Deuteronomy 25:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But have a true weight and a true measure: so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

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  • Exod 20:12 : 12 Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
  • Deut 4:40 : 40 Then keep his laws and his orders which I give you today, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, and that your lives may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for ever.
  • Deut 5:16 : 16 Give honour to your father and your mother, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God; so that your life may be long and all may be well for you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
  • Deut 5:33 : 33 Go on walking in the way ordered for you by the Lord your God, so that life may be yours and it may be well for you, and your days may be long in the land of your heritage.
  • Deut 6:18 : 18 And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers,
  • Deut 11:9 : 9 And that your days may be long in the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers and to their seed after them, a land flowing with milk and honey.
  • Deut 17:20 : 20 So that his heart may not be lifted up over his countrymen, and he may not be turned away from the orders, to one side or the other: but that his life and the lives of his children may be long in his kingdom in Israel.
  • Ps 34:12 : 12 What man has a love of life, and a desire that his days may be increased so that he may see good?
  • Eph 6:3 : 3 So that all may be well for you, and your life may be long on the earth.
  • 1 Pet 3:10 : 10 For it is said, Let the man who has a love of life, desiring to see good days, keep his tongue from evil and his lips from words of deceit:

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  • Deut 25:13-14
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    13 Do not have in your bag different weights, a great and a small;

    14 Or in your house different measures, a great and a small.

  • Lev 19:35-36
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    82%

    35 Do not make false decisions in questions of yard-sticks and weights and measures.

    36 Have true scales, true weights and measures for all things: I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt;

  • Deut 16:18-20
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    79%

    18 You are to make judges and overseers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, for every tribe: and they are to be upright men, judging the people in righteousness.

    19 You are not to be moved in your judging by a man's position, you are not to take rewards; for rewards make the eyes of the wise man blind, and the decisions of the upright false.

    20 Let righteousness be your guide, so that you may have life, and take for your heritage the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Deut 25:16
    78%

    16 For all who do such things, and all whose ways are not upright, are disgusting to the Lord your God.

  • Ezek 45:10-11
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    77%

    10 Have true scales and a true ephah and a true bath.

    11 The ephah and the bath are to be of the same measure, so that the bath is equal to a tenth of a homer, and the ephah to a tenth of a homer: the unit of measure is to be a homer.

  • Prov 11:1
    76%

    1 Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is his delight.

  • Prov 16:11
    76%

    11 True measures and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are his work.

  • Prov 20:10
    75%

    10 Unequal weights and unequal measures, they are all disgusting to the Lord.

  • Prov 20:23
    75%

    23 Unequal weights are disgusting to the Lord, and false scales are not good.

  • Deut 18:13
    74%

    13 You are to be upright in heart before the Lord your God.

  • Deut 6:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17 Keep with care the orders of the Lord your God, and his rules and his laws which he has given you;

    18 And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers,

  • Deut 19:14
    72%

    14 Your neighbour's landmark, which was put in its place by the men of old times, is not to be moved or taken away in the land of your heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Deut 11:9
    72%

    9 And that your days may be long in the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers and to their seed after them, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Lev 25:14-19
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    71%

    14 And in the business of trading goods for money, do no wrong to one another.

    15 Let your exchange of goods with your neighbours have relation to the number of years after the year of Jubilee, and the number of times the earth has given her produce.

    16 If the number of years is great, the price will be increased, and if the number of years is small, the price will be less, for it is the produce of a certain number of years which the man is giving you.

    17 And do no wrong, one to another, but let the fear of your God be before you; for I am the Lord your God.

    18 So keep my rules and my decisions and do them, and you will be safe in your land.

    19 And the land will give her fruit, and you will have food in full measure and be safe in the land.

  • Deut 5:33
    71%

    33 Go on walking in the way ordered for you by the Lord your God, so that life may be yours and it may be well for you, and your days may be long in the land of your heritage.

  • Deut 12:25
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    25 Do not take it for food; so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, while you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

  • Lev 19:15
    71%

    15 Do no wrong in your judging: do not give thought to the position of the poor, or honour to the position of the great; but be a judge to your neighbour in righteousness.

  • Deut 30:20
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    20 In loving the Lord your God, hearing his voice and being true to him: for he is your life and by him will your days be long: so that you may go on living in the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

  • Deut 12:1
    71%

    1 These are the laws and the decisions which you are to keep with care in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to be your heritage all the days of your life on earth.

  • Deut 4:40
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    40 Then keep his laws and his orders which I give you today, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, and that your lives may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for ever.

  • Deut 30:16
    70%

    16 In giving you orders today to have love for the Lord your God, to go in his ways and keep his laws and his orders and his decisions, so that you may have life and be increased, and that the blessing of the Lord your God may be with you in the land where you are going, the land of your heritage.

  • Deut 11:21
    70%

    21 So that your days, and the days of your children, may be long in the land which the Lord by his oath to your fathers said he would give them, like the days of the eternal heavens.

  • Deut 15:4-5
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    4 But there will be no poor among you; for the Lord will certainly give you his blessing in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage;

    5 If only you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and take care to keep all these orders which I give you today.

  • Mic 6:11
    70%

    11 Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?

  • Lev 27:25
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    25 And let all your values be based on the shekel of the holy place, that is, twenty gerahs to the shekel.

  • Deut 14:24-25
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    70%

    24 And if the way is so long that you are not able to take these things to the place marked out by the Lord your God for his name, when he has given you his blessing, because it is far away from you;

    25 Then let these things be exchanged for money, and, taking the money in your hand, go to the place marked out by the Lord your God for himself;

  • Deut 4:2
    70%

    2 Make no addition to the orders which I give you, and take nothing from them, but keep the orders of the Lord your God which I give you.

  • Deut 5:16
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    16 Give honour to your father and your mother, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God; so that your life may be long and all may be well for you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Deut 15:10
    69%

    10 But it is right for you to give to him, without grief of heart: for because of this, the blessing of the Lord your God will be on all your work and on everything to which you put your hand.

  • Deut 13:18
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    18 So long as you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and keep all his orders which I give you today, and do what is right in the eyes of the Lord your God.

  • Deut 28:8
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    8 The Lord will send his blessing on your store-houses and on everything to which you put your hand: his blessing will be on you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Deut 8:10
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    10 And you will have food enough and be full, praising the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.

  • Exod 20:12
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    12 Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Ezek 4:10
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    10 And you are to take your food by weight, twenty shekels a day: you are to take it at regular times.

  • Lev 26:5
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    5 And the crushing of the grain will overtake the cutting of the grapes, and the cutting of the grapes will overtake the planting of the seed, and there will be bread in full measure, and you will be living in your land safely.

  • Deut 32:47
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    47 And this is no small thing for you, but it is your life, and through this you may make your days long in the land which you are going over Jordan to take for your heritage.

  • Deut 14:22
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    22 Put on one side a tenth of all the increase of your seed, produced year by year.