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Proverbs 11:1

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

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In Context

2When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 25:13Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.

Proverbs 16:11A just weight and balance are the LORD’S: all the weights of the bag are his work.

Proverbs 20:23Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.

Hosea 12:7He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

Amos 8:5Saying, 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?

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