Proverbs 20:10

Proverbs 20:10 in other translations

What does Proverbs 20:10 mean?

Proverbs 20:10 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Proverbs 20:10

• Proverbs 20:23

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

• Proverbs 11:1

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

• 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.

• Deuteronomy 25:13-15

  Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small. But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

• Micah 6:10-11

  Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable? Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

• Amos 8:4-7

  Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, 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? That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat? The Lord hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.

• Revelation 21:8

  But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

• Deuteronomy 7:25-26

  The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God. Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.

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Context

• Proverbs 20:9

  Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

• Proverbs 20:10

  Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord.

• Proverbs 20:11

  Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

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