Leviticus 19:35

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Do not use dishonest measures in judgment, whether in length, weight, or quantity.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 25:13 : 13 Do not have two differing weights in your bag, a heavy one and a light one.
  • Deut 25:15 : 15 You must have accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
  • Prov 11:1 : 1 Dishonest scales are detestable to the Lord, but a full and accurate weight is His delight.
  • Prov 16:11 : 11 Honest scales and balances belong to the Lord; all the weights in the bag are His making.
  • Prov 20:10 : 10 Differing weights and differing measures—both are detestable to the Lord.
  • Ezek 22:12-13 : 12 In you, they accept bribes to shed blood; they take interest and increase unlawfully. You have gained profit in extorting your neighbors, and you have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign LORD. 13 See, I will strike my hands together in anger at the dishonest gain you have made and the bloodshed that has been done in your midst.
  • Amos 8:5-6 : 5 saying, 'When will the new moon be over, so we may sell grain, and the Sabbath end, so we may market wheat, making the ephah small and the shekel large, and falsifying the scales with deceit? 6 Buying the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, even selling the sweepings of the wheat.'
  • Mic 6:1 : 1 Listen now to what the Lord says: "Arise, present your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice."
  • Matt 7:2 : 2 For with the standard you use to judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
  • Lev 19:15 : 15 Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 19:36-37
    2 verses
    85%

    36Use honest scales, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

    37Keep all my decrees and all my laws and follow them. I am the LORD.

  • Lev 19:9-16
    8 verses
    84%

    9When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.

    10Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.

    11Do not steal. Do not deceive or lie to one another.

    12Do not swear falsely by my name and so profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.

    13Do not oppress or rob your neighbor. Do not withhold the wages of a hired worker overnight.

    14Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in front of the blind, but fear your God. I am the LORD.

    15Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly.

    16Do not go about spreading slander among your people. Do not do anything that endangers your neighbor’s life. I am the LORD.

  • Deut 25:13-16
    4 verses
    82%

    13Do not have two differing weights in your bag, a heavy one and a light one.

    14Do not have two differing measures in your house, a large one and a small one.

    15You must have accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

    16For anyone who does these things, anyone who deals dishonestly, is detestable to the LORD your God.

  • Ezek 45:10-11
    2 verses
    78%

    10You must have honest scales, an honest ephah, and an honest bath.

    11The measurements for the ephah and the bath shall be the same: both will be one-tenth of a homer. The homer will be the standard measure.

  • Prov 20:10
    78%

    10Differing weights and differing measures—both are detestable to the Lord.

  • Lev 25:17-18
    2 verses
    77%

    17Do not take advantage of one another, but fear your God; I am the LORD your God.

    18You are to follow my statutes and observe my ordinances and carry them out, so that you may live securely in the land.

  • Deut 16:18-20
    3 verses
    76%

    18Appoint judges and officials for each of your tribes in every town the Lord your God is giving you, and they shall judge the people fairly.

    19Do not pervert justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.

    20Follow justice and justice alone, so that you may live and possess the land the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Prov 20:23
    76%

    23Differing weights are an abomination to the Lord, and deceitful scales are not good.

  • Exod 23:6-7
    2 verses
    75%

    6Do not deny justice to your poor among you in their lawsuit.

    7Stay far from a false accusation; do not kill the innocent and the righteous, for I will not justify the wicked.

  • Prov 11:1
    75%

    1Dishonest scales are detestable to the Lord, but a full and accurate weight is His delight.

  • Lev 25:14
    74%

    14If you sell land to your neighbor or buy land from your neighbor, do not take advantage of one another.

  • Deut 19:14
    74%

    14Do not move your neighbor's boundary marker, established by the ancestors, in the inheritance you will receive in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

  • Deut 24:17
    73%

    17Do not pervert justice for the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow's garment as security for a pledge.

  • Deut 1:17
    73%

    17Do not show partiality in judgment; hear both small and great alike. Do not be afraid of anyone, for judgment belongs to God. Bring any case that is too difficult for you to me, and I will hear it.

  • Matt 7:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1Do not judge, so that you will not be judged.

    2For with the standard you use to judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

  • Prov 16:11
    73%

    11Honest scales and balances belong to the Lord; all the weights in the bag are His making.

  • Lev 18:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3You must not behave like the people of Egypt, where you used to live, or like the people of Canaan, where I am bringing you. You must not follow their practices.

    4You must obey my laws and carefully keep my decrees. Live by them. I am the LORD your God.

  • Lev 19:18-19
    2 verses
    72%

    18Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.

    19Keep my decrees. Do not mate different kinds of animals. Do not plant your field with different kinds of seed. Do not wear clothing woven from two kinds of material.

  • Zech 8:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16These are the things you must do: Speak the truth to one another, render true and just judgments in your gates,

    17Do not plot evil in your hearts against your neighbor, and do not love false oaths, for I hate all these things, declares the LORD.

  • Exod 23:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1Do not spread a false report, and do not join hands with a wicked person to be a malicious witness.

    2Do not follow the majority to do evil, and do not testify in a dispute to turn aside after the majority to pervert justice.

  • Lev 19:33-34
    2 verses
    72%

    33When a stranger resides with you in your land, do not mistreat them.

    34Treat the foreigner residing among you as your native-born and love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

  • Mic 6:11
    72%

    11Shall I acquit a person with crooked scales and a bag of deceptive weights?

  • Jer 7:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly execute justice between a person and their neighbor,

    6if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, or follow other gods, bringing harm upon yourselves,

  • Lev 18:26
    71%

    26But you are to keep my statutes and my judgments. Do not commit any of these abominations, whether you are a native-born or a foreigner residing among you.

  • 2 Chr 19:6
    71%

    6He said to the judges, 'Consider carefully what you do, because you are not judging for mere mortals, but for the LORD, who is with you whenever you give a judgment.'

  • Deut 4:2
    70%

    2Do not add to the command that I am giving you, and do not take away from it, so that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I am commanding you.

  • Lev 18:30
    70%

    30So keep my charge not to practice any of the abominable customs that were done before you, so you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD your God.