Bible Verses about “weight”
The Bible contains 17 verses about weight across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“But seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.”
“"No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both God and Mammon.”
“Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.”
“See the birds of the sky, that they don't sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you of much more value than they?”
“"Therefore don't be anxious, saying, 'What will we eat?', 'What will we drink?' or, 'With what will we be clothed?'”
“Therefore don't be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day's own evil is sufficient.”
“Therefore, I tell you, don't be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn't life more than food, and the body more than clothing?”
“For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.”
“Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin,”
“yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these.”
“But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won't he much more clothe you, you of little faith?”
“"Which of you, by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?”
“Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,”
“But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.”
“"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.”
“For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;”
“A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool's provocation is heavier than both.”