Proverbs 11:1 Themes and Topics

Do not have in your bag different weights, a great and a small; Or in your house different measures, a great and a small. But have a true weight and a true measure: so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you. read more.
For all who do such things, and all whose ways are not upright, are disgusting to the Lord your God.

Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is his delight. Verse Concepts

Wine makes men foolish, and strong drink makes men come to blows; and whoever comes into error through these is not wise. Verse Concepts

Unequal weights are disgusting to the Lord, and false scales are not good. Verse Concepts

Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is his delight. Verse Concepts

Unequal weights are disgusting to the Lord, and false scales are not good. Verse Concepts

Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is his delight. Verse Concepts

As for Canaan, the scales of deceit are in his hands; he takes pleasure in twisted ways. Verse Concepts

Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment? Verse Concepts

Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish. Verse Concepts

A poor thing, a poor thing, says he who is giving money for goods: but when he has gone on his way, then he makes clear his pride in what he has got. Verse Concepts

Do not have in your bag different weights, a great and a small; Verse Concepts

Unequal weights and unequal measures, they are all disgusting to the Lord. Verse Concepts

He who gets stores of wealth by a false tongue, is going after what is only breath, and searching for death. Verse Concepts

A curse is on him who is building his house by wrongdoing, and his rooms by doing what is not right; who makes use of his neighbour without payment, and gives him nothing for his work; Verse Concepts

Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is his delight. Verse Concepts

Do not make false decisions in questions of yard-sticks and weights and measures. Have true scales, true weights and measures for all things: I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt;

But have a true weight and a true measure: so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you. Verse Concepts

Do not give evil for evil to any man. Let all your business be well ordered in the eyes of all men. Verse Concepts

Be in debt for nothing, but to have love for one another: for he who has love for his neighbour has kept all the law. Verse Concepts

For the business has been so ordered by us as to have the approval, not only of the Lord, but of men. Verse Concepts

For the rest, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things have honour, whatever things are upright, whatever things are holy, whatever things are beautiful, whatever things are of value, if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, give thought to these things. Verse Concepts

Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is his delight. Verse Concepts

Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment? Verse Concepts

Have true scales, true weights and measures for all things: I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt; Verse Concepts

True measures and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are his work. Verse Concepts

Do not have in your bag different weights, a great and a small; Verse Concepts

Unequal weights and unequal measures, they are all disgusting to the Lord. Verse Concepts

Have true scales and a true ephah and a true bath. Verse Concepts

Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is his delight. Verse Concepts

And Samuel said, Has the Lord as much delight in offerings and burned offerings as in the doing of his orders? Truly, to do his pleasure is better than to make offerings, and to give ear to him than the fat of sheep. Verse Concepts

The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and he takes delight in his way. Verse Concepts

The offering of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright man is his delight. Verse Concepts

This is the word of the Lord: Let not the wise man take pride in his wisdom, or the strong man in his strength, or the man of wealth in his wealth: But if any man has pride, let it be in this, that he has the wisdom to have knowledge of me, that I am the Lord, working mercy, giving true decisions, and doing righteousness in the earth: for in these things I have delight, says the Lord.

Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy. Verse Concepts