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Balances » False balance used
He is a merchant who has the balances of deceit in his hand; he loves to oppress.
saying, When the month is over, we will sell the wheat; and after the sabbath day we will open the storehouse of bread, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit;
Can I be pure with false balances and with a bag of deceitful weights?
Business life » Dishonesty » Condemned
A false balance is abomination to the LORD, but a just weight is his delight.
He is a merchant who has the balances of deceit in his hand; he loves to oppress.
Can I be pure with false balances and with a bag of deceitful weights?
As the partridge that steals that which she did not hatch, is he that gets riches and not with righteousness; in the midst of his days he shall leave them, and at his end shall be a fool.
It is bad, it is bad, the buyer says; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
Thou shalt not have in thy bag different weights, a great and a small.
Double weights and double measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of those that seek death.
Woe unto him that builds his house and not in righteousness and his chambers and not in judgment, using his neighbour's service without wages and not giving him the wages of his work!
Business life » Fidelity » Giving of just weights
A false balance is abomination to the LORD, but a just weight is his delight.
Can I be pure with false balances and with a bag of deceitful weights?
Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin shall ye have. I AM your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
A just weight and balance are the LORD's; all the weights of the bag are his work.
Thou shalt not have in thy bag different weights, a great and a small.
Double weights and double measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
Ye shall have just balances and a just ephah and a just bath.
Character » Of the wicked » Fraudulent
Can I be pure with false balances and with a bag of deceitful weights?
Lamed The wicked borrows and does not repay: but the righteous shows mercy and gives.
Character of the wicked » Fraudulent
Can I be pure with false balances and with a bag of deceitful weights?
Lamed The wicked borrows and does not repay: but the righteous shows mercy and gives.
Dishonesty » Condemned
A false balance is abomination to the LORD, but a just weight is his delight.
He is a merchant who has the balances of deceit in his hand; he loves to oppress.
Can I be pure with false balances and with a bag of deceitful weights?
As the partridge that steals that which she did not hatch, is he that gets riches and not with righteousness; in the midst of his days he shall leave them, and at his end shall be a fool.
It is bad, it is bad, the buyer says; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
Thou shalt not have in thy bag different weights, a great and a small.
Double weights and double measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of those that seek death.
Woe unto him that builds his house and not in righteousness and his chambers and not in judgment, using his neighbour's service without wages and not giving him the wages of his work!
Lying/lies » Who is a liar
This then is the promise which we have heard of him and declare unto you, That God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth;
Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto those that put their trust in him. Do not add unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
The true witness will not lie, but the false witness will utter lies.
Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would surely love me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither did I come of myself, but he sent me. Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. Ye are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father ye desire to do. He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it.
My little children, I write these things unto you, that ye sin not; and if anyone has sinned, we have an Advocate before the Father, Jesus, the righteous Christ; and he is the reconciliation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. And in this we do know that we have known him if we keep his commandments. read more.
He that says, I have known him, and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
He that says, I have known him, and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
If anyone says, I love God and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he that does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; nor his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips pronounce lies; your tongue speaks evil. read more.
No one calls for righteousness, nor do any judge by the truth; they trust in vanity, and speak vanities; they conceive trouble and bring forth iniquity.
No one calls for righteousness, nor do any judge by the truth; they trust in vanity, and speak vanities; they conceive trouble and bring forth iniquity.
Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked and the scant measure that is abominable? Can I be pure with false balances and with a bag of deceitful weights? With which their rich men are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Measure » Must be just
Thou shalt not have in thy bag different weights, a great and a small. Thou shalt not have in thy house different 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 gives thee. read more.
For all that do such things and all that do unrighteously are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
For all that do such things and all that do unrighteously are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
A false balance is abomination to the LORD, but a just weight is his delight.
Double weights are an abomination unto the LORD, and a false balance is not good.
A just weight and balance are the LORD's; all the weights of the bag are his work.
