Proverbs 11:1

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Proverbs 11:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

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

2 When pride comes, disgrace follows, but with humility comes wisdom.

3 The integrity of the upright guides them, but the perversity of the faithless destroys them.

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Proverbs 16:11

Honest scales and balances are from the LORD; all the weights in the bag are His concern.

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.

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.

Hosea 12:7

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

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!”

Micah 6:10

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

Micah 6:11

Can I excuse dishonest scales or bags of false weights?

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.