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Balances » False balance used
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loves to oppress.
Saying, 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 falsifying the balances by deceit?
Shall I count those pure with the wicked balances, and with the 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, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loves to oppress.
Shall I count those pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
As the partridge sits on eggs, and hatches them not; so he that gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
It is nothing, it is nothing, says the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a great and a small.
Diverse weights, and diverse 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 them that seek death.
Woe unto him that builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that uses his neighbor's service without wages, and gives him nothing for his work;
Business life » Fidelity » Giving of just weights
A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
Shall I count those pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall you have: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
A just weight and balance are the LORD's: all the weights in the bag are his work.
You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a great and a small.
Diverse weights, and diverse measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
Character » Of the wicked » Fraudulent
Shall I count those pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
The wicked borrows, and pays not again: but the righteous shows mercy, and gives.
Character of the wicked » Fraudulent
Shall I count those pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
The wicked borrows, and pays not again: 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, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loves to oppress.
Shall I count those pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
As the partridge sits on eggs, and hatches them not; so he that gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
It is nothing, it is nothing, says the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a great and a small.
Diverse weights, and diverse 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 them that seek death.
Woe unto him that builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that uses his neighbor's service without wages, and gives him nothing for his work;
Lying/lies » Who is a liar
This then is the message 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 them that put their trust in him. Add not unto his words, lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar.
A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.
Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, you would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. Why do you not understand my speech? even because you cannot hear my word. You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will 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, these things write I unto you, that you sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. And by this we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. read more.
He that says, I know him, and keeps not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
He that says, I know him, and keeps not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
If a man says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar: for he that loves not 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; neither his ear dull, 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 have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness. read more.
None calls for justice, nor does any plead for truth: they trust in empty words, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
None calls for justice, nor does any plead for truth: they trust in empty words, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the short measure that is abominable? Shall I count those pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? For her rich men are full of violence, and her inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Measure » Must be just
You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a great and a small. You shall not have in your house differing measures, a great and a small. But you shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shall you have: that your days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD your God gives you. read more.
For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD your God.
For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD your God.
A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
Diverse 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 in the bag are his work.
Diverse weights, and diverse measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, or weight, or quantity. Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall you 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 short measure that is abominable? Shall I count those pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? For her rich men are full of violence, and her inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loves to oppress. And Ephraim said, Yet I have become rich, I have found myself wealth: in all my labors they shall find no iniquity in me that is sin. And I that am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt will yet make you to dwell in tents, as in the days of the appointed feast.
Measures » Just weights
A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
Shall I count those pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall you have: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
A just weight and balance are the LORD's: all the weights in the bag are his work.
You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a great and a small.
Diverse weights, and diverse measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
Satisfaction » Who shall not be satisfied
He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loves abundance, with increase: this is also vanity.
Behold, his soul which is proud is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith. Yea also, because he transgresses by wine, he is a proud man, neither keeps at home, who enlarges his desire as sheol, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathers unto him all nations, and heaps unto him all people:
The righteous eats to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall go hungry.
I am the LORD your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you walk upright. But if you will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; And if you shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhors my judgments, so that you will not do all my commandments, but that you break my covenant: read more.
I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning fever, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. And I will set my face against you, and you shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and you shall flee when none pursues you. And if you 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 power; and I will make your heavens as iron, and your earth as bronze: And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield its increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits. And if you 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 animals among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your highways shall be desolate. And if you will not be reformed 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 a sword upon you, that shall bring the vengeance of my covenant: and when you are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. And when I have broken the supply of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.
I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning fever, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. And I will set my face against you, and you shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and you shall flee when none pursues you. And if you 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 power; and I will make your heavens as iron, and your earth as bronze: And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield its increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits. And if you 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 animals among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your highways shall be desolate. And if you will not be reformed 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 a sword upon you, that shall bring the vengeance of my covenant: and when you are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. And when I have broken the supply of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.
You have played the harlot also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yea, you have played the harlot with them, and yet could not be satisfied. You have moreover multiplied your harlotry with trading in the land of Chaldea; and yet you were not satisfied with this.
Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the short measure that is abominable? Shall I count those pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? For her rich men are full of violence, and her inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. read more.
Therefore also will I make you sick in striking you, in making you desolate because of your sins. You shall eat, but not be satisfied; and hunger shall be in your midst; and you shall carry away, but shall not save; and that which you save will I give up to the sword.
Therefore also will I make you sick in striking you, in making you desolate because of your sins. You shall eat, but not be satisfied; and hunger shall be in your midst; and you shall carry away, but shall not save; and that which you save will I give 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.
Shall I count those pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall you have: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
A just weight and balance are the LORD's: all the weights in the bag are his work.
You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a great and a small.
Diverse weights, and diverse measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
You 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, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loves to oppress.
Shall I count those pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
As the partridge sits on eggs, and hatches them not; so he that gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
It is nothing, it is nothing, says the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a great and a small.
Diverse weights, and diverse 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 them that seek death.
Woe unto him that builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that uses his neighbor's service without wages, and gives him nothing for his work;
Violence » Who is violent
Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
Whosoever hates his brother is a murderer: and you 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 short measure that is abominable? Shall I count those pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? For her rich men are full of violence, and her inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Surely you will slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, you bloody men. For they speak against you wickedly, and your enemies take your name in vain.
Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear dull, 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 have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness. read more.
None calls for justice, nor does any plead for truth: they trust in empty words, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. They hatch viper's eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eats of their eggs dies, and from that which is crushed a viper breaks out. Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence 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 in their paths.
None calls for justice, nor does any plead for truth: they trust in empty words, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. They hatch viper's eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eats of their eggs dies, and from that which is crushed a viper breaks out. Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence 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 in their paths.
Virtues » Fidelity » Giving of just weights
A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
Shall I count those pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall you have: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
A just weight and balance are the LORD's: all the weights in the bag are his work.
You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a great and a small.
Diverse weights, and diverse measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
Wealth » Treasures of wickedness
A little that a righteous man has is better than the riches of many wicked.
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 short measure that is abominable? Shall I count those pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? For her rich men are full of violence, and her inhabitants 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.
Shall I count those pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall you have: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
A just weight and balance are the LORD's: all the weights in the bag are his work.
You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a great and a small.
Diverse weights, and diverse measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
You 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.
Diverse 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 in the bag are his work.
Diverse weights, and diverse measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, or weight, or quantity. Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall you have: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a great and a small. You shall not have in your house differing measures, a great and a small. But you shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shall you have: that your days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the short measure that is abominable? Shall I count those pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
Weights » The jews » Frequently used unjust
Shall I count those pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
Wickedness » Treasures of wickedness
A little that a righteous man has is better than the riches of many wicked.
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 short measure that is abominable? Shall I count those pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? For her rich men are full of violence, and her inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.