Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Balances » False balance used
But the merchant hath a false weight in his hand, he hath a pleasure to occupy extortion.
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"When will the new month be gone, that we may sell victuals; and the Sabbath, that we may have scarceness of corn; to make the bushel less, and the Sicle greater?
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Or should I justify the false balances and the bag of deceitful weights,
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Business life » Dishonesty » Condemned
A false balance is an abomination to the LORD; but a true weight pleaseth him.
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But the merchant hath a false weight in his hand, he hath a pleasure to occupy extortion.
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Or should I justify the false balances and the bag of deceitful weights,
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The deceitful maketh a nest, but bringeth forth no young: He cometh by riches, but not righteously. In the midst of his life must he leave them behind him, and at the last be found a very fool.
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"It is naught; It is naught," sayeth he that buyeth anything: but when he cometh to his own house, then he boasteth of his pennyworth.
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Thou shalt not have in thy bag two manner weights, a great and a small:
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To use two manner of weights, or two manner of measures, both these are abominable unto the LORD.
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Whoso hordeth up riches with the deceitfulness of his tongue: he is a fool, and like unto them that seek their own death.
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Woe worth him, that buildeth his house with unrighteousness, and his parlors with the good that he hath gotten by violence: which never recompenceth his neighbour's labour, nor payeth him his hire.
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Commerce » Evil practices connected with
But the merchant hath a false weight in his hand, he hath a pleasure to occupy extortion.
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"It is naught; It is naught," sayeth he that buyeth anything: but when he cometh to his own house, then he boasteth of his pennyworth.
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Behold, I have smitten my hands upon thy covetousness, that thou hast used, and upon the blood which hath been shed in thee.
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The seat of the king that faithfully judgeth the poor, shall continue sure for ever more.
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Dishonesty » Condemned
A false balance is an abomination to the LORD; but a true weight pleaseth him.
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But the merchant hath a false weight in his hand, he hath a pleasure to occupy extortion.
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Or should I justify the false balances and the bag of deceitful weights,
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The deceitful maketh a nest, but bringeth forth no young: He cometh by riches, but not righteously. In the midst of his life must he leave them behind him, and at the last be found a very fool.
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"It is naught; It is naught," sayeth he that buyeth anything: but when he cometh to his own house, then he boasteth of his pennyworth.
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Thou shalt not have in thy bag two manner weights, a great and a small:
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To use two manner of weights, or two manner of measures, both these are abominable unto the LORD.
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Whoso hordeth up riches with the deceitfulness of his tongue: he is a fool, and like unto them that seek their own death.
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Woe worth him, that buildeth his house with unrighteousness, and his parlors with the good that he hath gotten by violence: which never recompenceth his neighbour's labour, nor payeth him his hire.
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Measure » Must be just
Thou shalt not have in thy bag two manner weights, a great and a small: neither shalt thou have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small. But thou shalt have a perfect and a just measure: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. read more.
For all that do such things and all that do unright, are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
For all that do such things and all that do unright, are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
A false balance is an abomination to the LORD; but a true weight pleaseth him.
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The LORD abhoreth two manner of weights, and a false balance is an evil thing.
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A true measure and a true balance are the LORD's; he maketh all weights.
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To use two manner of weights, or two manner of measures, both these are abominable unto the LORD.
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"'Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, neither in meteyard, weight or measure. But ye shall have true balances, true weights, a true ephah and a true hin. I am the LORD your God which brought you out of the land of Egypt,
Should I not be displeased, for the unrighteous good in the houses of the wicked and because the measure is diminished? Or should I justify the false balances and the bag of deceitful weights, among those that be full of riches unrighteously gotten: where the citizens deal with falsity, speak lies, and have deceitful tongues in their mouths?
But the merchant hath a false weight in his hand, he hath a pleasure to occupy extortion. Ephraim thinketh thus, "Tush, I am rich, I have good enough: In all my works shall not one fault be found, that I have offended." Yet am I the LORD thy God, even as when I brought thee out of the land of Egypt, and set thee in thy tents, and as in the high feast days.
Vices » Dishonesty » Condemned
A false balance is an abomination to the LORD; but a true weight pleaseth him.
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But the merchant hath a false weight in his hand, he hath a pleasure to occupy extortion.
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Or should I justify the false balances and the bag of deceitful weights,
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The deceitful maketh a nest, but bringeth forth no young: He cometh by riches, but not righteously. In the midst of his life must he leave them behind him, and at the last be found a very fool.
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"It is naught; It is naught," sayeth he that buyeth anything: but when he cometh to his own house, then he boasteth of his pennyworth.
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Thou shalt not have in thy bag two manner weights, a great and a small:
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To use two manner of weights, or two manner of measures, both these are abominable unto the LORD.
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Whoso hordeth up riches with the deceitfulness of his tongue: he is a fool, and like unto them that seek their own death.
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Woe worth him, that buildeth his house with unrighteousness, and his parlors with the good that he hath gotten by violence: which never recompenceth his neighbour's labour, nor payeth him his hire.
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