10 Bible Verses about Balances, Dishonest Use

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Leviticus 19:35-36

Do not be corrupt when administering justice concerning length, weight, or measuring liquid. Use honest scales, honest weights, and honest measures. I am Jehovah your God who brought you out of Egypt.

Ezekiel 45:10

You must have honest scales and honest dry and liquid measures.

Jeremiah 5:1

People of Jerusalem, run through your streets! Look around and see for yourselves! Search the marketplaces! Can you find one person who does what is right and tries to be faithful to God? If you can, Jehovah will forgive Jerusalem.

Hosea 12:6-7

Return to your God. Constantly express loving kindness and justice. Always wait with hope in your God. Jehovah says: The merchants use dishonest scales. They love to cheat people.

Amos 8:4-8

Hear this, you who would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail. You say: 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 dealing falsely with balances of deceit. We may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?read more.
Jehovah has sworn by the pride of Jacob: I will never forget any of their works. Will the land not tremble for this, and every one who dwells there mourn? I will rise up like the river. It will be troubled and sink again, like the River of Egypt.

Micah 6:10-13

Is there a depository of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short measure that is cursed? Can I be pure with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful stone weights? The rich men are full of violence! Her inhabitants speak lies. Their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.read more.
I also struck you with a grievous wound. I made you desolate because of your sins.

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