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Micah 6:8

8He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

NIV — New International Version

In other translations

ESV
8He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
NLT
8No, O people, the LORD has told you what is good, and this is what he requires of you: to do what is right, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
CSB
8Mankind, he has told each of you what is good and what it is the LORD requires of you: to act justly, to love faithfulness, and to walk humbly with your God.
KJV
8He 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 walk humbly with thy God?

The surrounding passage

Micah 6:6–10, King James Version

6Wherewith 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?

7Will 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?

8He 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 walk humbly with thy God?

9The LORD's voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.

10Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?

Context

Micah 6 is written as a court case in which the LORD brings a complaint against his people, recalling how he rescued them from Egypt (6:1–5). The people ask what offering would satisfy him, escalating from burnt offerings to thousands of rams and even a firstborn child (6:6–7). This verse is the answer: God has already made plain what he wants. Micah prophesied in Judah in the 8th century BC, around the time of Isaiah.

About the book of Micah

Justice, mercy, and a ruler from Bethlehem.

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