Double weights and double measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measurement of land, in weight, or in other measure. Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin shall ye have. I AM 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? Can I be pure with false balances and with a bag of deceitful weights? With which their rich men are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
He is a merchant who has the balances of deceit in his hand; he loves to oppress. And Ephraim said, Surely I have become rich, I have found riches for myself; no one shall find iniquity in me, nor sin in all my labours. But I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt; I will yet make thee to dwell in tents as in the days of the solemn feast.
Measures » Just weights
A false balance is abomination to the LORD, but a just weight is his delight.
Can I be pure with false balances and with a bag of deceitful weights?
Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin shall ye have. I AM your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
A just weight and balance are the LORD's; all the weights of the bag are his work.
Thou shalt not have in thy bag different weights, a great and a small.
Double weights and double measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
Ye shall have just balances and a just ephah and a just bath.
Satisfaction » Who shall not be satisfied
He that loves money shall not be satisfied with money; nor he that loves abundance with increase; this is also vanity.
Behold, he whose soul is not upright in him will become filled with pride, but the just in his faith shall live. Even more than he who is given over to wine, the transposer, the proud man, shall not remain, who enlarges his desire as Sheol and is as death and cannot be satisfied, but gathered unto him all the Gentiles and heaps unto him all the peoples;
The righteous eats until his soul is satisfied, but the belly of the wicked shall lack.
I AM your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their slaves; and I have broken the bands of your yoke and made you walk with your faces uplifted. But if ye will not hearken unto me and will not do all these my commandments; and if ye shall despise my statutes or if your soul should abhor my rights so that ye will not do all my commandments but that ye break my covenant, read more.
I also will do this unto you: I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague that shall consume the eyes and torment the soul, and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. And I will place my wrath upon you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies; those that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when no one pursues you. And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. And I will break the pride of your stronghold, and I will make your heaven as iron and your earth as bronze. And your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits. And if ye walk contrary unto me and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins. I will also send wild beasts among you which shall rapture your children and destroy your animals and make you few in number, and your ways shall be desolate. And if ye will not be corrected by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me, then will I also walk contrary unto you and will punish you yet seven times for your sins. And I will bring an avenging sword upon you, in vindication of the covenant; and ye shall gather together within your cities; but I will send pestilence among you, and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. When I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight, and ye shall eat and not be satisfied.
I also will do this unto you: I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague that shall consume the eyes and torment the soul, and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. And I will place my wrath upon you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies; those that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when no one pursues you. And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. And I will break the pride of your stronghold, and I will make your heaven as iron and your earth as bronze. And your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits. And if ye walk contrary unto me and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins. I will also send wild beasts among you which shall rapture your children and destroy your animals and make you few in number, and your ways shall be desolate. And if ye will not be corrected by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me, then will I also walk contrary unto you and will punish you yet seven times for your sins. And I will bring an avenging sword upon you, in vindication of the covenant; and ye shall gather together within your cities; but I will send pestilence among you, and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. When I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight, and ye shall eat and not be satisfied.
Thou hast played the whore also with the sons of Assyria because thou wast insatiable; thou hast played the harlot with them and yet could not be satisfied. Thou hast likewise multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan and of the Chaldeans, and yet thou wast not satisfied with this.
Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked and the scant measure that is abominable? Can I be pure with false balances and with a bag of deceitful weights? With which their rich men are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. read more.
Therefore I have also made thee weak in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins. Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take, but shalt not be saved; and that which thou dost save, I will give it up to the sword.
Therefore I have also made thee weak in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins. Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take, but shalt not be saved; and that which thou dost save, I will give it up to the sword.
Social duties » Mercifulness » Of giving just weights
A false balance is abomination to the LORD, but a just weight is his delight.
Can I be pure with false balances and with a bag of deceitful weights?
Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin shall ye have. I AM your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
A just weight and balance are the LORD's; all the weights of the bag are his work.
Thou shalt not have in thy bag different weights, a great and a small.
