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Proverbs 11:1 KJV

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

Proverbs 11:1, King James Version

In context

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

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

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Cross-references

  • Deuteronomy 25:13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
  • Proverbs 20:23 Divers weights are an abomination unto the Lord; and a false balance is not good.
  • Proverbs 16:11 A just weight and balance are the Lord’s: all the weights of the bag are his work.
  • Leviticus 19:35 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
  • Proverbs 20:10 Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord.