Proverbs 20:10

KJV1611 – Modern English

Diverse weights and diverse measures, both of them are alike an abomination to the LORD.

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  • Prov 11:1 : 1 A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, but an accurate weight is His delight.
  • Prov 20:23 : 23 Diverse weights are an abomination to the LORD, and a false balance is not good.
  • Amos 8:4-7 : 4 Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land fail, 5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, making the ephah small and the shekel large, and falsifying the balances with deceit? 6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals; yes, and sell the refuse of the wheat? 7 The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their deeds.
  • Mic 6:10-11 : 10 Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the short measure that is abominable? 11 Shall I count them pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
  • Prov 16:11 : 11 A just weight and balance are the LORD's; all the weights in the bag are His work.
  • Lev 19:35 : 35 You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measuring yard, in weight, or in measure.
  • Deut 25:13-15 : 13 You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a large and a small. 14 You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small. 15 But you shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shall you have, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
  • Deut 7:25-26 : 25 The graven images of their gods you shall burn with fire: you shall not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it to you, lest you be ensnared by it: for it is an abomination to the LORD your God. 26 Neither shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you become a cursed thing like it: but you shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and sexually immoral, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 20:23-24
    2 verses
    90%

    23Diverse weights are an abomination to the LORD, and a false balance is not good.

    24A man's steps are of the LORD; how then can a man understand his own way?

  • Prov 11:1
    85%

    1A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, but an accurate weight is His delight.

  • Prov 16:10-12
    3 verses
    80%

    10A divine sentence is in the lips of the king; his mouth does not transgress in judgment.

    11A just weight and balance are the LORD's; all the weights in the bag are His work.

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

  • Deut 25:13-16
    4 verses
    80%

    13You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a large and a small.

    14You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small.

    15But you shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shall you have, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

    16For all who do such things, and all who act unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD your God.

  • Lev 19:35-36
    2 verses
    78%

    35You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measuring yard, in weight, or in measure.

    36Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, you shall have: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

  • Mic 6:10-11
    2 verses
    78%

    10Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the short measure that is abominable?

    11Shall I count them pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

  • Prov 20:11
    75%

    11Even a child is known by his deeds, whether his work is pure and right.

  • Prov 17:15
    74%

    15He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just, both of them are an abomination to the LORD.

  • Prov 11:20
    74%

    20Those who are of a perverse heart are an abomination to the LORD, but the upright in their way are His delight.

  • Ezek 45:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

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

    11The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, so that the bath may contain a tenth part of a homer, and the ephah a tenth part of a homer: their measure shall be according to the homer.

  • Prov 29:27
    72%

    27An unjust man is an abomination to the just; and he who is upright in the way is an abomination to the wicked.

  • Prov 16:2
    72%

    2All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes; but the LORD weighs the spirits.

  • Prov 6:16
    71%

    16These six things the LORD hates: yes, seven are an abomination to him:

  • Prov 20:9
    71%

    9Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

  • Prov 21:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the hearts.

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

  • Zech 5:8
    70%

    8And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon its opening.

  • Hag 2:16
    70%

    16Since those days were, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty.

  • Prov 15:9
    69%

    9The way of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but He loves those who pursue righteousness.

  • Zech 8:17
    69%

    17And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbor; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, says the LORD.

  • Isa 5:20
    69%

    20Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

  • Deut 18:12
    69%

    12For all who do these things are an abomination to the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD your God drives them out from before you.

  • Mal 2:17
    68%

    17You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, How have we wearied him? When you say, Everyone that does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them; or, Where is the God of justice?

  • Job 28:25
    68%

    25To make a weight for the winds, and he measures the waters by measure.

  • Prov 16:5
    68%

    5Everyone that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though they join hand in hand, they shall not go unpunished.

  • Job 31:6
    68%

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

  • Prov 15:26
    68%

    26The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD, but the words of the pure are pleasant words.

  • 1 Sam 2:3
    68%

    3Talk no more so proudly; let not arrogance come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

  • Prov 8:13
    68%

    13The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; pride and arrogance and the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.

  • Lev 18:27
    68%

    27For all these abominations have the men of the land done, who were before you, and the land is defiled;

  • Prov 12:22
    68%

    22Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD, but those who deal truthfully are His delight.

  • Ezek 20:7
    67%

    7Then I said to them, Cast away every man the abominations of his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

  • Jer 17:10
    67%

    10I the LORD search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his deeds.

  • Isa 10:1
    67%

    1Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and who write out oppressive laws they have prescribed;

  • Prov 21:27
    67%

    27The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more when he brings it with an evil intent?

  • Deut 7:26
    67%

    26Neither shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you become a cursed thing like it: but you shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.

  • Ezek 11:21
    67%

    21But as for those whose hearts follow the hearts of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, says the Lord GOD.

  • Prov 21:8
    67%

    8The way of the guilty is crooked and strange, but as for the pure, his work is right.

  • Deut 17:1
    67%

    1You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God any bull or sheep that has a blemish or any defect, for that is an abomination to the LORD your God.

  • Lev 18:30
    67%

    30Therefore you shall keep my ordinance, that you do not commit any of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that you do not defile yourselves by them: I am the LORD your God.

  • 1 Kgs 7:37
    67%

    37Thus he made the ten bases; all of them had one casting, one measure, and one size.