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The Ninth Commandment: Statutes and Precepts (6)
Deuteronomy 25.13-16
13 “You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a heavy and a light. 14 You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small. 15 You shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure, that your days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD your God is giving you. 16 For all who do such things, all who behave unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD your God.”
We are not to practice double standards. We must treat all people alike. The situation envisioned and proscribed here probably involves a merchant seeking to bilk a richer customer with an unjust scale or standard of some kind. Rather like the federal government does with a graduated tax index.
Fullness and fairness in all transactions: this is what truth requires and what we must practice at all times. To do otherwise is to vaunt ourselves above God, to treat others in a way He does not, and, thus, to become abominable in His sight.
T. M. Moore
The Law of God is the soil which, fertilized by the rest of God’s Word and watered by His Spirit, brings forth the fruit of Christian life. If you’d like to understand this process better, and how to make best use of the Law in your walk with and work for the Lord, order the book, The Ground for Christian Ethics, from our online store.
Except as indicated, Scripture taken from the New King James Version. © Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.