Micah 6:11

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Hos 12:7 : 7 But you must return to your God; maintain love and justice and wait for your God continually.
  • Lev 19:36 : 36 Use 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.
  • Prov 16:11 : 11 Honest scales and balances belong to the Lord; all the weights in the bag are His making.

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  • Mic 6:10
    87%

    10Are there still treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and dishonest measures that are detestable?

  • Prov 11:1
    81%

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

  • Mic 6:12
    80%

    12Her rich men are full of violence; her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.

  • Prov 16:11
    79%

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

  • Prov 20:23
    78%

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

  • Job 31:5-6
    2 verses
    78%

    5If I have walked with falsehood or my foot has hurried to deceit,

    6let God weigh me with honest scales, and He will know my integrity.

  • Prov 20:9-10
    2 verses
    78%

    9Who can say, 'I have cleansed my heart; I am pure from my sin'?

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

  • Hos 12:7
    75%

    7But you must return to your God; maintain love and justice and wait for your God continually.

  • Deut 25:13-16
    4 verses
    75%

    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.

  • Amos 8:4-6
    3 verses
    74%

    4Hear this, you who trample on the needy and seek to destroy the poor of the land,

    5saying, '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?

    6Buying the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, even selling the sweepings of the wheat.'

  • Job 6:2
    74%

    2If only my grief could be weighed and my calamity placed together on the scales!

  • Zech 5:8
    74%

    8He said, 'This is wickedness,' and he pushed her back into the basket and placed the lead cover over its mouth.

  • Ps 55:11
    73%

    11Day and night they surround it on its walls, and trouble and wickedness are within it.

  • Ps 58:2
    73%

    2Do you rulers truly speak justice? Do you judge people with fairness?

  • Job 6:30
    73%

    30Is there injustice on my tongue? Can my palate not discern disaster?

  • Ps 26:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10whose hands are full of wicked schemes, and whose right hand is filled with bribes.

    11But as for me, I walk in my integrity; redeem me and be gracious to me.

  • Prov 21:7
    72%

    7The violence of the wicked will sweep them away because they refuse to act justly.

  • Job 13:7
    72%

    7Will you speak unjustly on God's behalf and speak deceitfully for Him?

  • Lev 19:35-36
    2 verses
    72%

    35Do not use dishonest measures in judgment, whether in length, weight, or quantity.

    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.

  • Ezek 45:10
    71%

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

  • Isa 46:6
    71%

    6They pour out gold from their purses and weigh silver on a scale. They hire a craftsman to make it into a god, and they bow down and even worship it.

  • Jer 9:6
    71%

    6Therefore, this is what the Lord of Hosts says: Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do because of the sin of my people?

  • Isa 5:23
    71%

    23who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deny justice to the righteous!

  • Ps 62:9
    71%

    9Trust in Him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts to Him, for God is our refuge. Selah.

  • Jer 5:11
    71%

    11For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have been thoroughly unfaithful to Me, declares the Lord.

  • Mic 7:3
    71%

    3Their hands are skilled at doing evil: the ruler demands gifts, the judge accepts bribes, and the powerful speak out their selfish desires. Together they weave a web of corrupt schemes.

  • Job 36:17
    71%

    17But you are full of the judgment on the wicked; justice and judgment take hold of you.

  • Ps 28:3
    70%

    3Do not drag me away with the wicked, with those who do evil, who speak peace to their neighbors but harbor evil in their hearts.

  • Hos 7:3
    70%

    3They please the king with their evil and the princes with their lies.

  • Jer 12:1
    70%

    1You are righteous, LORD, even when I bring my case to you. Yet I want to discuss your judgments: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are those who betray others at ease?

  • Prov 11:6
    70%

    6The righteousness of the upright delivers them, but the treacherous are trapped by their own desires.

  • Dan 5:27
    70%

    27Tekel means that you have been weighed on the scales and found wanting.

  • Jer 6:29
    70%

    29The bellows blow fiercely to burn away the lead with fire, but the refining goes on in vain; the wicked are not purged out.

  • Lev 6:2-3
    2 verses
    70%

    2Command Aaron and his sons, saying: This is the law of the burnt offering. The burnt offering shall remain on the hearth of the altar all night until morning, and the fire on the altar must be kept burning.

    3The priest shall put on his linen garment and wear linen undergarments on his body. He shall remove the ashes of the burnt offering that the fire has consumed on the altar and place them beside the altar.

  • Jer 5:29
    70%

    29Should I not punish them for these things? declares the Lord. Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?

  • Prov 13:6
    70%

    6Righteousness guards the way of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

  • Hos 6:8
    70%

    8Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with blood.

  • Prov 11:18
    70%

    18The wicked person earns deceptive wages, but the one who sows righteousness receives a sure reward.

  • Ps 94:20
    70%

    20Can a corrupt throne be allied with you—one that brings about trouble under the guise of law?

  • Jer 7:8
    70%

    8But look, you are trusting in deceptive words that are worthless.