Proverbs 11:1 Cross References


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Proverbs 11:1

A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.

Deuteronomy 25:13-16

“You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a large and a small. You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, a large and a small. A full and fair weight you shall have, a full and fair measure you shall have, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. For all who do such things, all who act dishonestly, are an abomination to the Lord your God.

Proverbs 16:11

A just balance and scales are the Lord's; all the weights in the bag are his work.

Proverbs 20:23

Unequal weights are an abomination to the Lord, and false scales are not good.

Leviticus 19:35-36

“You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity. You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Proverbs 20:10

Unequal weights and unequal measures are both alike an abomination to the Lord.

Hosea 12:7

A merchant, in whose hands are false balances, he loves to oppress.

Amos 8:5-6

saying, “When will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great and deal deceitfully with false balances, that we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and sell the chaff of the wheat?”

Ezekiel 45:10-12

“You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath. The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, the bath containing one tenth of a homer, and the ephah one tenth of a homer; the homer shall be the standard measure. The shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.

Micah 6:10-11

Can I forget any longer the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is accursed? Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights?