Proverbs 20:23

World English Bible (2000)

Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 20:10 : 10 Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
  • Ezek 45:10 : 10 You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
  • Hos 12:7 : 7 A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.
  • Amos 8:5 : 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;
  • Prov 11:1 : 1 A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.

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  • Prov 20:10-11
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    10 Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

    11 Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.

  • Prov 11:1
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    1 A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.

  • Prov 16:10-12
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    10 Inspired judgments are on the lips of the king. He shall not betray his mouth.

    11 Honest balances and scales are Yahweh's; all the weights in the bag are his work.

    12 It is an abomination for kings to do wrong, for the throne is established by righteousness.

  • Deut 25:13-16
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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.

    16 For all who do such things, [even] all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.

  • Mic 6:10-11
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    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?

  • Lev 19:35-36
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    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.

  • Prov 11:20
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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.

  • Prov 29:27
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    27 A dishonest man detests the righteous, and the upright in their ways detest the wicked.

  • Prov 20:22
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    22 Don't say, "I will pay back evil." Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

  • Prov 12:22
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    22 Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.

  • Ezek 45:10
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    10 You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.

  • Zech 8:17
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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.

  • Exod 23:1-2
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    1 "You shall not spread a false report. Don't join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

    2 "You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice;

  • Hos 12:7
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    7 A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.

  • Prov 17:15
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    15 He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

  • Prov 21:2-3
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    2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

    3 To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

  • Prov 20:24
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    24 A man's steps are from Yahweh; how then can man understand his way?

  • Prov 6:16
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    16 There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:

  • Prov 28:21
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    21 To show partiality is not good; yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.

  • Prov 16:2
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    2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

  • Prov 15:9
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    9 The way of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but he loves him who follows after righteousness.

  • Prov 24:23
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    23 These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality in judgment is not good.

  • Ps 62:9
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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.

  • Prov 21:27
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    27 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!

  • Exod 23:6-7
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    6 "You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

    7 "Keep far from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.

  • Zech 5:8
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    8 He said, "This is Wickedness;" and he threw her down into the midst of the ephah basket; and he threw the weight of lead on its mouth.

  • Exod 20:16
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    16 "You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

  • Isa 5:20
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    20 Woe 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
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    23 A wicked man receives a bribe in secret, to pervert the ways of justice.

  • Prov 21:7
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    7 The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right.

  • Prov 24:29
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    29 Don't say, "I will do to him as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work."

  • Prov 18:5
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    5 To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice.

  • Job 31:6
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    6 (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);

  • Prov 13:5
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    5 A righteous man hates lies, but a wicked man brings shame and disgrace.

  • Prov 8:13
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    13 The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

  • Prov 15:26
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    26 Yahweh detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.

  • 1 Sam 2:3
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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.

  • Prov 23:3
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    3 Don't be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.

  • Amos 8:5
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    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;