Proverbs 26:24

Honest balances and scales are Yahweh’s; all the weights in the bag are his work.

Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing.

For all who do such things, all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.

God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.”

If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

But if any man hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises up against him, strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities;

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.

You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, one heavy and one light.

When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand. So he struck him with it in the body, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn’t strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.

whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,

Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but joy comes to the promoters of peace.

A truthful witness will not lie, but a false witness pours out lies.

A man’s steps are from Yahweh; how then can man understand his way?

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

Then Laban and Bethuel answered, “The thing proceeds from Yahweh. We can’t speak to you bad or good.

“ ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:

a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.

A truthful witness saves souls, but a false witness is deceitful.

“Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.

“You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath.

A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.

These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

For it is written, “Rejoice, you barren who don’t bear. Break out and shout, you who don’t travail. For the desolate have more children than her who has a husband.”

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.’

Joseph said, “Give me your livestock; and I will give you food for your livestock, if your money is gone.”

My soul, don’t come into their council. My glory, don’t be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.

“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

If he shoved him out of hatred, or hurled something at him while lying in wait, so that he died,

Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”

Saul was even more afraid of David; and Saul was David’s enemy continually.

Absalom her brother said to her, “Has Amnon your brother been with you? But now hold your peace, my sister. He is your brother. Don’t take this thing to heart.” So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom’s house.

Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad; for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.

Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”

and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”

Of the children of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, their heads were two hundred; and all their brothers were at their command.

May Yahweh give you discretion and understanding, and put you in charge of Israel; that so you may keep the law of Yahweh your God.

God said to Solomon, “Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked riches, wealth, honor, or the life of those who hate you, nor yet have you asked for long life; but have asked for wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge my people, over whom I have made you king,

and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”

He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as did Ahab’s house, for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

he who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;

If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.

I will meditate on your precepts, and consider your ways.

Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.

those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.

He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.

A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.

The desire of the righteous is only good. The expectation of the wicked is wrath.

The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.

He who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies.

The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

A false witness will perish. A man who listens speaks to eternity.

The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.

Debate your case with your neighbor, and don’t betray the confidence of another,

Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

As for both these kings, their hearts will be to do mischief, and they will speak lies at one table; but it won’t prosper, for the end will still be at the appointed time.

Saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;

Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed?

But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.

Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;

and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.

He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness even until now.

But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.