Proverbs 16:11

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

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

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

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    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.

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

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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.

  • Prov 16:1-3
    3 verses
    75%

    1 The eparations 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.

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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.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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?

  • 8 Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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