Here are 38 Bible verses about measurement from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible (King James Version), sorted from most to least relevant.
Isaiah 40:12 KJV
Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Zechariah 2:1 KJV
I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.
Mark 4:24 KJV
And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given.
Revelation 21:16 KJV
And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
Revelation 11:1 KJV
And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
Ezekiel 4:11 KJV
Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
Zechariah 2:2 KJV
Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.
Ezekiel 41:13 KJV
So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long;
Ezekiel 43:13 KJV
And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar.
Romans 12:3 KJV
For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
2 Corinthians 10:15 KJV
Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men’s labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,
Ezekiel 45:11 KJV
The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
2 Corinthians 10:12 KJV
For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.
Ephesians 4:7 KJV
But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
Proverbs 11:1 KJV
A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
Romans 12:6 KJV
Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;
Revelation 21:17 KJV
And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.
Jeremiah 31:37 KJV
Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.
2 Corinthians 10:13 KJV
But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you.
Matthew 7:2 KJV
For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
Exodus 16:36 KJV
Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
Ezekiel 47:4 KJV
Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters; the waters were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to the loins.
Job 38:5 KJV
Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
Revelation 21:15 KJV
And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
2 Peter 1:8 KJV
For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 3:19 KJV
And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
Job 11:9 KJV
The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Genesis 6:15 KJV
And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
Ezekiel 40:14 KJV
He made also posts of threescore cubits, even unto the post of the court round about the gate.
Job 28:25 KJV
To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
Isaiah 44:13 KJV
The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.
Luke 6:38 KJV
Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
John 3:34 KJV
For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
2 Chronicles 3:3 KJV
Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
Leviticus 19:35 KJV
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
Deuteronomy 25:15 KJV
But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Isaiah 64:9 KJV
Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
Matthew 23:32 KJV
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
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