Then a measuring rod like a staff was given to me, and I was told: "Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar, counting those who worship there,

The angel who was talking with me had a measuring rod of gold, to measure the city, its gates and wall.

Indeed, I do not dare to count or compare myself with certain men who are always recommending themselves. But they do not show good sense, because they do continue measuring themselves with one another and comparing themselves with one another.

But as they were leaving, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: "What did you go out into the desert to gaze at? A reed that is tossed to and fro by the wind?

A broken reed He will not break off; a flickering wick He will not put out, until He brings His judgment to victory.

He measured its wall, two hundred and sixteen feet as a man measures, which is the way the angel measured.

But when John's messengers had gone, He began to speak to the crowds about John: "What did you go out into the desert to gaze at? A reed that is tossed to and fro by the wind?

For exactly as you criticize others, you will be criticized, and in accordance with the measure that you give to others, it will be measured back to you.

Practice forgiving others, and you will be forgiven. Practice giving to others, and they will give to you, good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, people will pour into your lap. For the measure you use with others they in turn will use with you."

As measured by the good news the Jews are God's enemies for your sakes, but as measured by God's choice they are His beloved because of their forefathers,

as measured by the glorious good news of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.

People do not light a lamp and put it under a peck-measure but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all that are in the house.

but leave off the court outside the temple; do not measure it, because it has been given over to the heathen, and for forty-two months they will trample the city underfoot.

The city lies in a square, its length the same as its breadth. He measured the city with his rod, and it was one thousand, five hundred miles. Its length, breadth, and height were the same.

Then He put a question to them: "A lamp is not brought to be put under a peck-measure or under a bed, is it? Is it not rather to be put on the lamp-stand?

And He was saying to them: "Take care what you hear. The measure you give will come back to you, and more besides.

No one lights a lamp and puts it in a cellar or under a peck-measure, but he puts it on the lampstand, that the people who come in may enjoy the light.

They will fall by the edge of the sword and will be carried off as captives among all the nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled under the feet of the heathen, until the times of the heathen come to full measure.

For He whom God has sent continues to speak the words of God, for God continues to give Him the Spirit without measure.

I myself, indeed, once thought it my duty to take extreme measures in hostility to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

You look at me and measure me by outward appearances. If anyone is confident in himself that he belongs to Christ, let him have another thought about himself, that just as he belongs to Christ, so do I.

and how surpassingly great is His power for us who believe, measured by His tremendously mighty power

But in accordance with the measure of Christ's gift, His favor has been bestowed upon each one of us.

until we all attain to unity in faith and to perfect knowledge of the Son of God, namely, to a mature manhood and to a perfect measure of Christ's moral stature;

circumcised when I was a week old; a descendant of Israel; a member of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew, a son of Hebrews. Measured by the law, I was a Pharisee;

by the standard set by zeal, I was a persecutor of the church, and measured by the uprightness reached by keeping the law, I was faultless.

in the hope of attaining, in some measure, the resurrection that lifts me out from among the dead.