Proverbs 20:10

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ 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.›

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

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

  • Prov 11:1
    85%

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

  • Prov 16:10-12
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    80%

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

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

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

  • Deut 25:13-16
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    80%

    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.

  • Lev 19:35-36
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    78%

    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.

  • Mic 6:10-11
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    78%

    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 20:11
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    11 ¶ Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work [be] pure, and whether [it be] right.

  • Prov 17:15
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    15 ¶ He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both [are] abomination to the LORD.

  • Prov 11:20
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    20 ¶ They that are of a froward heart [are] abomination to the LORD: but [such as are] upright in [their] way [are] his delight.

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    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.

  • Prov 29:27
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    27 ¶ An unjust man [is] an abomination to the just: and [he that is] upright in the way [is] abomination to the wicked.

  • Prov 16:2
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    2 ¶ All the ways of a man [are] clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.

  • Prov 6:16
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    16 These six [things] doth the LORD hate: yea, seven [are] an abomination unto him:

  • Prov 20:9
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    9 ¶ Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

  • Prov 21:2-3
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    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.

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

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

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

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  • Prov 8:13
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    22 ¶ Lying lips [are] abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly [are] his delight.

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  • Deut 7:26
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    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.

  • Ezek 11:21
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