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Amos 3:10
For they do not know to do right,’ Says the Lord,‘ Who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.’”
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Amos 8:5-6
Saying:“ When will the New Moon be past, That we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, That we may trade wheat? Making the ephah small and the shekel large, Falsifying the scales by deceit,That we may buy the poor for silver, And the needy for a pair of sandals— Even sell the bad wheat?”
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Jeremiah 5:26-27
‘ For among My people are found wicked men; They lie in wait as one who sets snares; They set a trap; They catch men.As a cage is full of birds, So their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become great and grown rich.
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Proverbs 20:10
Diverse weights and diverse measures, They are both alike, an abomination to the Lord.
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Proverbs 11:1
Dishonest scales are an abomination to the Lord, But a just weight is His delight.
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Leviticus 19:35-36
‘ You shall do no injustice in judgment, in measurement of length, weight, or volume.You shall have honest scales, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
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Proverbs 21:6
Getting treasures by a lying tongue Is the fleeting fantasy of those who seek death.
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Deuteronomy 25:13-16
“ You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a heavy and a light.You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small.You shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure, that your days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.For all who do such things, all who behave unrighteously, are an abomination to the Lord your God.
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2 Kings 5 23-2 Kings 5 24
So Naaman said,“ Please, take two talents.” And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and handed them to two of his servants; and they carried them on ahead of him.When he came to the citadel, he took them from their hand, and stored them away in the house; then he let the men go, and they departed.
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Ezekiel 45:9-12
‘ Thus says the Lord GOD:“ Enough, O princes of Israel! Remove violence and plundering, execute justice and righteousness, and stop dispossessing My people,” says the Lord GOD.“ You shall have honest scales, an honest ephah, and an honest bath.The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, so that the bath contains one-tenth of a homer, and the ephah one-tenth of a homer; their measure shall be according to the homer.The shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your mina.
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Habakkuk 2:5-11
“ Indeed, because he transgresses by wine, He is a proud man, And he does not stay at home. Because he enlarges his desire as hell, And he is like death, and cannot be satisfied, He gathers to himself all nations And heaps up for himself all peoples.“ Will not all these take up a proverb against him, And a taunting riddle against him, and say,‘ Woe to him who increases What is not his— how long? And to him who loads himself with many pledges’?Will not your creditors rise up suddenly? Will they not awaken who oppress you? And you will become their booty.Because you have plundered many nations, All the remnant of the people shall plunder you, Because of men’s blood And the violence of the land and the city, And of all who dwell in it.“ Woe to him who covets evil gain for his house, That he may set his nest on high, That he may be delivered from the power of disaster!You give shameful counsel to your house, Cutting off many peoples, And sin against your soul.For the stone will cry out from the wall, And the beam from the timbers will answer it.
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Zephaniah 1:9
In the same day I will punish All those who leap over the threshold, Who fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit.
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Zechariah 5:3-4
Then he said to me,“ This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole earth:‘ Every thief shall be expelled,’ according to this side of the scroll; and,‘ Every perjurer shall be expelled,’ according to that side of it.”“ I will send out the curse,” says the Lord of hosts;“ It shall enter the house of the thief And the house of the one who swears falsely by My name. It shall remain in the midst of his house And consume it, with its timber and stones.”
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Proverbs 20:23
Diverse weights are an abomination to the Lord, And dishonest scales are not good.
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Hosea 12:7-8
“ A cunning Canaanite! Deceitful scales are in his hand; He loves to oppress.And Ephraim said,‘ Surely I have become rich, I have found wealth for myself; In all my labors They shall find in me no iniquity that is sin.’
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James 5:1-4
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you!Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days.Indeed the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
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Proverbs 10:2
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, But righteousness delivers from death.
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Joshua 7:1
But the children of Israel committed a trespass regarding the accursed things, for Achan the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed things; so the anger of the Lord burned against the children of Israel.