Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Measure » Must be just
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small: Thou shalt not have in thy house divers measures, a great and a small: But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have; 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 unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD thy God.
For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD thy God.
A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
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Divers weights are an abomination to the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
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A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work.
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Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
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Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in weight, in measure of length or of capacity. Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable? Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress. And Ephraim said, Yet I have become rich, I have found for myself substance: in all my labors they shall find no iniquity in me that were sin. And I that am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.
Presumption » Exhibited in » Self-righteousness
Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
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And Ephraim said, Yet I have become rich, I have found for myself substance: in all my labors they shall find no iniquity in me that were sin.
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Riches » Often lead to » Pride
By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches:
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And Ephraim said, Yet I have become rich, I have found for myself substance: in all my labors they shall find no iniquity in me that were sin.
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Self-delusion » Prosperity frequently leads to
And Ephraim said, Yet I have become rich, I have found for myself substance: in all my labors they shall find no iniquity in me that were sin.
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And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.
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And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to deposit my fruits? And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I deposit all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast abundance of goods laid up for many years; take thy ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
Self-delusion » Exemplified » israelites
And Ephraim said, Yet I have become rich, I have found for myself substance: in all my labors they shall find no iniquity in me that were sin.
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