10 Bible Verses about Balances, Dishonest Use

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 have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.

Diverse weights, and diverse measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.

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

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

Diverse weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.

Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its broad places, if you can find a man, if there is any that executes justice, that seeks the truth; and I will pardon it.

Therefore turn you to your God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on your God continually. He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loves to oppress.

Hear this, O you that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, 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? That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?read more.
The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works. Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwells in it? and it shall rise up wholly as the river; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the river 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.read more.
Therefore also will I make you sick in striking you, in making you desolate because of your sins.