Cross references

Micah 6:12

For the wealthy of the city

are full of violence,

and its residents speak lies;

their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.

Micah 6:12 BSB

Micah 6:12 has 22 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 7 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Isaiah 1:23 (5 votes) and Jeremiah 9:8 (5 votes). 21 other verses point back to it. It links with 15 other books, from Leviticus 6 to James 5.

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Which verses does Micah 6:12 point to?

The 20 strongest of 22, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.

  2. Their tongues are deadly arrows; they speak deception. With his mouth a man speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he sets a trap for him.

  3. Hosea 7:135 votes

    Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against Me! Though I would redeem them, they speak lies against Me.

  4. Isaiah 3:84 votes

    For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they spoke and acted against the LORD, defying His glorious presence.

  5. Isaiah 5:74 votes

    For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of His delight. He looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard a cry of distress.

  6. If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people. “They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD. …

  7. Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands. They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.

  8. Her princes are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, leaving nothing for the morning.

  9. “Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”

  10. For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice. No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity. …

  11. For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men. Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich. …

  12. Hosea 7:12 votes

Which verses point to Micah 6:12?

The 10 strongest of 21.