Double weights and double measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
Ye shall have just balances and a just ephah and a just bath.
Vices » Dishonesty » Condemned
A false balance is abomination to the LORD, but a just weight is his delight.
He is a merchant who has the balances of deceit in his hand; he loves to oppress.
Can I be pure with false balances and with a bag of deceitful weights?
As the partridge that steals that which she did not hatch, is he that gets riches and not with righteousness; in the midst of his days he shall leave them, and at his end shall be a fool.
It is bad, it is bad, the buyer says; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
Thou shalt not have in thy bag different weights, a great and a small.
Double weights and double measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of those that seek death.
Woe unto him that builds his house and not in righteousness and his chambers and not in judgment, using his neighbour's service without wages and not giving him the wages of his work!
Violence » Who is violent
Blessings are upon the head of the just, but the mouth of the wicked covers violence.
Whosoever hates his brother is a murderer and ye know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked and the scant measure that is abominable? Can I be pure with false balances and with a bag of deceitful weights? With which their rich men are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God; depart from me therefore, ye bloodthirsty men. For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.
Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; nor his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips pronounce lies; your tongue speaks evil. read more.
No one calls for righteousness, nor do any judge by the truth; they trust in vanity, and speak vanities; they conceive trouble and bring forth iniquity. They hatch cockatrice' eggs and weave the spider's web; whosoever shall eat of their eggs shall die, and if they should squeeze them, a viper shall come out. Their cloth is unfit to be a garment, neither shall they cover themselves with their works; their works are works of violence, and the work of iniquity is in their hands. Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are their paths.
No one calls for righteousness, nor do any judge by the truth; they trust in vanity, and speak vanities; they conceive trouble and bring forth iniquity. They hatch cockatrice' eggs and weave the spider's web; whosoever shall eat of their eggs shall die, and if they should squeeze them, a viper shall come out. Their cloth is unfit to be a garment, neither shall they cover themselves with their works; their works are works of violence, and the work of iniquity is in their hands. Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are their paths.
Virtues » Fidelity » Giving of just weights
A false balance is abomination to the LORD, but a just weight is his delight.
Can I be pure with false balances and with a bag of deceitful weights?
Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin shall ye have. I AM your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
A just weight and balance are the LORD's; all the weights of the bag are his work.
Thou shalt not have in thy bag different weights, a great and a small.
Double weights and double measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
Ye shall have just balances and a just ephah and a just bath.
Wealth » Treasures of wickedness
Tet A little that a righteous man has is better than the many riches of the sinners.
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.
Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked and the scant measure that is abominable? Can I be pure with false balances and with a bag of deceitful weights? With which their rich men are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Weights » Troy weights a gerah = 1/50 oz » 10 gerahs = 1 bekah = 1/5 oz
A false balance is abomination to the LORD, but a just weight is his delight.
Can I be pure with false balances and with a bag of deceitful weights?
Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin shall ye have. I AM your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
A just weight and balance are the LORD's; all the weights of the bag are his work.
Thou shalt not have in thy bag different weights, a great and a small.
Double weights and double measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
Ye shall have just balances and a just ephah and a just bath.
Weights » Must be just
A false balance is abomination to the LORD, but a just weight is his delight.
Double weights are an abomination unto the LORD, and a false balance is not good.
A just weight and balance are the LORD's; all the weights of the bag are his work.
Double weights and double measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measurement of land, in weight, or in other measure. Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin shall ye have. I AM your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Thou shalt not have in thy bag different weights, a great and a small. Thou shalt not have in thy house different 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 gives thee.
Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked and the scant measure that is abominable? Can I be pure with false balances and with a bag of deceitful weights?
Weights » The jews » Frequently used unjust
Can I be pure with false balances and with a bag of deceitful weights?
Wickedness » Treasures of wickedness
Tet A little that a righteous man has is better than the many riches of the sinners.
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.
Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked and the scant measure that is abominable? Can I be pure with false balances and with a bag of deceitful weights? With which their rich men are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.