Proverbs 16:11

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 11:1 : 1 A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
  • Prov 20:10 : 10 Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
  • Prov 20:23 : 23 Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
  • Ezek 45:10 : 10 Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
  • Hos 12:7 : 7 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
  • Amos 8:5 : 5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
  • Mic 6:11 : 11 Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
  • Lev 19:35-36 : 35 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. 36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
  • Deut 25:13-15 : 13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. 14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small. 15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 11:1
    85%

    1A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.

  • Prov 20:23
    81%

    23Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.

  • Prov 20:10-11
    2 verses
    80%

    10Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.

    11Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

  • Mic 6:10-11
    2 verses
    79%

    10Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?

    11Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

  • Lev 19:35-36
    2 verses
    77%

    35Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.

    36Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.

  • Prov 16:10
    77%

    10A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment.

  • Deut 25:13-16
    4 verses
    76%

    13Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.

    14Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.

    15But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

    16For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

  • Prov 16:1-3
    3 verses
    75%

    1The eparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.

    2All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.

    3Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.

  • Ezek 45:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.

    11The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.

  • Ps 111:7
    73%

    7The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure.

  • Job 28:25
    73%

    25To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.

  • Prov 21:1-3
    3 verses
    73%

    1The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.

    2Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.

    3To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

  • Prov 16:12
    73%

    12It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.

  • Job 31:6
    72%

    6Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.

  • Prov 16:33
    72%

    33The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.

  • Isa 26:7
    71%

    7The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.

  • Ps 33:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth.

    5He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.

  • Ps 145:17
    71%

    17The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.

  • 1 Sam 2:3
    71%

    3Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

  • Isa 40:12
    70%

    12Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

  • Prov 16:8
    70%

    8Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.

  • Ezra 8:34
    70%

    34By number and by weight of every one: and all the weight was written at that time.

  • Hos 12:7
    69%

    7He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

  • Job 6:2
    69%

    2Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

  • Ps 111:3
    69%

    3His work is honourable and glorious: and his righteousness endureth for ever.

  • Ps 62:9
    69%

    9Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

  • Ps 99:4
    69%

    4The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.

  • 1 Chr 16:14
    69%

    14He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth.

  • Isa 46:6
    68%

    6They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.

  • Prov 17:15
    68%

    15He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.

  • Deut 16:20
    68%

    20That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

  • Zech 5:8
    68%

    8And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.

  • Ps 9:16
    68%

    16The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

  • Ps 103:6
    68%

    6The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.

  • Dan 5:27
    68%

    27TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

  • Ps 145:14
    68%

    14The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down.

  • Ps 129:4
    68%

    4The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

  • Ps 22:28
    68%

    28For the kingdom is the LORD'S: and he is the governor among the nations.