10 Bible Verses about Balances, Dishonest Use
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You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures and weights, or in quantity. You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Different kinds of weights, different kinds of measures, both are hateful to Jehovah.
False balances are hateful to Jehovah; but a just weight is His delight.
A just weight and balance are Jehovah's; all the weights of the bag are His work.
Different kinds of weights are hateful to Jehovah, and a false balance is not good.
Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in her open places, if you can find a man, if there is one who does justice, who seeks the truth; and I will pardon her.
Therefore turn to your God; keep mercy and judgment, and wait on your God forever. He is a merchant; the scales of deceit are in his hand; he loves to oppress.
Hear this, you who trample the poor, even to make the humble of the land to fail, saying, When will the new moon be gone so that we may sell grain? And the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small and the shekel great, and perverting the balances by deceit; 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.
Jehovah has sworn by the Glory of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works. Shall not the land tremble for this, and all who dwell in it mourn? And all of it shall rise up like the light. And it shall overflow and sink like the Nile of Egypt.
Are the treasures of wickedness still in the house of the wicked, and the short measure that is hateful? Shall I count those with the wicked scales pure, and those with the bag of deceitful weights? For its rich men are full of violence, and its people have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.read more.
Therefore I also have made you sick by striking you, laying you waste because of your sins.
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