Thematic Bible: Balances
Thematic Bible
Balances » Figurative
"Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances.
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(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);
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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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Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
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TEKEL; you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.
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When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, "Come." And I saw, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a balance in his hand.
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Balances » Used for weighing
"You, son of man, take a sharp sword; You shall take it as a barber's razor to you, and shall cause it to pass on your head and on your beard: then take balances to weigh, and divide the hair.
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(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);
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Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
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Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.
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Balances » False balance used
A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.
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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;
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Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
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Balances » Money weighed with
Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down?yes, they worship.
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I subscribed the deed, and sealed it, and called witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.
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Balances » Must be just
You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
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Honest balances and scales are the LORD's; all the weights in the bag are his work.
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Balances » An abomination
A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, but accurate weights are his delight.
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The LORD detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing.
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Related Topics
- Abominations, To God
- Accuracy
- Balance In Life
- Balances, Dishonest Use
- Balances, For Business
- Balances, Metaphorical Use
- Business Ethics
- Buying and selling
- Cheating
- Covenant breakers
- Deception, Forbidden By God
- Dishonesty