Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
The bag must not hold two different weights, a great and a small, to be swapped so that a large weight is used when buying and a small weight when selling, weighing the same goods differently from one transaction to another for dishonest gain. It is part of the command to have a perfect and just weight and measure. That means no unrighteousness in judgment, in yardstick or meteyard, in weight, or in measure, but only just balances, just weights, and a just ephah and a just hin. The requirement is commanded by the Lord who brought Israel out of the land of Egypt, and His statutes and judgments must be observed and done.
Fairness in weight honors God. Divers and unjust weights, false balances, and deceitful weights are unrighteous and an abomination to Him. The verse requires strict honesty and fairness in every dealing and in all business, especially in buying and selling property including real estate. It is kept by doing to others as one would be done by and by keeping conscience pure in every transaction.
In buying and selling it condemns keeping dishonest standards to take advantage of occasions and circumstances to make money. That includes stealing, dealing falsely, lying to one another, defrauding a neighbor, misrepresenting property to make a sale, hiding unfavorable facts, exaggerating benefits, and making uncertain promises that value will rise or double. It also condemns withholding a hired worker's wages and keeping back by fraud the hard-earned money of laborers. It condemns taking advantage of a neighbor, exploiting a neighbor's distress to add to one's own land or fill one's own pocket, and using weakness or incompetency to fill one's own purse.
Obedience means accepting only a fair equivalent for what is sold, frankly telling defects in articles sold even when it works against one's own profit, using unneeded money to relieve the necessities of a less fortunate brother, and aiming to help and bless rather than to gain selfish advantage. The standard applies to dealings among fellow believers, where injustice toward the weak and weary shows failure to show Christ's spirit. Those who continue in such practices must cut loose from them before they can be considered healthful branches of the church.
Those who serve God buy and sell with the realization that the eye of God is upon them. They are in every transaction just what they want others to think they are, guided by principle with no scheming and nothing to conceal or gloss over, trustworthy in word and a blessing to all connected with them. So even under criticism and testing unbending integrity shines like pure gold. For the believing physician the command makes the commandments the standard, so that his work and his weights and measures pass in review before God. He must refuse every tradition, custom, or practice God condemns, work as God's servant in Christ's stead as His representative, and measure his daily life by the principles of the law.
The bag must not hold two different weights, a great and a small, to be swapped so that a large weight is used when buying and a small weight when selling, weighing the same goods differently from one transaction to another for dishonest gain. It is part of the command to have a perfect and just weight and measure. That means no unrighteousness in judgment, in yardstick or meteyard, in weight, or in measure, but only just balances, just weights, and a just ephah and a just hin. The requirement is commanded by the Lord who brought Israel out of the land of Egypt, and His statutes and judgments must be observed and done.
Fairness in weight honors God. Divers and unjust weights, false balances, and deceitful weights are unrighteous and an abomination to Him. The verse requires strict honesty and fairness in every dealing and in all business, especially in buying and selling property including real estate. It is kept by doing to others as one would be done by and by keeping conscience pure in every transaction.
In buying and selling it condemns keeping dishonest standards to take advantage of occasions and circumstances to make money. That includes stealing, dealing falsely, lying to one another, defrauding a neighbor, misrepresenting property to make a sale, hiding unfavorable facts, exaggerating benefits, and making uncertain promises that value will rise or double. It also condemns withholding a hired worker's wages and keeping back by fraud the hard-earned money of laborers. It condemns taking advantage of a neighbor, exploiting a neighbor's distress to add to one's own land or fill one's own pocket, and using weakness or incompetency to fill one's own purse.
Obedience means accepting only a fair equivalent for what is sold, frankly telling defects in articles sold even when it works against one's own profit, using unneeded money to relieve the necessities of a less fortunate brother, and aiming to help and bless rather than to gain selfish advantage. The standard applies to dealings among fellow believers, where injustice toward the weak and weary shows failure to show Christ's spirit. Those who continue in such practices must cut loose from them before they can be considered healthful branches of the church.
Those who serve God buy and sell with the realization that the eye of God is upon them. They are in every transaction just what they want others to think they are, guided by principle with no scheming and nothing to conceal or gloss over, trustworthy in word and a blessing to all connected with them. So even under criticism and testing unbending integrity shines like pure gold. For the believing physician the command makes the commandments the standard, so that his work and his weights and measures pass in review before God. He must refuse every tradition, custom, or practice God condemns, work as God's servant in Christ's stead as His representative, and measure his daily life by the principles of the law.