Micah 2:7

Micah challenges their objection: is the LORD's Spirit really impatient, or do His words not benefit the upright? It reaffirms that God's word blesses the obedient.

Cross-references · 29

• Ps 84:11For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.
• Jer 15:16Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heart’s delight. For I bear Your name, O LORD God of Hosts.
• Ps 15:2He who walks with integrity and practices righteousness, who speaks the truth from his heart,
• Zech 4:6So he said to me, “This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the LORD of Hosts.
• Isa 50:2Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.
• Prov 28:18He who walks with integrity will be kept safe, but whoever is perverse in his ways will suddenly fall.
• Ps 19:7–11The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple.
• Prov 10:29The way of the LORD is a refuge to the upright, but destruction awaits those who do evil.
• Hos 14:9Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right, and the righteous walk in them but the rebellious stumble in them.
• Prov 10:9He who walks in integrity walks securely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.
• Ps 119:99–103I have more insight than all my teachers, for Your testimonies are my meditation.
• Ps 119:92–93If Your law had not been my delight, then I would have perished in my affliction.
• 2 Tim 3:5having a form of godliness but denying its power. Turn away from such as these!
• Ps 119:70–71Their hearts are hard and callous, but I delight in Your law.
• Isa 58:1“Cry aloud, do not hold back! Raise your voice like a ram’s horn. Declare to My people their transgression and to the house of Jacob their sins.
• Prov 14:2He who walks in uprightness fears the LORD, but the one who is devious in his ways despises Him.
• Rom 9:6–13It is not as though God’s word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.
• Rom 7:13Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
• Isa 48:1–2“Listen to this, O house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, who have descended from the line of Judah, who swear by the name of the LORD, who invoke the God of Israel—but not in truth or righteousness—
• 2 Cor 6:12It is not our affection, but yours, that is restrained.
• Matt 3:8Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance.
• Prov 2:7He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk with integrity,
• Num 11:23The LORD answered Moses, “Is the LORD’s arm too short? Now you will see whether or not My word will come to pass.”
• Isa 59:1–2Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor His ear too dull to hear.
• Mic 3:9Now hear this, O leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who despise justice and pervert all that is right,
• Rom 2:28–29A man is not a Jew because he is one outwardly, nor is circumcision only outward and physical.
• Ps 119:65You are good to Your servant, O LORD, according to Your word.
• Jer 2:4Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all you families of the house of Israel.
• John 8:39“Abraham is our father,” they replied. “If you were children of Abraham,” said Jesus, “you would do the works of Abraham.

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