Proverbs 20:10

King James Version 1611 (Original)

Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.

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  • Prov 11:1 : 1 A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
  • Prov 20:23 : 23 Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
  • Amos 8:4-7 : 4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, 5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit? 6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat? 7 The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
  • Mic 6:10-11 : 10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable? 11 Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
  • Prov 16:11 : 11 A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work.
  • Lev 19:35 : 35 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
  • Deut 25:13-15 : 13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. 14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small. 15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
  • Deut 7:25-26 : 25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God. 26 Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 20:23-24
    2 verses
    90%

    23Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.

    24Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?

  • Prov 11:1
    85%

    1A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.

  • Prov 16:10-12
    3 verses
    80%

    10A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment.

    11A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work.

    12It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.

  • Deut 25:13-16
    4 verses
    80%

    13Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.

    14Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.

    15But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

    16For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

  • Lev 19:35-36
    2 verses
    78%

    35Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.

    36Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.

  • Mic 6:10-11
    2 verses
    78%

    10Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?

    11Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

  • Prov 20:11
    75%

    11Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

  • Prov 17:15
    74%

    15He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.

  • Prov 11:20
    74%

    20They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.

  • Ezek 45:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.

    11The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.

  • Prov 29:27
    72%

    27An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.

  • Prov 16:2
    72%

    2All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.

  • Prov 6:16
    71%

    16These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

  • Prov 20:9
    71%

    9Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

  • Prov 21:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.

    3To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

  • Zech 5:8
    70%

    8And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.

  • Hag 2:16
    70%

    16Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.

  • Prov 15:9
    69%

    9The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.

  • Zech 8:17
    69%

    17And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.

  • Isa 5:20
    69%

    20Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

  • Deut 18:12
    69%

    12For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

  • Mal 2:17
    68%

    17Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?

  • Job 28:25
    68%

    25To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.

  • Prov 16:5
    68%

    5Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

  • Job 31:6
    68%

    6Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.

  • Prov 15:26
    68%

    26The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.

  • 1 Sam 2:3
    68%

    3Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

  • Prov 8:13
    68%

    13The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

  • Lev 18:27
    68%

    27For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)

  • Prov 12:22
    68%

    22Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.

  • Ezek 20:7
    67%

    7Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

  • Jer 17:10
    67%

    10I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

  • Isa 10:1
    67%

    1Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;

  • Prov 21:27
    67%

    27The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?

  • Deut 7:26
    67%

    26Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.

  • Ezek 11:21
    67%

    21But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD.

  • Prov 21:8
    67%

    8The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.

  • Deut 17:1
    67%

    1Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

  • Lev 18:30
    67%

    30Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.

  • 1 Kgs 7:37
    67%

    37After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one size.