Deuteronomy 25:15
But have a true weight and a true measure: so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
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In Context
14Or in your house different measures, a great and a small.
16For all who do such things, and all whose ways are not upright, are disgusting to the Lord your God.
Cross References
Exodus 20:12Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
Deuteronomy 4:40Then keep his laws and his orders which I give you today, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, and that your lives may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for ever.
Deuteronomy 5:33Go on walking in the way ordered for you by the Lord your God, so that life may be yours and it may be well for you, and your days may be long in the land of your heritage.
Deuteronomy 11:9And that your days may be long in the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers and to their seed after them, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Psalms 34:12\34:11\Come, children, give attention to me; I will be your teacher in the fear of the Lord.
Ephesians 6:3So that all may be well for you, and your life may be long on the earth.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 25:14-19
Amalek to Be Destroyed. ( b. c. 1451.) 13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. 14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small. 15 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. 16 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the Lord thy God. 17 Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when… Read the whole commentary →