Hosea 12:7
"He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress."
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- Proverbs 11:1
"A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight."
Read in chapter → - Amos 8:5
"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?"
Read in chapter → - Micah 6:10
"Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?"
Read in chapter → - Amos 3:9
"Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof."
Read in chapter → - Malachi 3:5
"And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts."
Read in chapter → - Amos 2:7
"That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:"
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 16:11
"A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work."
Read in chapter → - Ezekiel 22:29
"The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully."
Read in chapter → - 1 Timothy 6:9
"But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition."
Read in chapter → - Isaiah 3:5
"And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable."
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