Proverbs 11:1
A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.
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- Prov 16:11 : 11 Honest balances and scales are Yahweh's; all the weights in the bag are his work.
- Prov 20:10 : 10 Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
- Prov 20:23 : 23 Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing.
- Deut 25:13-16 : 13 You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small. 14 You shall not have in your house diverse measures, a great and a small. 15 You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you. 16 For all who do such things, [even] all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
- Lev 19:35-36 : 35 "'You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity. 36 You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
- Ezek 45:10-12 : 10 You 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 a homer, and the ephah the tenth part of a homer: its measure shall be after the homer. 12 The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.
- Hos 12:7 : 7 A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.
- Amos 8:5-6 : 5 Saying, 'When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit; 6 that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?'"
- Mic 6:10-11 : 10 Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed? 11 Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
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13 You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small.
14 You shall not have in your house diverse measures, a great and a small.
15 You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
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22 Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.
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20 Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to Yahweh, but those whose ways are blameless are his delight.
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8 The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
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2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.
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7 A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.
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6 (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);
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16 There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:
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2 When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom.
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2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.
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27 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!
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17 and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate," says Yahweh.
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8 Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.
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9 Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.
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3 "Talk no more so exceeding proudly. Don't let arrogance come out of your mouth, For Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.
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32 For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his friendship is with the upright.
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3 For the wicked boasts of his heart's cravings. He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh.
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15 It is joy to the righteous to do justice; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
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5 Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: they shall certainly not be unpunished.
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23 A wicked man receives a bribe in secret, to pervert the ways of justice.
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18 Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.
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7 The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right.
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17 He who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies.
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7 The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.