Thematic Bible: Balances
Thematic Bible
Balances » Figurative
"Oh that my vexation were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
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(Let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!)
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Those of low estate are but a breath; those of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they 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 heavens with a span, enclosed 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 have been weighed in the balances and found wanting;
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When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, "Come!" And I looked, and behold, a black horse! And its rider had a pair of scales in his hand.
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Balances » Used for weighing
"And you, O son of man, take a sharp sword. Use it as a barber's razor and pass it over your head and your beard. Then take balances for weighing and divide the hair.
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(Let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!)
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Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed 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 from a bucket, and are accounted as the dust on the scales; behold, he takes up the coastlands like fine dust.
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Balances » False balance used
A merchant, in whose hands are false balances, he loves to oppress.
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saying, "When will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great and deal deceitfully with false balances,
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Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights?
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Balances » Money weighed with
Those who lavish gold from the purse, and weigh out silver in the scales, hire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god; then they fall down and worship!
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I signed the deed, sealed it, got witnesses, and weighed the money on scales.
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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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A just balance 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 a just weight is his delight.
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Unequal weights are an abomination to the LORD, and false scales are not good.
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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