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Balances of deceit <FI>are<Fi> an abomination to Jehovah, And a perfect weight <FI>is<Fi> His delight.

A just beam and balances <FI>are<Fi> Jehovah's, His work <FI>are<Fi> all the stones of the bag.

The masters! that which is righteous and equal to the servants give ye, having known that ye also have a Master in the heavens.

A stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah, Even both of them <FI>are<Fi> an abomination to Jehovah.

An abomination to Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> a stone and a stone, And balances of deceit <FI>are<Fi> not good.

`Ye do not do perversity in judgment, in mete-yard, in weight, or in liquid measure; — read the full passage →

He hath declared to thee, O man, what <FI>is<Fi> good; Yea, what is Jehovah requiring of thee, Except--to do judgment, and love kindness, And lowly to walk with thy God?

righteous balances, righteous weights, a righteous ephah, and a righteous hin ye have; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah your God, who hath brought you out from the land of Egypt;

And roll on as waters doth judgment, And righteousness as a perennial stream.

And the masters! the same things do ye unto them, letting threatening alone, having known that also your Master is in the heavens, and acceptance of persons is not with him.

`Thou hast not in thy bag a stone and a stone, a great and a small. — read the full passage →

Thou dost not turn aside judgment; thou dost not discern faces, nor take a bribe, for the bribe blindeth the eyes of the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. — read the full passage →

Do I reckon <FI>it<Fi> pure with balances of wickedness? And with a bag of deceitful stones?

To do justice <FI>is<Fi> joy to the righteous, But ruin to workers of iniquity.

`Ye do not do perversity in judgment; thou dost not lift up the face of the poor, nor honour the face of the great; in righteousness thou dost judge thy fellow.

My brethren, hold not, in respect of persons, the faith of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, strive <FI>for<Fi> the widow.

Thus said Jehovah: `Keep ye judgment, and do righteousness, For near <FI>is<Fi> My salvation to come, And My righteousness to be revealed.' — read the full passage →

Just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath--ye have.

providing right things, not only before the Lord, but also before men;

My brethren, hold not, in respect of persons, the faith of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

Saying, When doth the new moon pass, And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath, and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use perversely balances of deceit.

Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land, — read the full passage →

Thus said Jehovah: Do ye judgment and righteousness, And deliver the plundered from the hand of the oppressor, And sojourner, orphan, and widow, ye do not oppress nor wrong, And innocent blood ye do not shed in this place.

Thou hast a stone complete and just, thou hast an ephah complete and just, so that they prolong thy days on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee;

and if on the Father ye do call, who without acceptance of persons is judging according to the work of each, in fear the time of your sojourn pass ye,

lo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you--doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered;

and if ye accept persons, sin ye do work, being convicted by the law as transgressors;

and he who is doing unrighteously shall receive what he did unrighteously, and there is no acceptance of persons.

And Peter having opened his mouth, said, `Of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons, — read the full passage →

`All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

`Thus spake Jehovah of Hosts, saying: True judgment judge ye, And kindness and mercy do one with another.

`Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Enough to you--princes of Israel; violence and spoil turn aside, and judgment and righteousness do; lift up your exactions from off My people--an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. — read the full passage →

In usury he doth not give, and increase taketh not, From perversity he turneth back his hand, True judgment he doth between man and man.

a king that is judging truly the poor, His throne for ever is established.

And if God, willing to shew the wrath and to make known His power, did endure, in much long suffering, vessels of wrath fitted for destruction, — read the full passage →

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Because that which is known of God is manifest among them, for God did manifest <FI>it<Fi> to them, — read the full passage →

and it shall be, every one--whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, he shall be saved.

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

The kindnesses of Jehovah! For we have not been consumed, For not ended have His mercies. — read the full passage →

Jehovah is doing righteousness and judgments For all the oppressed. — read the full passage →

Thou dost not turn aside judgment; thou dost not discern faces, nor take a bribe, for the bribe blindeth the eyes of the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

`Then shall the king say to those on his right hand, Come ye, the blessed of my Father, inherit the reign that hath been prepared for you from the foundation of the world; — read the full passage →

`Happy the kind--because they shall find kindness.

For the Lord Jehovah doth nothing, Except He hath revealed His counsel unto His servants the prophets. — read the full passage →

and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: --

so, as much as in me is, I am ready also to you who <FI>are<Fi> in Rome to proclaim good news, — read the full passage →

`I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman; — read the full passage →

`And now I have said <FI>it<Fi> to you before it come to pass, that when it may come to pass, ye may believe;

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me; — read the full passage →

verily I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation. — read the full passage →

take that which is thine, and go; and I will to give to this, the last, also as to thee; — read the full passage →

If, indeed, royal law ye complete, according to the Writing, `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,' --ye do well; — read the full passage →

Therefore, thou art inexcusable, O man--every one who is judging--for in that in which thou dost judge the other, thyself thou dost condemn, for the same things thou dost practise who art judging, — read the full passage →

Rob not the poor because he <FI>is<Fi> poor, And bruise not the afflicted in the gate. — read the full passage →

`Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of thy needy one in his strife;

and a poor man thou dost not honour in his strife.

