Proverbs 20:23
¶ Divers weights [are] an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance [is] not good.
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Referenced Verses
- Prov 20:10 : 10 ¶ Divers weights, [and] divers measures, both of them [are] alike abomination to the LORD.
- 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?
- Prov 11:1 : 1 ¶ A false balance [is] abomination to the LORD: but a just weight [is] his delight.
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- Prov 20:10-112 verses90%
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.
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1 ¶ A false balance [is] abomination to the LORD: but a just weight [is] his delight.
- Prov 16:10-123 verses81%
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 25:13-164 verses80%
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.
- Mic 6:10-112 verses78%
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 19:35-362 verses76%
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.
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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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27 ¶ An unjust man [is] an abomination to the just: and [he that is] upright in the way [is] abomination to the wicked.
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22 ¶ Say not thou, I will recompense evil; [but] wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.
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22 ¶ Lying lips [are] abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly [are] his delight.
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10 Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
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17 And 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.
- Exod 23:1-22 verses72%
1 ¶ Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to [do] evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest [judgment]:
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7 ¶ [He is] a merchant, the balances of deceit [are] in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
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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 21:2-32 verses71%
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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24 ¶ Man's goings [are] of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
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16 These six [things] doth the LORD hate: yea, seven [are] an abomination unto him:
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21 ¶ To have respect of persons [is] not good: for for a piece of bread [that] man will transgress.
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2 ¶ All the ways of a man [are] clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.
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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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23 ¶ These [things] also [belong] to the wise. [It is] not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
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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.
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27 ¶ The sacrifice of the wicked [is] abomination: how much more, [when] he bringeth it with a wicked mind?
- Exod 23:6-72 verses70%
6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
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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.
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16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
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20 Woe 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!
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23 ¶ A wicked [man] taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.
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7 ¶ The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.
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29 Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.
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5 ¶ [It is] not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
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6 Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
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5 ¶ A righteous [man] hateth lying: but a wicked [man] is loathsome, and cometh to shame.
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13 The fear of the LORD [is] to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
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26 ¶ The thoughts of the wicked [are] an abomination to the LORD: but [the words] of the pure [are] pleasant words.
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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.
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3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they [are] deceitful meat.
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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?