Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Balances » False balance used
Jehovah says: The merchants use dishonest scales. They love to cheat people.
You say: When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit.
Can I be pure with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful stone weights?
Business life » Dishonesty » Condemned
A false scale balance is an abomination to Jehovah. A perfect weight is his delight.
Jehovah says: The merchants use dishonest scales. They love to cheat people.
Can I be pure with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful stone weights?
A person who gets rich dishonestly is like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay. During his lifetime, he will lose his wealth. In the end, he will be a wicked fool.
Good for nothing, cries the buyer. But when he goes his way he boasts about the purchase.
Do not have differing weights, a large and a small, in your bag.
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them are an abomination to Jehovah.
Wealth acquired by lying is fleeting vapor and a deadly pursuit.
Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness and his upper rooms without justice. Woe to him who uses his neighbor's services without pay and does not give him his wages.
Business life » Fidelity » Giving of just weights
A false scale balance is an abomination to Jehovah. A perfect weight is his delight.
Can I be pure with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful stone weights?
Use honest scales, honest weights, and honest measures. I am Jehovah your God who brought you out of Egypt.
Honest scales and balances are from Jehovah. He sets the standard for the weights of the bag.
Do not have differing weights, a large and a small, in your bag.
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them are an abomination to Jehovah.
You must have honest scales and honest dry and liquid measures.
Character » Of the wicked » Fraudulent
Can I be pure with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful stone weights?
The wicked borrows and does not pay back. But the righteous is gracious and gives.
Character of the wicked » Fraudulent
Can I be pure with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful stone weights?
The wicked borrows and does not pay back. But the righteous is gracious and gives.
Dishonesty » Condemned
A false scale balance is an abomination to Jehovah. A perfect weight is his delight.
Jehovah says: The merchants use dishonest scales. They love to cheat people.
Can I be pure with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful stone weights?
A person who gets rich dishonestly is like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay. During his lifetime, he will lose his wealth. In the end, he will be a wicked fool.
Good for nothing, cries the buyer. But when he goes his way he boasts about the purchase.
Do not have differing weights, a large and a small, in your bag.
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them are an abomination to Jehovah.
Wealth acquired by lying is fleeting vapor and a deadly pursuit.
Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness and his upper rooms without justice. Woe to him who uses his neighbor's services without pay and does not give him his wages.
Lying/lies » Who is a liar
This is the message we heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not live (practice) the truth.
Every word of God is pure. He is a shield to those who trust him. Do not add to his words of he will reprove you. You will be found to be a liar.
A faithful witness will not lie, but a false witness utters lies.
Jesus said: If God were your Father you would love me. I came from God! I have not come from myself. He sent me! Why do you not understand what I say? Can you not hear me? You are from your father [Satan] the Devil (slanderer) (false accuser)! You want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning. He does not stand for the truth. There is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks his own lies. He is a liar and the father of the lie!
My little children, I write you these things that you may not sin. If any man sin, we have an Advocate (intercessor) (comforter) (helper) with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous! He is the propitiation (Greek: hilasmos: atonement, compensation) for our sins. Not for ours only, but also for the whole world. We know that we know him, when we obey his commandments. read more.
He who says: I know him, and does not obey his commandments is a liar! The truth is not in him.
He who says: I know him, and does not obey his commandments is a liar! The truth is not in him.
If a man says, I love God, yet he hates his brother, he is a liar! He who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.
The hand of Jehovah is not too weak to save or his ear too deaf to hear. But your wrongs have separated you from your God. Your sins have made him hide his face so that he does not even hear you. Your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers are desecrated with sin. You speak lies, and you mutter wicked things. read more.
No one calls for justice and no one pleads his case truthfully. People trust pointless arguments and speak lies. They conceive trouble and give birth to evil.
No one calls for justice and no one pleads his case truthfully. People trust pointless arguments and speak lies. They conceive trouble and give birth to evil.
Is there a depository of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short measure that is cursed? Can I be pure with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful stone weights? The rich men are full of violence! Her inhabitants speak lies. Their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Measure » Must be just
Do not have differing weights, a large and a small, in your bag. Do not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small. You must have a full and just weight. You should have a full and just measure, that your days may be prolonged in the land Jehovah your God gives you. read more.
Everyone who does these things, everyone who acts unjustly is an abomination to Jehovah your God.
Everyone who does these things, everyone who acts unjustly is an abomination to Jehovah your God.
A false scale balance is an abomination to Jehovah. A perfect weight is his delight.
Many and different weights are an abomination to Jehovah and a false balance is not good.
Honest scales and balances are from Jehovah. He sets the standard for the weights of the bag.
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them are an abomination to Jehovah.
