47 Bible Verses about weight

You shall have a full and just weight; you shall have a full and just measure, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you.

‘TEKĒL’—you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.

For each one will bear his own load.

Differing weights and differing measures,
Both of them are abominable to the Lord.

A just balance and scales belong to the Lord;
All the weights of the bag are His concern.

Moreover, He said to me, “Son of man, behold, I am going to break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and drink water by measure and in horror,

“When He imparted weight to the wind
And meted out the waters by measure,

“You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a large and a small.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own sight,
But the Lord weighs the motives.

A false balance is an abomination to the Lord,
But a just weight is His delight.

Your food which you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; you shall eat it from time to time.

“Be on guard, so that your hearts will not be weighted down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of life, and that day will not come on you suddenly like a trap;

Let Him weigh me with accurate scales,
And let God know my integrity.

his offering was one silver dish whose weight was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

But He said, “Woe to you lawyers as well! For you weigh men down with burdens hard to bear, while you yourselves will not even touch the burdens with one of your fingers.

And huge hailstones, about one hundred pounds each, *came down from heaven upon men; and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, because its plague *was extremely severe.

For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison,

Then he said, “This is Wickedness!” And he threw her down into the middle of the ephah and cast the lead weight on its opening.

You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin; I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt.

When he cut the hair of his head (and it was at the end of every year that he cut it, for it was heavy on him so he cut it), he weighed the hair of his head at 200 shekels by the king’s weight.

“He wraps up the waters in His clouds,
And the cloud does not burst under them.

“Pure gold cannot be given in exchange for it,
Nor can silver be weighed as its price.

“Boast no more so very proudly,
Do not let arrogance come out of your mouth;
For the Lord is a God of knowledge,
And with Him actions are weighed.

Now the weight of gold which came in to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold,

The precious sons of Zion,
Weighed against fine gold,
How they are regarded as earthen jars,
The work of a potter’s hands!

‘You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measurement of weight, or capacity.

For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand,
And marked off the heavens by the span,
And calculated the dust of the earth by the measure,
And weighed the mountains in a balance
And the hills in a pair of scales?

Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others pass judgment.

I signed and sealed the deed, and called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales.

The way of the righteous is smooth;
O Upright One, make the path of the righteous level.

Then he took the crown of their king from his head; and its weight was a talent of gold, and in it was a precious stone; and it was placed on David’s head. And he brought out the spoil of the city in great amounts.

They tie up heavy burdens and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are unwilling to move them with so much as a finger.

A stone is heavy and the sand weighty,
But the provocation of a fool is heavier than both of them.

The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold.

“Now this is the inscription that was written out: ‘MENĒ, MENĒ, TEKĒL, UPHARSIN.’

When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will bring back your bread in rationed amounts, so that you will eat and not be satisfied.

So David gave Ornan 600 shekels of gold by weight for the site.

Nicodemus, who had first come to Him by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds weight.