47 Bible Verses about weight
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But you shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shall you have: that your days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
Diverse weights, and diverse measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
A just weight and balance are the LORD's: all the weights in the bag are his work.
Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay:
You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a great and a small.
All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weighs the spirits.
A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
And your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shall you eat it.
And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be weighed down with carousing, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
His offering was one silver charger, the weight of which was a 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:
And he said, Woe unto you also, you lawyers! for you load men with burdens hard to be borne, and you yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceedingly great.
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast her into the midst of the basket; and he cast the cover of lead upon its mouth.
Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall you have: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
And when he cut the hair of his head, (for it was at every year's end that he cut it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he cut it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight.
He binds up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not torn under them.
It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
Talk no more so very proudly; let not arrogance come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,
The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, or weight, or quantity.
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and measured out heaven with the span, and known the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
And I signed the deed, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.
The way of the just is uprightness: you, most upright, do smooth the path of the just.
And he took their king's crown from off his head, the weight of which was a talent of gold with the precious stones: and it was set on David's head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city in great abundance.
For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
And when I have broken the supply of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.
So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
And there came also Nicodemus, who at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pound weight.
Topics on Weight
Just Weights
Proverbs 11:1A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
Weights And Measures, Distances
Genesis 21:15-16And the water was used up in the skin, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
Weights And Measures, Dry
2 Kings 6:25And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
Weights And Measures, Laws
Leviticus 19:35-36You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, or weight, or quantity.
Weights And Measures, Linear
Jeremiah 52:21And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits; and bands of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.
Weights And Measures, Liquid
Leviticus 14:10And on the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, and one log of oil.
Weights Of Gold
Genesis 24:22And it came to pass, as the camels had finished drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;
Weights Of Other Things
Exodus 30:24And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive oil a hin:
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