34 Bible Verses about balance

Honest scales and balances are from the Lord; all the weights in the bag are his handiwork.

The Lord abhors dishonest scales, but an accurate weight is his delight.

You must have honest balances, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt.

As for teqel -- you are weighed on the balances and found to be lacking.

Who has measured out the waters in the hollow of his hand, or carefully measured the sky, or carefully weighed the soil of the earth, or weighed the mountains in a balance, or the hills on scales?

You must use just balances, a just dry measure (an ephah), and a just liquid measure (a bath).

The Lord abhors differing weights, and dishonest scales are wicked.

The businessmen love to cheat; they use dishonest scales.

You must not have in your bag different stone weights, a heavy and a light one.

Look, the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are regarded as dust on the scales. He lifts the coastlands as if they were dust.

Do you know about the balancing of the clouds, that wondrous activity of him who is perfect in knowledge?

Then when the Lamb opened the third seal I heard the third living creature saying, "Come!" So I looked, and here came a black horse! The one who rode it had a balance scale in his hand.

let him weigh me with honest scales; then God will discover my integrity.

Your life will hang in doubt before you; you will be terrified by night and day and will have no certainty of surviving from one day to the next.

I signed the deed of purchase, sealed it, and had some men serve as witnesses to the purchase. I weighed out the silver for him on a scale.

Don't keep speaking so arrogantly, letting proud talk come out of your mouth! For the Lord is a God who knows; he evaluates what people do.

I do not condone the use of rigged scales, or a bag of deceptive weights.

You say, "When will the new moon festival be over, so we can sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, so we can open up the grain bins? We're eager to sell less for a higher price, and to cheat the buyer with rigged scales!

Men are nothing but a mere breath; human beings are unreliable. When they are weighed in the scales, all of them together are lighter than air.

Make the path for your feet level, so that all your ways may be established.

"As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber's razor. Shave off some of the hair from your head and your beard. Then take scales and divide up the hair you cut off.

For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ.

he is to calculate the value of the years it was sold, refund the balance to the man to whom he had sold it, and return to his property.

when he gave the sea his decree that the waters should not pass over his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

So teach us to consider our mortality, so that we might live wisely.

Those who empty out gold from a purse and weigh out silver on the scale hire a metalsmith, who makes it into a god. They then bow down and worship it.

When he made the force of the wind and measured the waters with a gauge.

It cannot be measured out for purchase with the gold of Ophir, with precious onyx or sapphires.

"Oh, if only my grief could be weighed, and my misfortune laid on the scales too!