34 Bible Verses about balance
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The LORD hates false scales, but he delights in accurate weights.
You are to maintain just balances and reliable standards for weights, dry volumes, and liquid volumes. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
TEKEL: You've been weighed on the scales and you don't measure up.
"Who has measured the waters of the sea in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens by the width of his hand? Who has enclosed the dust of the earth in a measuring bowl, or weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?
"Now as for the merchant, deceitful balances remain in his hand, and he loves to defraud.
"Look! The nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are reckoned as dust on the scales. Look! He even lifts up the islands like powder!
Do you understand his wondrous work of balancing the clouds, the one whose knowledge is perfect,
When the lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, "Go!" I looked, and there was a black horse! Its rider held a scale in his hand.
let my righteousness be weighed in honest scales, and God will make known my integrity.
You'll cling to life, being fearful by both night and day, with no assurance of survival.
I signed the deed and sealed it. I called in witnesses and used scales to weigh out the silver.
Don't continue to talk proudly, and don't speak arrogantly, for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
Will I tolerate those who maintain deceptive standards and who use deceitful weights in their business?
and who are saying, "When will the New Moon fade so we may sell grain, and the Sabbath conclude so we may market winnowed wheat? shortchanging the measure, raising the price, falsifying the scales by treachery,
Human beings are a mere vapor, while people in high positions are not what they appear. When they are placed on the scales, they weigh nothing; even when weighed together, they are less than nothing.
"Now as for you, Son of Man, you are to go find a sharp sword and use it like a barber's razor. You are to cut your hair and beard. Then you are to take a weighing scale and divide your shaved hair into three parts.
because while the Law was given through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus the Messiah.
then let him account for the years for which it was sold, return the excess to the person to whom it was sold, and then return to his property.
when he set a boundary for the sea so the waters would not exceed his limits, when he marked out the foundations of the earth.
Those who pour out gold in a purse, weigh silver in a balance, hire a goldsmith in order to make a god, and then they bow down and even worship it.
It cannot be compared to gold from Ophir, with precious onyx, or with sapphire.
"If only my grief could be weighed; or my calamity piled together on a balance scale!
Topics on Balance
Balance In Life
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8There is a season for everything, and a time for every event under heaven:
Balances, Dishonest Use
Leviticus 19:35-36"You are not to act unjustly in deciding a case or when measuring weight and quantity.
Balances, For Business
Proverbs 16:11Honest scales and balances are from the LORD; he made all the weights in the bag.
Balances, Metaphorical Use
Job 6:2"If only my grief could be weighed; or my calamity piled together on a balance scale!
Divine Balances
Job 31:6let my righteousness be weighed in honest scales, and God will make known my integrity.
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- Balances, Metaphorical Use
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- Buying and selling
- Cheating