Do not be corrupt when administering justice concerning length, weight, or measuring liquid. Use honest scales, honest weights, and honest measures. I am Jehovah your God who brought you out of Egypt.
Is there a depository of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short measure that is cursed? Can I be pure with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful stone weights? The rich men are full of violence! Her inhabitants speak lies. Their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Jehovah says: The merchants use dishonest scales. They love to cheat people. The people of Ephraim say: We are rich. We have made a fortune. With all this wealth, no one will find us guilty of any sin. I am Jehovah your God. I brought you out of Egypt. I will make you live in tents again as you did during your appointed festivals.
Measures » Just weights
A false scale balance is an abomination to Jehovah. A perfect weight is his delight.
Can I be pure with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful stone weights?
Use honest scales, honest weights, and honest measures. I am Jehovah your God who brought you out of Egypt.
Honest scales and balances are from Jehovah. He sets the standard for the weights of the bag.
Do not have differing weights, a large and a small, in your bag.
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them are an abomination to Jehovah.
You must have honest scales and honest dry and liquid measures.
Satisfaction » Who shall not be satisfied
He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth, with gain. This too is vanity.
Behold, he is proud. He is not righteous. The righteous will live by faith. Wine is treacherous and never allows an arrogant man to rest. He never stays home. He has a large appetite like the grave. Like death he is never satisfied. He gathers all nations and collects all the people.
The righteous eats to satisfaction. The belly of the wicked is in need.
I am Jehovah your God. I brought you out of Egypt so that you are no longer slaves of the Egyptians. I have broken their power over you and made you live as a free people. If you will not listen to me and obey all these commandments, if you reject my laws and look at my rules with disgust, if you reject my promise by disobeying my commandments, read more.
then this is what I will do to you: I will terrorize you with disease and fever. You will suffer from eye problems and depression. You will plant your crops and get nothing because your enemies will eat them. I will condemn you so that you will go down in defeat in front of your enemies. Those who hate you will be your rulers. You will run away even when no one is chasing you. If you still will not listen to me, I will discipline you seven times for your sins. I will crush your arrogance. You will have no rain, and your land will be as hard as cement. Your strength will be spent uselessly. Your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit. If you act with hostility against me and are unwilling to obey me I will increase the plague on you seven times according to your sins. I will send wild animals among you. They will rob you of your children. They will destroy your cattle, and make you so few that your roads will be deserted. If this discipline does not help and you still resist, I will resist you. I will punish you seven times for your sins. I will bring war on you to get revenge for my promise you rejected. When you gather in your cities, I will send plagues on you and you will fall under the control of your enemy. I will destroy your food supply. Ten women will need only one oven to prepare your food. You will eat and go away hungry.
then this is what I will do to you: I will terrorize you with disease and fever. You will suffer from eye problems and depression. You will plant your crops and get nothing because your enemies will eat them. I will condemn you so that you will go down in defeat in front of your enemies. Those who hate you will be your rulers. You will run away even when no one is chasing you. If you still will not listen to me, I will discipline you seven times for your sins. I will crush your arrogance. You will have no rain, and your land will be as hard as cement. Your strength will be spent uselessly. Your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit. If you act with hostility against me and are unwilling to obey me I will increase the plague on you seven times according to your sins. I will send wild animals among you. They will rob you of your children. They will destroy your cattle, and make you so few that your roads will be deserted. If this discipline does not help and you still resist, I will resist you. I will punish you seven times for your sins. I will bring war on you to get revenge for my promise you rejected. When you gather in your cities, I will send plagues on you and you will fall under the control of your enemy. I will destroy your food supply. Ten women will need only one oven to prepare your food. You will eat and go away hungry.
The others did not satisfy you so you ran after the Assyrians. You were their prostitute, but they did not satisfy you either. You were also a prostitute for the Babylonians, that nation of merchants, but they did not satisfy you either.
Is there a depository of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short measure that is cursed? Can I be pure with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful stone weights? The rich men are full of violence! Her inhabitants speak lies. Their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. read more.
I also struck you with a grievous wound. I made you desolate because of your sins. You will eat and not be satisfied. Your stomach will still be empty. You will put away and yet will not save. That which you save I will give to the sword.
I also struck you with a grievous wound. I made you desolate because of your sins. You will eat and not be satisfied. Your stomach will still be empty. You will put away and yet will not save. That which you save I will give to the sword.
Social duties » Mercifulness » Of giving just weights
A false scale balance is an abomination to Jehovah. A perfect weight is his delight.
Can I be pure with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful stone weights?
Use honest scales, honest weights, and honest measures. I am Jehovah your God who brought you out of Egypt.
Honest scales and balances are from Jehovah. He sets the standard for the weights of the bag.
Do not have differing weights, a large and a small, in your bag.
