Proverbs 20:23

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Prov 20:10 : 10 Diverse weights and diverse measures, both of them are alike an abomination to the LORD.
  • Ezek 45:10 : 10 You 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 loves to oppress.
  • Amos 8:5 : 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?
  • Prov 11:1 : 1 A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, but an accurate weight is His delight.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 20:10-11
    2 verses
    90%

    10Diverse weights and diverse measures, both of them are alike an abomination to the LORD.

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

  • Prov 11:1
    89%

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

  • Prov 16:10-12
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    81%

    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.

  • 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?

  • Lev 19:35-36
    2 verses
    76%

    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.

  • 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.

  • Prov 29:27
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    27An unjust man is an abomination to the just; and he who is upright in the way is an abomination to the wicked.

  • Prov 20:22
    73%

    22Do not say, I will recompense evil; wait on the LORD, and He shall save you.

  • Prov 12:22
    72%

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

  • Ezek 45:10
    72%

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

  • Zech 8:17
    72%

    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.

  • Exod 23:1-2
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    72%

    1You shall not spread a false report; do not join hands with the wicked to be a dishonest witness.

    2You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to pervert justice by following the majority.

  • Hos 12:7
    71%

    7He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand; he loves to oppress.

  • Prov 17:15
    71%

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

  • Prov 21:2-3
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    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.

  • Prov 20:24
    71%

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

  • Prov 6:16
    70%

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

  • Prov 28:21
    70%

    21To show partiality is not good; for a piece of bread that man will transgress.

  • Prov 16:2
    70%

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

  • Prov 15:9
    70%

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

  • Prov 24:23
    70%

    23These sayings also belong to the wise: It is not good to show partiality in judgment.

  • Ps 62:9
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    9Surely 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.

  • Prov 21:27
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    27The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more when he brings it with an evil intent?

  • Exod 23:6-7
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    6You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his dispute.

    7Keep far from a false matter, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked.

  • 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.

  • Exod 20:16
    69%

    16You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

  • 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!

  • Prov 17:23
    69%

    23A wicked man takes a bribe out of the bosom, to pervert the ways of justice.

  • Prov 21:7
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    7The robbery of the wicked will destroy them, because they refuse to do justice.

  • Prov 24:29
    69%

    29Do not say, I will do to him as he has done to me; I will pay the man back for his work.

  • Prov 18:5
    69%

    5It is not good to show partiality to the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.

  • Job 31:6
    69%

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

  • Prov 13:5
    69%

    5A righteous man hates lying, but a wicked man is loathsome and comes to shame.

  • Prov 8:13
    69%

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

  • Prov 15:26
    69%

    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 23:3
    68%

    3Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food.

  • Amos 8:5
    68%

    5Saying, 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?