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 Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
• Jer 15:16Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.
• Ps 15:2He who walks blamelessly does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart;
• Zech 4:6Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, “This is Yahweh’s word to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says Yahweh of Armies.
• Isa 50:2Why, when I came, was there no one? when I called, why was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.
• Prov 28:18Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.
• Ps 19:7–11Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s testimony is sure, making wise the simple.
• Prov 10:29The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
• Hos 14:9Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.
• Prov 10:9He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.
• Ps 119:99–103I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.
• Ps 119:92–93Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
• 2 Tim 3:5holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.
• Ps 119:70–71Their heart is as callous as the fat, but I delight in your law.
• Isa 58:1“Cry aloud, don’t spare. Lift up your voice like a trumpet. Declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
• Prov 14:2He who walks in his uprightness fears Yahweh, but he who is perverse in his ways despises him.
• Rom 9:6–13But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel.
• Rom 7:13Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by producing death in me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceedingly sinful.
• Isa 48:1–2“Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah. You swear by Yahweh’s name, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness
• 2 Cor 6:12You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.
• Matt 3:8Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!
• Prov 2:7He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity;
• Num 11:23Yahweh said to Moses, “Has Yahweh’s hand grown short? Now you will see whether my word will happen to you or not.”
• Isa 59:1–2Behold, Yahweh’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save; nor his ear dull, that it can’t hear.
• Mic 3:9Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity.
• Rom 2:28–29For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;
• Ps 119:65Do good to your servant, according to your word, Yahweh.
• Jer 2:4Hear Yahweh’s word, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel!
• John 8:39They answered him, “Our father is Abraham.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.

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