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them are an abomination to Jehovah.
You must have honest scales and honest dry and liquid measures.
Vices » Dishonesty » Condemned
A false scale balance is an abomination to Jehovah. A perfect weight is his delight.
Jehovah says: The merchants use dishonest scales. They love to cheat people.
Can I be pure with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful stone weights?
A person who gets rich dishonestly is like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay. During his lifetime, he will lose his wealth. In the end, he will be a wicked fool.
Good for nothing, cries the buyer. But when he goes his way he boasts about the purchase.
Do not have differing weights, a large and a small, in your bag.
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them are an abomination to Jehovah.
Wealth acquired by lying is fleeting vapor and a deadly pursuit.
Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness and his upper rooms without justice. Woe to him who uses his neighbor's services without pay and does not give him his wages.
Violence » Who is violent
Blessings cover the head of the righteous. Violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
Whoever hates his brother is a murderer! You know that no murderer has everlasting life remaining in him.
Is there a depository of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short measure that is cursed? Can I be pure with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful stone weights? The rich men are full of violence! Her inhabitants speak lies. Their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
If you would destroy the wicked, O God, depart from me, therefore, men of bloodshed. For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain.
The hand of Jehovah is not too weak to save or his ear too deaf to hear. But your wrongs have separated you from your God. Your sins have made him hide his face so that he does not even hear you. Your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers are desecrated with sin. You speak lies, and you mutter wicked things. read more.
No one calls for justice and no one pleads his case truthfully. People trust pointless arguments and speak lies. They conceive trouble and give birth to evil. They hatch viper eggs and weave spider webs. Those who eat their eggs will die. When an egg is crushed, a poisonous snake is hatched. Their webs cannot be used for clothes. They cannot cover themselves with their works for their works are evil. Their hands have committed acts of violence. Their feet run to do evil. They hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are evil. Ruin and destruction are on their highways.
No one calls for justice and no one pleads his case truthfully. People trust pointless arguments and speak lies. They conceive trouble and give birth to evil. They hatch viper eggs and weave spider webs. Those who eat their eggs will die. When an egg is crushed, a poisonous snake is hatched. Their webs cannot be used for clothes. They cannot cover themselves with their works for their works are evil. Their hands have committed acts of violence. Their feet run to do evil. They hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are evil. Ruin and destruction are on their highways.
Virtues » Fidelity » Giving of just weights
A false scale balance is an abomination to Jehovah. A perfect weight is his delight.
Can I be pure with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful stone weights?
Use honest scales, honest weights, and honest measures. I am Jehovah your God who brought you out of Egypt.
Honest scales and balances are from Jehovah. He sets the standard for the weights of the bag.
Do not have differing weights, a large and a small, in your bag.
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them are an abomination to Jehovah.
You must have honest scales and honest dry and liquid measures.
Wealth » Treasures of wickedness
Better is the little of the righteous than the abundance of many wicked.
Treasures of wickedness (the morally wrong) profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.
Is there a depository of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short measure that is cursed? Can I be pure with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful stone weights? The rich men are full of violence! Her inhabitants speak lies. Their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Weights » Troy weights a gerah = 1/50 oz » 10 gerahs = 1 bekah = 1/5 oz
A false scale balance is an abomination to Jehovah. A perfect weight is his delight.
Can I be pure with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful stone weights?
Use honest scales, honest weights, and honest measures. I am Jehovah your God who brought you out of Egypt.
Honest scales and balances are from Jehovah. He sets the standard for the weights of the bag.
Do not have differing weights, a large and a small, in your bag.
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them are an abomination to Jehovah.
You must have honest scales and honest dry and liquid measures.
Weights » Must be just
A false scale balance is an abomination to Jehovah. A perfect weight is his delight.
Many and different weights are an abomination to Jehovah and a false balance is not good.
Honest scales and balances are from Jehovah. He sets the standard for the weights of the bag.
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them are an abomination to Jehovah.
Do not be corrupt when administering justice concerning length, weight, or measuring liquid. Use honest scales, honest weights, and honest measures. I am Jehovah your God who brought you out of Egypt.
Do not have differing weights, a large and a small, in your bag. Do not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small. You must have a full and just weight. You should have a full and just measure, that your days may be prolonged in the land Jehovah your God gives you.
Is there a depository of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short measure that is cursed? Can I be pure with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful stone weights?
Weights » The jews » Frequently used unjust
Can I be pure with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful stone weights?
Wickedness » Treasures of wickedness
Better is the little of the righteous than the abundance of many wicked.
Treasures of wickedness (the morally wrong) profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.
Is there a depository of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short measure that is cursed? Can I be pure with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful stone weights? The rich men are full of violence! Her inhabitants speak lies. Their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.