Bible Verses About Weight

Divers weights are an abomination unto the Lord; and a false balance is not good.

A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.

A just weight and balance are the Lord’s: all the weights of the bag are his work.

Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord.

Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.

And the second came, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained five pounds.

Then came the first, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained ten pounds.

Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.

I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.

By number and by weight of every one: and all the weight was written at that time.

But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.

Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

(And they said unto him, Lord, he hath ten pounds.)

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.

But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.

Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the Lord shall be made fat.

But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.

Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.

Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.

But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?

Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.

All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.

Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.

Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.

Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.

The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want.

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.

Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.

And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the Lord.