Proverbs 16:11

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 11:1 : 1 ¶ A false balance [is] abomination to the LORD: but a just weight [is] his delight.
  • Prov 20:10 : 10 ¶ Divers weights, [and] divers measures, both of them [are] alike abomination to the LORD.
  • Prov 20:23 : 23 ¶ Divers weights [are] an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance [is] not good.
  • Ezek 45:10 : 10 Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
  • Hos 12:7 : 7 ¶ [He is] a merchant, the balances of deceit [are] in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
  • Amos 8:5 : 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?
  • Mic 6:11 : 11 Shall I count [them] pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
  • Lev 19:35-36 : 35 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. 36 Just 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.
  • 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 11:1
    85%

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

  • Prov 20:23
    81%

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

  • Prov 20:10-11
    2 verses
    80%

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

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

  • Mic 6:10-11
    2 verses
    79%

    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?

  • Lev 19:35-36
    2 verses
    77%

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

    36 Just 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.

  • Prov 16:10
    77%

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

  • Deut 25:13-16
    4 verses
    76%

    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.

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

  • Prov 16:1-3
    3 verses
    75%

    1 ¶ The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, [is] from the LORD.

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

    3 ¶ Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.

  • Ezek 45:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

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

    11 The 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.

  • Ps 111:7
    73%

    7 The works of his hands [are] verity and judgment; all his commandments [are] sure.

  • Job 28:25
    73%

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

  • Prov 21:1-3
    3 verses
    73%

    1 ¶ The king's heart [is] in the hand of the LORD, [as] the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.

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

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

  • Prov 16:12
    73%

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

  • Job 31:6
    72%

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

  • Prov 16:33
    72%

    33 ¶ The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof [is] of the LORD.

  • Isa 26:7
    71%

    7 The way of the just [is] uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.

  • Ps 33:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4 For the word of the LORD [is] right; and all his works [are done] in truth.

    5 He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.

  • Ps 145:17
    71%

    17 The LORD [is] righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.

  • 1 Sam 2:3
    71%

    3 Talk 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.

  • Isa 40:12
    70%

    12 ¶ Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

  • Prov 16:8
    70%

    8 ¶ Better [is] a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.

  • Ezra 8:34
    70%

    34 By number [and] by weight of every one: and all the weight was written at that time.

  • Hos 12:7
    69%

    7 ¶ [He is] a merchant, the balances of deceit [are] in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

  • Job 6:2
    69%

    2 Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

  • Ps 111:3
    69%

    3 His work [is] honourable and glorious: and his righteousness endureth for ever.

  • Ps 62:9
    69%

    9 Surely men of low degree [are] vanity, [and] men of high degree [are] a lie: to be laid in the balance, they [are] altogether [lighter] than vanity.

  • Ps 99:4
    69%

    4 The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.

  • 1 Chr 16:14
    69%

    14 He [is] the LORD our God; his judgments [are] in all the earth.

  • Isa 46:6
    68%

    6 They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, [and] hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.

  • Prov 17:15
    68%

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

  • Deut 16:20
    68%

    20 That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

  • Zech 5:8
    68%

    8 And 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.

  • Ps 9:16
    68%

    16 The LORD is known [by] the judgment [which] he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

  • Ps 103:6
    68%

    6 ¶ The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.

  • Dan 5:27
    68%

    27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

  • Ps 145:14
    68%

    14 The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all [those that be] bowed down.

  • Ps 129:4
    68%

    4 The LORD [is] righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

  • Ps 22:28
    68%

    28 For the kingdom [is] the LORD'S: and he [is] the governor among the nations.