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Mic. 3:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

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hate.

1 Kings 21:20• ²⁰And 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 Jehovah. (1 Kings 21:20)

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1 Kings 22:6‑8• ⁶{i}And the king of Israel assembled the prophets, about four hundred men, and said to them, Shall I go against Ramoth-Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up, and the Lord will give it into the king's hand.{/i}
⁷{i}But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of Jehovah besides, that we might inquire of him?{/i}
⁸{i}And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Jehovah; but I hate him, for he prophesies no good concerning me, but evil: it is Micah the son of Imlah. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.{/i} (1 Kings 22:6‑8)

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Amos 5:10‑14• ¹⁰They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
¹¹Forasmuch 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.
¹²For 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.
¹³Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
¹⁴Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so Jehovah, the God of hosts, shall be with you as ye have spoken. (Amos 5:10‑14)

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Luke 19:14• ¹⁴{i}But{/i} his citizens hated him and sent a message after him, saying, We will not that this [man] should reign over us. (Luke 19:14)

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John 7:7• ⁷The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil. (John 7:7)

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John 15:18‑19,23‑24• ¹⁸If the world hateth you, know that me it hath hated before you.
¹⁹If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, on this account doth the world hate you.
²³He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
²⁴If I did not among them the works which no other did, they had not had sin; but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. (John 15:18‑19,23‑24)

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Acts 7:51‑52• ⁵¹Stiffnecked and uncircumcised in hearts and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers so ye.
⁵²Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? And they slew those that announced beforehand of the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now ye became betrayers and murderers, (Acts 7:51‑52)

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Rom. 12:9• ⁹Let love [be] unfeigned, abhorring evil, cleaving to good; (Rom. 12:9)

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2 Tim. 3:3• ³without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, uncontrolled, fierce, haters of good, (2 Tim. 3:3)

love.

2 Chron. 19:2• ²{i}And Jehu the son of Hanani, the seer, went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate Jehovah? Therefore is wrath upon thee from Jehovah.{/i} (2 Chron. 19:2)

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Psa. 15:4• ⁴Despised in his eyes [is] the contemned [one],{HR}And the fearers of Jehovah he honoureth;{HR}That hath sworn to the injury of [himself] and hath not changed. (Psa. 15:4)

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Psa. 139:21‑22• ²¹Do not I hate those that hate thee, Jehovah?{HR}And those that rise against thee, do not I loathe?
²²(With) perfect hatred I hate them;{HR}For enemies they are to me. (Psa. 139:21‑22)

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Prov. 28:4• ⁴{i}They that forsake the law praise the wicked;{HR}But such as keep the law contend with them.{/i} (Prov. 28:4)

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John 18:40• ⁴⁰T h ey all cried then again, saying, Not this [man] but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber. (John 18:40)

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Rom. 1:32• ³²which, knowing right well the righteous award of God that they who do such things are worthy of death, not only practice them but also have a fellow-pleasure in those that do [them]. (Rom. 1:32)

pluck.

Psa. 53:4• ⁴Have not the workers of iniquity known,{HR}Eating my people [as] they have eaten bread?{HR}They called not upon God. (Psa. 53:4)

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Isa. 3:15• ¹⁵What mean ye [that] ye crush my people and grind the faces of the afflicted? saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts. (Isa. 3:15)

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Ezek. 22:27• ²⁷Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. (Ezek. 22:27)

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Ezek. 34:3• ³Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock. (Ezek. 34:3)

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Amos 8:4‑6• ⁴{i}Hear this, ye that pant after the needy, even to cause to fail the poor of the land,{/i}
⁵{i}saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat? making the ephah small and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances for deceit:{/i}
⁶{i}that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; and that we may sell the refuse of the wheat.{/i} (Amos 8:4‑6)

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Zeph. 3:3• ³Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow. (Zeph. 3:3)

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Zech. 11:4‑5• ⁴Thus saith Jehovah my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter,
⁵whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be Jehovah; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not. (Zech. 11:4‑5)

J. N. Darby Translation

Ye who hate the good, and love evil; who pluck off their skin from them, and their flesh from off their bones;

W. Kelly Translation

Ye who hate the good, and love evil; who pluck off their skin from them, and their flesh from off their bones;

WK Verse Note

(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)