Proverbs 20:10

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

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  • Prov 11:1 : 1 Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is his delight.
  • Prov 20:23 : 23 Unequal weights are disgusting to the Lord, and false scales are not good.
  • Amos 8:4-7 : 4 Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land, 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. 7 The Lord has taken an oath by the pride of Jacob, Truly I will ever keep in mind all their works.
  • Mic 6:10-11 : 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?
  • Prov 16:11 : 11 True measures and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are his work.
  • Lev 19:35 : 35 Do not make false decisions in questions of yard-sticks and weights and measures.
  • 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.
  • Deut 7:25-26 : 25 The images of their gods are to be burned with fire: have no desire for the gold and silver on them, and do not take it for yourselves, for it will be a danger to you: it is a thing disgusting to the Lord your God: 26 And you may not take a disgusting thing into your house, and so become cursed with its curse: but keep yourselves from it, turning from it with fear and hate, for it is a cursed thing.
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 But those who are full of fear and without faith, the unclean and takers of life, those who do the sins of the flesh, and those who make use of evil powers or who give worship to images, and all those who are false, will have their part in the sea of ever-burning fire which is the second death.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 20:23-24
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    23Unequal weights are disgusting to the Lord, and false scales are not good.

    24A man's steps are of the Lord; how then may a man have knowledge of his way?

  • Prov 11:1
    85%

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

  • Prov 16:10-12
    3 verses
    80%

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

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

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

  • Deut 25:13-16
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    80%

    13Do not have in your bag different weights, a great and a small;

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

    15But 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.

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

  • Lev 19:35-36
    2 verses
    78%

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

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

  • Mic 6:10-11
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    78%

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

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

  • Prov 20:11
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    11Even a child may be judged by his doings, if his work is free from sin and if it is right.

  • Prov 17:15
    74%

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

  • Prov 11:20
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    20The uncontrolled are hated by the Lord, but those whose ways are without error are his delight

  • Ezek 45:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

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

    11The 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 29:27
    72%

    27An evil man is disgusting to the upright, and he who is upright is disgusting to evil-doers.

  • Prov 16:2
    72%

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

  • Prov 6:16
    71%

    16Six things are hated by the Lord; seven things are disgusting to him:

  • Prov 20:9
    71%

    9Who is able to say, I have made my heart clean, I am free from my sin?

  • Prov 21:2-3
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    2Every way of a man seems right to himself, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.

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

  • Zech 5:8
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    8And he said, This is Sin; and pushing her down into the ephah, he put the weight of lead on the mouth of it.

  • Hag 2:16
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    16How, when anyone came to a store of twenty measures, there were only ten: when anyone went to the wine-store to get fifty vessels full, there were only twenty.

  • Prov 15:9
    69%

    9The way of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but he who goes after righteousness is dear to him.

  • Zech 8:17
    69%

    17Let 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.

  • Isa 5:20
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    20Cursed are those who give the name of good to evil, and of evil to what is good: who make light dark, and dark light: who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter!

  • Deut 18:12
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    12For all who do such things are disgusting to the Lord; and because of these disgusting things the Lord your God is driving them out before you.

  • Mal 2:17
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    17You have made the Lord tired with your words. And still you say, How have we made him tired? By your saying, Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of the Lord, and he has delight in them; or, Where is God the judge?

  • Job 28:25
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    25When he made a weight for the wind, measuring out the waters;

  • Prov 16:5
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    5Everyone who has pride in his heart is disgusting to the Lord: he will certainly not go free from punishment.

  • Job 31:6
    68%

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

  • Prov 15:26
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    26Evil designs are disgusting to the Lord, but the words of the clean-hearted are pleasing.

  • 1 Sam 2:3
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    3Say 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.

  • Prov 8:13
    68%

    13The fear of the Lord is seen in hating evil: pride, a high opinion of oneself, the evil way, and the false tongue, are unpleasing to me.

  • Lev 18:27
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    27(For all these disgusting things were done by the men of this country who were there before you, and the land has been made unclean by them;)

  • Prov 12:22
    68%

    22False lips are hated by the Lord, but those whose acts are true are his delight.

  • Ezek 20:7
    67%

    7And I said to them, Let every man among you put away the disgusting things to which his eyes are turned, and do not make yourselves unclean with the images of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.

  • Jer 17:10
    67%

    10I the Lord am the searcher of the heart, the tester of the thoughts, so that I may give to every man the reward of his ways, in keeping with the fruit of his doings.

  • Isa 10:1
    67%

    1Cursed are those who make evil decisions, and the writers who make the records of their cruel acts:

  • Prov 21:27
    67%

    27The offering of evil-doers is disgusting: how much more when they give it with an evil purpose!

  • Deut 7:26
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    26And you may not take a disgusting thing into your house, and so become cursed with its curse: but keep yourselves from it, turning from it with fear and hate, for it is a cursed thing.

  • Ezek 11:21
    67%

    21But as for those whose heart goes after their hated and disgusting things, I will send on their heads the punishment of their ways, says the Lord.

  • Prov 21:8
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    8Twisted is the way of him who is full of crime; but as for him whose heart is clean, his work is upright.

  • Deut 17:1
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    1No ox or sheep which has a mark on it or is damaged in any way may be offered to the Lord your God: for that is disgusting to the Lord your God.

  • Lev 18:30
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    30So 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.

  • 1 Kgs 7:37
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    37All the ten bases were made in this way, after the same design, of the same size and form.