Leviticus 19:35

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 25:13 : 13 Do not have in your bag different weights, a great and a small;
  • Deut 25:15 : 15 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.
  • Prov 11:1 : 1 Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is his delight.
  • Prov 16:11 : 11 True measures and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are his work.
  • Prov 20:10 : 10 Unequal weights and unequal measures, they are all disgusting to the Lord.
  • Ezek 22:12-13 : 12 In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord. 13 See, then, I have made my hands come together in wrath against your taking of goods by force and against the blood which has been flowing in you.
  • Amos 8:5-6 : 5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, so that we may do trade in grain? and the Sabbath, so that we may put out in the market the produce of our fields? making the measure small and the price great, and trading falsely with scales of deceit; 6 Getting the poor for silver, and him who is in need for the price of two shoes, and taking a price for the waste parts of the grain.
  • Mic 6:1 : 1 Give ear now to the words of the Lord: Up! put forward your cause before the mountains, let your voice be sounding among the hills.
  • Matt 7:2 : 2 For as you have been judging, so you will be judged, and with your measure will it be measured to you.
  • Lev 19:15 : 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 19:36-37
    2 verses
    85%

    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;

    37 You are to keep all my rules and my decisions and do them: I am the Lord.

  • Lev 19:9-16
    8 verses
    84%

    9 And when you get in the grain from your land, do not let all the grain be cut from the edges of the field, or take up what has been dropped on the earth after the getting in of the grain.

    10 And do not take all the grapes from your vine-garden, or the fruit dropped on the earth; let the poor man, and the man from another country, have these: I am the Lord your God.

    11 Do not take anyone's property or be false in act or word to another.

    12 And do not take an oath in my name falsely, putting shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord.

    13 Do not be cruel to your neighbour or take what is his; do not keep back a servant's payment from him all night till the morning.

    14 Do not put a curse on those who have no hearing, or put a cause of falling in the way of the blind, but keep the fear of your God before you: I am the Lord.

    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.

    16 Do not go about saying untrue things among your people, or take away the life of your neighbour by false witness: I am the Lord.

  • Deut 25:13-16
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    82%

    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.

    15 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.

    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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    78%

    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 20:10
    78%

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

  • Lev 25:17-18
    2 verses
    77%

    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.

  • Deut 16:18-20
    3 verses
    76%

    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.

  • Prov 20:23
    76%

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

  • Exod 23:6-7
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    75%

    6 Let no wrong decisions be given in the poor man's cause.

    7 Keep yourselves far from any false business; never let the upright or him who has done no wrong be put to death: for I will make the evil-doer responsible for his sin.

  • Prov 11:1
    75%

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

  • Lev 25:14
    74%

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

  • Deut 19:14
    74%

    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 24:17
    73%

    17 Be upright in judging the cause of the man from a strange country and of him who has no father; do not take a widow's clothing on account of a debt:

  • Deut 1:17
    73%

    17 In judging, do not let a man's position have any weight with you; give hearing equally to small and great; have no fear of any man, for it is God who is judge: and any cause in which you are not able to give a decision, you are to put before me and I will give it a hearing.

  • Matt 7:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1 Be not judges of others, and you will not be judged.

    2 For as you have been judging, so you will be judged, and with your measure will it be measured to you.

  • Prov 16:11
    73%

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

  • Lev 18:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3 You may not do those things which were done in the land of Egypt where you were living; and you may not do those things which are done in the land of Canaan where I am taking you, or be guided in your behaviour by their rules.

    4 But you are to be guided by my decisions and keep my rules, and be guided by them: I am the Lord your God.

  • Lev 19:18-19
    2 verses
    72%

    18 Do not make attempts to get equal with one who has done you wrong, or keep hard feelings against the children of your people, but have love for your neighbour as for yourself: I am the Lord.

    19 Keep my laws. Do not let your cattle have offspring by those of a different sort; do not put mixed seed into your field; do not put on a robe made of two sorts of cloth.

  • Zech 8:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16 These are the things which you are to do: Let every man say what is true to his neighbour; and let your judging give peace in your towns.

    17 Let no one have any evil thought in his heart against his neighbour; and have no love for false oaths: for all these things are hated by me, says the Lord.

  • Exod 23:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1 Do not let a false statement go further; do not make an agreement with evil-doers to be a false witness.

    2 Do not be moved to do wrong by the general opinion, or give the support of your words to a wrong decision:

  • Lev 19:33-34
    2 verses
    72%

    33 And if a man from another country is living in your land with you, do not make life hard for him;

    34 Let him be to you as one of your countrymen and have love for him as for yourself; for you were living in a strange land, in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

  • Mic 6:11
    72%

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

  • Jer 7:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5 For if your ways and your doings are truly changed for the better; if you truly give right decisions between a man and his neighbour;

    6 If you are not cruel to the man from a strange country, and to the child without a father, and to the widow, and do not put the upright to death in this place, or go after other gods, causing damage to yourselves:

  • Lev 18:26
    71%

    26 So then keep my rules and my decisions, and do not do any of these disgusting things, those of you who are Israelites by birth, or any others who are living with you:

  • 2 Chr 19:6
    71%

    6 And said to the judges, Take care what you do, for you are judging not for man but for the Lord, and he is with you in the decisions you give.

  • 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.

  • Lev 18:30
    70%

    30 So then, keep my orders, so that you may not do any of these disgusting things which were done before you, or make yourselves unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.