If, indeed, royal law ye complete, according to the Writing, `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,' --ye do well; — read the full passage →

What, then, shall we say? unrighteousness <FI>is<Fi> with God? let it not be! — read the full passage →

And he said also unto his disciples, `A certain man was rich, who had a steward, and he was accused to him as scattering his goods; — read the full passage →

`And his elder son was in a field, and as, coming, he drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing, — read the full passage →

Then said Jesus unto them, `I will question you something: Is it lawful on the sabbaths to do good, or to do evil? life to save or to kill?' — read the full passage →

and having seen a certain fig-tree on the way, he came to it, and found nothing in it except leaves only, and he saith to it, `No more from thee may fruit be--to the age;' and forthwith the fig-tree withered.

And about the eleventh hour, having gone forth, he found others standing idle, and saith to them, Why here have ye stood all the day idle? — read the full passage →

and many first shall be last, and last first.

and the Pharisees having seen, said to his disciples, `Wherefore with the tax-gatherers and sinners doth your teacher eat?' — read the full passage →

for all these do the nations seek for, for your heavenly Father doth know that ye have need of all these; — read the full passage →

Even from the days of your fathers Ye have turned aside from My statutes, And ye have not taken heed. Turn back unto Me, and I turn back to you, Said Jehovah of Hosts. And ye have said, `In what do we turn back?' — read the full passage →

And I have sprinkled over you clean water, And ye have been clean; From all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, I do cleanse you. — read the full passage →

Say unto them, I live--an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, I delight not in the death of the wicked, But--in the turning of the wicked from his way, And he hath lived, Turn back, turn back, from your evil ways, Yea, why do ye die, O house of Israel?

Is not this the fast that I chose--To loose the bands of wickedness, To shake off the burdens of the yoke, And to send out the oppressed free, And every yoke ye draw off? — read the full passage →

Remember former things of old, For I <FI>am<Fi> Mighty, and there is none else, God--and there is none like Me. — read the full passage →

Woe <FI>to<Fi> those going deep from Jehovah to hide counsel, And whose works have been in darkness. And they say, `Who is seeing us? And who is knowing us?' — read the full passage →

And now, O inhabitant of Jerusalem, and man of Judah, Judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard. — read the full passage →

Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, strive <FI>for<Fi> the widow. — read the full passage →

If <FI>from<Fi> delivering those taken to death, And those slipping to the slaughter--thou keepest back. — read the full passage →

Incline thine ear, and hear words of the wise, And thy heart set to my knowledge, — read the full passage →

O the happiness of a man <FI>who<Fi> hath found wisdom, And of a man <FI>who<Fi> bringeth forth understanding. — read the full passage →

Cast on Jehovah that which He hath given thee, And He doth sustain thee, He doth not suffer for ever the moving of the righteous. — read the full passage →

To the Overseer. --A Psalm of David. O the happiness of him Who is acting wisely unto the poor, In a day of evil doth Jehovah deliver him. — read the full passage →

And Jehovah doth return to me, According to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands, Over-against his eyes. — read the full passage →

My shield <FI>is<Fi> on God, Saviour of the upright in heart! — read the full passage →

`Thou hast not in thy bag a stone and a stone, a great and a small. — read the full passage →

`And now, let, I pray Thee, the power of my Lord be great, as Thou hast spoken, saying: — read the full passage →

`And when a man smiteth any soul of man, he is certainly put to death. — read the full passage →

And Jehovah calleth unto Moses, and speaketh unto him out of the tent of meeting, saying, — read the full passage →

`Happy are those doing His commands that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of the life, and by the gates they may enter into the city; — read the full passage →

who being reviled--was not reviling again, suffering--was not threatening, and was committing himself to Him who is judging righteously, — read the full passage →

this wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, physical, demon-like, — read the full passage →

for He who is saying, `Thou mayest not commit adultery,' said also, `Thou mayest do no murder;' and if thou shalt not commit adultery, and shalt commit murder, thou hast become a transgressor of law; — read the full passage →

My brethren, hold not, in respect of persons, the faith of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

Be not led astray, my brethren beloved; — read the full passage →

for as many as to Christ were baptized did put on Christ; — read the full passage →

for who doth make thee to differ? and what hast thou, that thou didst not receive? and if thou didst also receive, why dost thou glory as not having received?

And I call upon you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that the same thing ye may all say, and there may not be divisions among you, and ye may be perfected in the same mind, and in the same judgment, — read the full passage →

Thou--who art thou that art judging another's domestic? to his own master he doth stand or fall; and he shall be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.

I say, then, Did they stumble that they might fall? let it not be! but by their fall the salvation <FI>is<Fi> to the nations, to arouse them to jealousy;

What, then, shall we say? that nations who are not pursuing righteousness did attain to righteousness, and righteousness that <FI>is<Fi> of faith, — read the full passage →

as also in Hosea He saith, `I will call what <FI>is<Fi> not My people--My people; and her not beloved--Beloved, — read the full passage →