Daniel 5:27
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
27 tekel: you have been weighed on the scales and found wanting;(A)
Read full chapter
Job 31:6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
6 let me be weighed in a just balance,
and let God know my integrity!—(A)
1 Corinthians 3:13
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
13 the work of each builder will become visible, for the day[a] will disclose it, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each has done.(A)
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 3.13 Or the Day
Psalm 62:9
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
9 Those of low estate are but a breath;
those of high estate are a delusion;
in the balances they go up;
they are together lighter than a breath.(A)
Ezekiel 22:18-20
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
18 Mortal, the house of Israel has become dross to me; all of them, silver,[a] bronze, tin, iron, and lead. In the smelter they have become dross.(A) 19 Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have all become dross, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. 20 As one gathers silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin into a smelter, to blow the fire upon them in order to melt them, so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will put you in and melt you.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 22.18 Transposed from the end of the verse
Jeremiah 6:30
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
30 They are called “rejected silver,”
for the Lord has rejected them.
Matthew 22:11-12
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
11 “But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing a wedding robe,(A) 12 and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding robe?’ And he was speechless.(B)
Read full chapterNew Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.