Micah 6:10

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Micah 6:8–12 · Berean Standard Bible

8 He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

9 The voice of the LORD calls out to the city (and it is sound wisdom to fear Your name): “Heed the rod and the One who ordained it.

10 Can I forget any longer, O house of the wicked, the treasures of wickedness and the short ephah, which is accursed?

11 Can I excuse dishonest scales or bags of false weights?

12 For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.

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Joshua 7:1

The Israelites, however, acted unfaithfully regarding the things devoted to destruction. Achan son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of what was set apart. So the anger of the LORD burned against the Israelites.

2 Kings 5:23

But Naaman insisted, “Please, take two talents.” And he urged Gehazi to accept them. Then he tied up two talents of silver in two bags along with two sets of clothing and gave them to two of his servants, who carried them ahead of Gehazi.

2 Kings 5:24

When Gehazi came to the hill, he took the gifts from the servants and stored them in the house. Then he dismissed the men, and they departed.

Proverbs 10:2

Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.

Proverbs 21:6

Making a fortune by a lying tongue is a vanishing mist, a deadly pursuit.

Jeremiah 5:26

For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.

Jeremiah 5:27

Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich.

Amos 3:10

“For they know not how to do right,” declares the LORD. “They store up violence and destruction in their citadels.”

Habakkuk 2:5

and wealth indeed betrays him. He is an arrogant man never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations to himself and collects all the peoples as his own.

Habakkuk 2:6

Will not all of these take up a taunt against him, speaking with mockery and derision: ‘Woe to him who amasses what is not his and makes himself rich with many loans! How long will this go on?’

Habakkuk 2:7

Will not your creditors suddenly arise and those who disturb you awaken? Then you will become their prey.

Habakkuk 2:8

Because you have plundered many nations, the remnant of the people will plunder you— because of your bloodshed against man and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.

Habakkuk 2:9

Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!

Habakkuk 2:10

You have plotted shame for your house by cutting off many peoples and forfeiting your life.

Habakkuk 2:11

For the stones will cry out from the wall, and the rafters will echo it from the woodwork.

Zephaniah 1:9

On that day I will punish all who leap over the threshold, who fill the house of their master with violence and deceit.

Zechariah 5:3

Then he told me, “This is the curse that is going out over the face of all the land, for according to one side of the scroll, every thief will be removed; and according to the other side, every perjurer will be removed.

Zechariah 5:4

I will send it out, declares the LORD of Hosts, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of him who swears falsely by My name. It will remain inside his house and destroy it, down to its timbers and stones.”

James 5:1

Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.

James 5:2

Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes.

James 5:3

Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded treasure in the last days.

James 5:4

Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

Leviticus 19:35

You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume.

Leviticus 19:36

You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 25:13

You shall not have two differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.

Deuteronomy 25:14

You shall not have two differing measures in your house, one large and one small.

Deuteronomy 25:15

You must maintain accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

Deuteronomy 25:16

For everyone who behaves dishonestly in regard to these things is detestable to the LORD your God.

Proverbs 11:1

Dishonest scales are an abomination to the LORD, but an accurate weight is His delight.

Proverbs 20:10

Differing weights and unequal measures — both are detestable to the LORD.

Proverbs 20:23

Unequal weights are detestable to the LORD, and dishonest scales are no good.

Ezekiel 45:9

For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Enough, O princes of Israel! Cease your violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Stop dispossessing My people, declares the Lord GOD.’

Ezekiel 45:10

You must use honest scales, a just ephah, and a just bath.

Ezekiel 45:11

The ephah and the bath shall be the same quantity so that the bath will contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer will be the standard measure for both.

Ezekiel 45:12

The shekel will consist of twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels will equal one mina.

Hosea 12:7

A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.

Hosea 12:8

And Ephraim boasts: “How rich I have become! I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors, they can find in me no iniquity that is sinful.”

Amos 8:5

asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.

Amos 8:6

Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”