10 Bible Verses about Balances, Dishonest Use

"You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity. You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

"You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath.

Unequal weights and unequal measures are both alike an abomination to the LORD.

A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, but a just weight is his delight.

A just balance and scales are the LORD's; all the weights in the bag are his work.

Unequal weights are an abomination to the LORD, and false scales are not good.

Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, look and take note! Search her squares to see if you can find a man, one who does justice and seeks truth, that I may pardon her.

"So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God." A merchant, in whose hands are false balances, he loves to oppress.

Hear this, you who trample on the needy and bring the poor of the land to an end, saying, "When will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great and deal deceitfully with false balances, that we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and sell the chaff of the wheat?"read more.
The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob: "Surely I will never forget any of their deeds. Shall not the land tremble on this account, and everyone mourn who dwells in it, and all of it rise like the Nile, and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?"

Can I forget any longer the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is accursed? Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights? Your rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.read more.
Therefore I strike you with a grievous blow, making you desolate because of your sins.