Proverbs 11:1
A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
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- Prov 16:11 : 11 A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work.
- 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.
- Deut 25:13-16 : 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 : 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.
- Ezek 45:10-12 : 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. 12 And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
- Hos 12:7 : 7 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
- Amos 8:5-6 : 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?
- 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?
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23 Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
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11 A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work.
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10 Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
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10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?
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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.
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22 Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.
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20 They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are uight in their way are his delight.
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27 An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is uight in the way is abomination to the wicked.
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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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15 He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.
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8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the ayer of the uight is his delight.
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10 Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
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2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.
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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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6 Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
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16 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
17 A oud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
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2 When ide cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
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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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13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: ide, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
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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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27 The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?
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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.
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8 Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
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32 For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.
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3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
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15 It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
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5 Every one that is oud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
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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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18 The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.
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7 The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.
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17 He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.
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7 The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.