Micah 6:8
He has made clear to you, O man, what is good; and what is desired from you by the Lord; only doing what is right, and loving mercy, and walking without pride before your God.
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In Context
9The voice of the Lord is crying out to the town: Give ear, you tribes and the meeting of the town.
Cross References
Genesis 5:22And after the birth of Methuselah, Enoch went on in God's ways for three hundred years, and had sons and daughters:
Leviticus 26:41So that I went against them and sent them away into the land of their haters: if then the pride of their hearts is broken and they take the punishment of their sins,
Deuteronomy 27:10For this cause you are to give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and do his orders and his laws which I give you this day.
1 Samuel 12:23And as for me, never will I go against the orders of the Lord by giving up my prayers for you: but I will go on teaching you the good and right way.
2 Chronicles 30:11However, some of Asher and Manasseh and Zebulun put away their pride and came to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 33:12And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers,
Matthew Henry on Micah 6:7-9
Anxiety Respecting the Divine Favour. ( b. c. 710.) 6 Wherewith shall I come before the Lord , and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? 7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? 8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to… Read the whole commentary →