers' eggs, and weave a spider's web; and he that is going to eat of their eggs, having crushed an addled egg, has found also in it a basilisk.
6
Their web shall not become a garment, nor shall they at all clothe themselves with their works; for their works are works of iniquity.
7
And their feet run to wickedness, [and are] swift to shed blood; their thoughts also are thoughts of murder; destruction and misery are in their ways;
8
and the way of peace they know not, neither is there judgment in their ways; for their paths by which they go are crooked, and they know not peace.
9
Therefore has judgment departed from them, and righteousness shall not overtake them; while they waited for light, darkness came upon them; while they waited for brightness, they walked in perplexity.
10
They shall feel for the wall as blind [men], and shall feel [for it] as if they had no eyes; and they shall feel at noonday as at midnight; they shall groan as dying men.
11
They shall proceed together as a bear and as a dove; we have waited for judgment, and there is no salvation, it is gone far from us.
12
For our iniquity is great before You, and our sins have risen up against us; for our iniquities are in us, and we know our unrighteous deeds.
13
We have sinned, and dealt falsely, and revolted from our God; we have spoken unrighteous words, and have been disobedient; we have conceived and uttered from our heart unrighteous words.
14
And we have turned back judgment, and righteousness has departed afar off; for truth is consumed in their ways, and they could not pass by a straight [path].
15
And truth has been taken away, and they have turned aside [their] mind from understanding. And the Lord saw it, and it pleased Him not that there was no judgment.
Jeremiah 9:2-6
2
Who would give me a most distant lodge in the wilderness, that I might leave my people, and depart from them? For they all commit adultery, an assembly of treacherous men.
3
And they have bent their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not faithfulness has prevailed upon the earth; for they have gone on from evil to evil, and have not known Me, says the Lord.
4
Beware, each of his neighbor, and trust not in your brother, for everyone will surely supplant, and every friend will walk craftily.
5
Everyone will mock his friend; they will not speak truth; their tongue has learned to speak falsehoods; they have committed iniquity, they ceased not, so as to return.
6
[There is] usury upon usury, and deceit upon deceit: they would not know Me, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 9:8-6
Hosea 7:1
When I have healed Israel, then shall the iniquity of Ephraim be revealed, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they have wrought falsehood. And a thief shall come in to him, [even] a robber spoiling in his way;
Hosea 7:13
Woe to them! For they have started aside from Me: they are cowards; for they have sinned against Me: yet I redeemed them, but they spoke falsehoods against Me.
Romans 3:13
"Their throat is an opened grave; with their tongues they deceived"; " [the] poison of asps is under their lips";