Proverbs 16:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 11:1 : 1 Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is his delight.
  • Prov 20:10 : 10 Unequal weights and unequal measures, they are all disgusting to the Lord.
  • Prov 20:23 : 23 Unequal weights are disgusting to the Lord, and false scales are not good.
  • Ezek 45:10 : 10 Have true scales and a true ephah and a true bath.
  • Hos 12:7 : 7 So then, come back to your God; keep mercy and right, and be waiting at all times on your God.
  • Amos 8:5 : 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;
  • Mic 6:11 : 11 Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?
  • Lev 19:35-36 : 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 25:13-15 : 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.

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  • Prov 11:1
    85%

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

  • Prov 20:23
    81%

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

  • Prov 20:10-11
    2 verses
    80%

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

    11 Even a child may be judged by his doings, if his work is free from sin and if it is right.

  • Mic 6:10-11
    2 verses
    79%

    10 Am I to let the stores of the evil-doer go out of my memory, and the short measure, which is cursed?

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

  • Lev 19:35-36
    2 verses
    77%

    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;

  • Prov 16:10
    77%

    10 Decision is in the lips of the king: his mouth will not go wrong in judging.

  • Deut 25:13-16
    4 verses
    76%

    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.

  • Prov 16:1-3
    3 verses
    75%

    1 The designs of the heart are man's, but the answer of the tongue comes from the Lord.

    2 All a man's ways are clean to himself; but the Lord puts men's spirits into his scales.

    3 Put your works into the hands of the Lord, and your purposes will be made certain.

  • Ezek 45:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    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.

  • Ps 111:7
    73%

    7 The works of his hands are faith and righteousness; all his laws are unchanging.

  • Job 28:25
    73%

    25 When he made a weight for the wind, measuring out the waters;

  • Prov 21:1-3
    3 verses
    73%

    1 The king's heart in the hands of the Lord is like the water streams, and by him it is turned in any direction at his pleasure.

    2 Every way of a man seems right to himself, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.

    3 To do what is right and true is more pleasing to the Lord than an offering.

  • Prov 16:12
    73%

    12 Evil-doing is disgusting to kings: for the seat of the ruler is based on righteousness.

  • Job 31:6
    72%

    6 (Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:)

  • Prov 16:33
    72%

    33 A thing may be put to the decision of chance, but it comes about through the Lord.

  • Isa 26:7
    71%

    7 The way of the good man is straight; the road of the upright is made smooth by you.

  • Ps 33:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4 For the word of the Lord is upright, and all his works are certain.

    5 His delight is in righteousness and wisdom; the earth is full of the mercy of the Lord.

  • Ps 145:17
    71%

    17 The Lord is upright in all his ways, and kind in all his works.

  • 1 Sam 2:3
    71%

    3 Say no more words of pride; let not uncontrolled sayings come out of your mouths: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, by him acts are judged.

  • Isa 40:12
    70%

    12 In the hollow of whose hand have the waters been measured? and who is able to take the heavens in his stretched-out fingers? who has got together the dust of the earth in a measure? who has taken the weight of the mountains, or put the hills into the scales?

  • Prov 16:8
    70%

    8 Better is a little with righteousness, than great wealth with wrongdoing.

  • Ezra 8:34
    70%

    34 All was handed over by number and by weight: and the weight was put on record at that time.

  • Hos 12:7
    69%

    7 So then, come back to your God; keep mercy and right, and be waiting at all times on your God.

  • Job 6:2
    69%

    2 If only my passion might be measured, and put into the scales against my trouble!

  • Ps 111:3
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    3 His work is full of honour and glory; and his righteousness is unchanging for ever.

  • Ps 62:9
    69%

    9 Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem; if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath.

  • Ps 99:4
    69%

    4 The king's power is used for righteousness; you give true decisions, judging rightly in the land of Jacob.

  • 1 Chr 16:14
    69%

    14 He is the Lord our God: he is judge of all the earth.

  • Isa 46:6
    68%

    6 As for those who take gold out of a bag, and put silver in the scales, they give payment to a gold-worker, to make it into a god; they go down on their faces and give it worship.

  • Prov 17:15
    68%

    15 He who gives a decision for the evil-doer and he who gives a decision against the upright, are equally disgusting to the Lord.

  • Deut 16:20
    68%

    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.

  • Zech 5:8
    68%

    8 And he said, This is Sin; and pushing her down into the ephah, he put the weight of lead on the mouth of it.

  • Ps 9:16
    68%

    16 The Lord has given knowledge of himself through his judging: the evil-doer is taken in the net which his hands had made. (Higgaion. Selah.)

  • Ps 103:6
    68%

    6 The Lord gives decisions in righteousness for all who are in trouble.

  • Dan 5:27
    68%

    27 Tekel; you have been put in the scales and seen to be under weight.

  • Ps 145:14
    68%

    14 The Lord is the support of all who are crushed, and the lifter up of all who are bent down.

  • Ps 129:4
    68%

    4 The Lord is true: the cords of the evil-doers are broken in two.

  • Ps 22:28
    68%

    28 For the kingdom is the Lord's; he is the ruler among the nations.