Proverbs 20:10

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

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  • Prov 11:1 : 1 Dishonest scales are detestable to the Lord, but a full and accurate weight is His delight.
  • Prov 20:23 : 23 Differing weights are an abomination to the Lord, and deceitful scales are not good.
  • Amos 8:4-7 : 4 Hear this, you who trample on the needy and seek to destroy the poor of the land, 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.' 7 The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob: 'Surely I will never forget all their deeds.'
  • Mic 6:10-11 : 10 Are there still treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and dishonest measures that are detestable? 11 Shall I acquit a person with crooked scales and a bag of deceptive weights?
  • Prov 16:11 : 11 Honest scales and balances belong to the Lord; all the weights in the bag are His making.
  • Lev 19:35 : 35 Do not use dishonest measures in judgment, whether in length, weight, or quantity.
  • Deut 25:13-15 : 13 Do not have two differing weights in your bag, a heavy one and a light one. 14 Do not have two differing measures in your house, a large one and a small one. 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.
  • Deut 7:25-26 : 25 You must burn the carved images of their gods in the fire. Do not covet the silver or gold on them, and do not take it for yourself, or you will be ensnared by it. For it is detestable to the LORD your God. 26 Do not bring any detestable thing into your house, or you will be set apart for destruction just like it. Utterly detest and abhor it, for it is set apart for destruction.
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 But as for the cowardly, the unbelieving, the detestable, murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 20:23-24
    2 verses
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    23Differing weights are an abomination to the Lord, and deceitful scales are not good.

    24A person's steps are directed by the Lord; how then can anyone understand their own way?

  • Prov 11:1
    85%

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

  • Prov 16:10-12
    3 verses
    80%

    10A decision is on the lips of a king; his mouth does not betray justice.

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

    12Kings detest wrongdoing, for a throne is established by righteousness.

  • Deut 25:13-16
    4 verses
    80%

    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.

  • Lev 19:35-36
    2 verses
    78%

    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.

  • Mic 6:10-11
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    78%

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

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

  • Prov 20:11
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    11Even a young person is known by their actions—whether their conduct is pure and upright.

  • Prov 17:15
    74%

    15Acquitting the guilty and condemning the righteous—both are detestable to the Lord.

  • Prov 11:20
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    20Those with twisted hearts are detestable to the Lord, but His delight is in those whose ways are blameless.

  • Ezek 45:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    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 29:27
    72%

    27The righteous detest the unjust, and the wicked detest the upright.

  • Prov 16:2
    72%

    2All a person’s ways seem pure to them, but the Lord weighs the spirit.

  • Prov 6:16
    71%

    16There are six things the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to Him:

  • Prov 20:9
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    9Who can say, 'I have cleansed my heart; I am pure from my sin'?

  • Prov 21:2-3
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    2Every person's way seems right in their own eyes, but the LORD evaluates the hearts.

    3To do righteousness and justice is preferred by the LORD rather than sacrifice.

  • Zech 5:8
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    8He said, 'This is wickedness,' and he pushed her back into the basket and placed the lead cover over its mouth.

  • Hag 2:16
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    16from that time, when one came to a grain heap of twenty measures, only ten were there; when one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, only twenty were there.

  • Prov 15:9
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    9The LORD detests the way of the wicked, but He loves those who pursue righteousness.

  • Zech 8:17
    69%

    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.

  • Isa 5:20
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    20Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness into light and light into darkness, who make bitter sweet and sweet bitter!

  • Deut 18:12
    69%

    12For anyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD. Because of these detestable practices, the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you.

  • Mal 2:17
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    17You have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet you ask, 'How have we wearied Him?' By saying, 'Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of the Lord, and He delights in them,' or 'Where is the God of justice?'

  • Job 28:25
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    25When He gave weight to the wind and measured the waters by measure,

  • Prov 16:5
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    5The Lord detests all who are proud in heart; be sure of this, they will not go unpunished.

  • Job 31:6
    68%

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

  • Prov 15:26
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    26The LORD detests the thoughts of the wicked, but gracious words are pure to Him.

  • 1 Sam 2:3
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    3'Do not keep speaking so arrogantly or let proud words come out of your mouth, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by Him deeds are weighed.'

  • Prov 8:13
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    13The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior, and perverse speech.

  • Lev 18:27
    68%

    27For all these abominations were committed by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land was defiled.

  • Prov 12:22
    68%

    22Lying lips are detestable to the LORD, but those who act faithfully are His delight.

  • Ezek 20:7
    67%

    7And I said to them, 'Each of you, get rid of the detestable things your eyes are set on, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.'

  • Jer 17:10
    67%

    10I, the LORD, search the heart and test the mind, to give each person according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.

  • Isa 10:1
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    1Woe to those who enact unjust decrees and to those who write oppressive laws.

  • Prov 21:27
    67%

    27The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable, even more when it is brought with evil intent.

  • Deut 7:26
    67%

    26Do not bring any detestable thing into your house, or you will be set apart for destruction just like it. Utterly detest and abhor it, for it is set apart for destruction.

  • Ezek 11:21
    67%

    21But as for those whose hearts follow their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their conduct down upon their own heads, declares the Lord God.

  • Prov 21:8
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    8The way of the guilty is crooked, but the conduct of the pure is upright.

  • Deut 17:1
    67%

    1Do not sacrifice to the LORD your God a bull or sheep with a defect or any flaw, for that would be detestable to the LORD your God.

  • Lev 18:30
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    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.

  • 1 Kgs 7:37
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    37This was how he made the ten stands: all of them were cast in the same mold, with the same size and shape.