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Amos 3:10
But they do not know how to do what is right,” declares the Lord,“ these who store up violence and devastation in their citadels.”
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Amos 8:5-6
saying,“ When will the new moon be over, So that we may sell grain; And the Sabbath, so that we may open the wheat market, To make the ephah smaller and the shekel bigger, And to cheat with dishonest scales,So as to buy the helpless for money, And the needy for a pair of sandals, And that we may sell the refuse of the wheat?”
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Jeremiah 5:26-27
For wicked people are found among My people, They watch like fowlers lying in wait; They set a trap, They catch people.Like a cage full of birds, So their houses are full of deceit; Therefore they have become great and rich.
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Proverbs 20:10
Differing weights and differing measures, Both of them are abominable to the Lord.
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Proverbs 11:1
A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, But a just weight is His delight.
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Leviticus 19:35-36
‘ You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measurement of weight, or volume.You shall have accurate balances, accurate weights, an accurate ephah, and an accurate hin; I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt.
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Proverbs 21:6
The acquisition of treasures by a lying tongue Is a fleeting vapor, the pursuit of death.
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Deuteronomy 25:13-16
“ You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a large and a small.You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small.You shall have a correct and honest weight; you shall have a correct and honest measure, so that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.For everyone who does these things, everyone who acts unjustly is an abomination to the Lord your God.
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2 Kings 5 23-2 Kings 5 24
Naaman said,“ Be sure to take two talents.” And he urged him, and tied up two talents of silver in two bags with two changes of clothes, and gave them to two of his servants; and they carried them before him.When he came to the hill, he took them from their hand and deposited them in the house, and he sent the men away, and they departed.
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Ezekiel 45:9-12
‘ This is what the Lord God says:“ Enough, you princes of Israel; get rid of violence and destruction, and practice justice and righteousness. Revoke your evictions of My people,” declares the Lord God.“ You shall have accurate balances, an accurate ephah, and an accurate bath.The ephah and the bath shall be the same quantity, so that the bath will contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; their standard shall be according to the homer.And 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
Furthermore, wine betrays an arrogant man, So that he does not achieve his objective. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, And he is like death, never satisfied. He also gathers to himself all the nations And collects to himself all the peoples.“ Will all of these not take up a song of ridicule against him, Even a saying and insinuations against him And say,‘ Woe to him who increases what is not his— For how long— And makes himself rich with debts!’Will your creditors not rise up suddenly, And those who collect from you awaken? Indeed, you will become plunder for them.Since you have looted many nations, All the rest of the peoples will loot you— Because of human bloodshed and violence done to the land, To the town and all its inhabitants.“ Woe to him who makes evil profit for his household, To put his nest on high, To be saved from the hand of catastrophe!You have planned a shameful thing for your house By bringing many peoples to an end; So you are sinning against yourself.For the stone will cry out from the wall, And the rafter will answer it from the framework.
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Zephaniah 1:9
And on that day I will punish all who leap on the temple threshold, Who fill the house of their lord with violence and deceit.
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Zechariah 5:3-4
Then he said to me,“ This is the curse that is going forth over the face of the entire land; everyone who steals certainly will be purged away according to the writing on one side, and everyone who swears falsely will be purged away according to the writing on the other side.I will make it go forth,” declares the Lord of armies,“ and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by My name; and it will spend the night within that house and destroy it with its timber and stones.”
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Proverbs 20:23
Differing weights are an abomination to the Lord, And a false scale is not good.
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Hosea 12:7-8
A merchant, in whose hands are fraudulent balances, Loves to exploit.And Ephraim said,“ I have certainly become rich, I have found wealth for myself; In all my labors they will find in me No wrongdoing, which would be sin.”
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James 5:1-4
Come now, you rich people, weep and howl for your miseries which are coming upon you.Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth eaten.Your gold and your silver have corroded, and their corrosion will serve as a testimony against you and will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have stored up your treasure!Behold, the pay of the laborers who mowed your fields, and which has been withheld by you, cries out against you; and the outcry of those who did the harvesting has reached the ears of the Lord of armies.
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Proverbs 10:2
Ill gotten gains do not benefit, But righteousness rescues from death.
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Joshua 7:1
But the sons of Israel acted unfaithfully regarding the things designated for destruction, for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, from the tribe of Judah, took some of the designated things; therefore the anger of the Lord burned against the sons of Israel.