What Does the Bible Say About Weight?

Matthew 6:25-34 ESV / 44 helpful votes

“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ...

Hebrews 12:1 ESV / 42 helpful votes

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 14 helpful votes

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Proverbs 31:30 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

2 Corinthians 4:17 ESV / 12 helpful votes

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

1 Timothy 6:9 ESV / 11 helpful votes

But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

Matthew 23:23 ESV / 11 helpful votes

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 9 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Proverbs 27:3 ESV / 9 helpful votes

A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool's provocation is heavier than both.

Revelation 22:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes

No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him.

2 Corinthians 10:9-10 ESV / 8 helpful votes

I do not want to appear to be frightening you with my letters. For they say, “His letters are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.”

1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ. Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you. But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head, but every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven. ...

1 Corinthians 1:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.

Daniel 5:25 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And this is the writing that was inscribed: Mene, Mene, Tekel, and Parsin.

Ecclesiastes 1:1-18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun? A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises. ...

Genesis 32:22-28 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. He took them and sent them across the stream, and everything else that he had. And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched his hip socket, and Jacob's hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. Then he said, “Let me go, for the day has broken.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.” ...

Revelation 21:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.

John 3:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

John 14:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Matthew 11:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Revelation 13:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads. And the beast that I saw was like a leopard; its feet were like a bear's, and its mouth was like a lion's mouth. And to it the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority. One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled as they followed the beast. And they worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?” And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months. ...

John 18:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.”

Genesis 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

23 Bible Verses about Weight

Matthew 6:25-34 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Hebrews 12:1 ESV / 42 helpful votes

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:30 ESV / 14 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 4:17 ESV / 12 helpful votes

1 Timothy 6:9 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Matthew 23:23 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Romans 6:23 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Proverbs 27:3 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Revelation 22:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 10:9-10 ESV / 8 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 7 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 1:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Daniel 5:25 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 1:1-18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Genesis 32:22-28 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Revelation 21:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

John 3:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 11:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Revelation 13:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 18:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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23 Bible Verses about Weight

Matthew 6:25-34 ESV / 44 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 12:1 ESV / 42 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 31:30 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 4:17 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 6:9 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 23:23 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 6:23 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 27:3 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 22:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 1:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel 5:25 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ecclesiastes 1:1-18 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 32:22-28 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Matthew 6:25-34 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Hebrews 12:1 ESV / 42 helpful votes

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:30 ESV / 14 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 4:17 ESV / 12 helpful votes

1 Timothy 6:9 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Matthew 23:23 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Romans 6:23 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Proverbs 27:3 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Revelation 22:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 10:9-10 ESV / 8 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 7 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 1:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Daniel 5:25 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 1:1-18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Genesis 32:22-28 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Revelation 21:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

John 3:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 11:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Revelation 13:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 18:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes