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Bible Verses About Balances

This noindex topical Bible draft for Balances was seeded from the public-domain reference inventory in Nave's Topical Bible. It stores Scripture references and source provenance only, not copied competitor commentary or modern editorial text.

Before publishing, an editor should verify the passage set against THF Bible tools, choose the clearest anchor passages, remove weak or duplicate references, add early Christian evidence where available, and connect the page to relevant lessons, courses, videos, Strong's data, interlinear study, and cross-reference tools. The source inventory included 6 topic entries and produced 13 parsed verse references for review.

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13 references

Supporting Passages

Job 31:6 primary

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

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Who 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?

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Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

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And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.

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They 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.

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And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.

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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.

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

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

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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?

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

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

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

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