Encontrados 25 resultados para: scales

  • of being accurate over scales and weights, of making small and large profits, (Ecclesiasticus 42, 4)

  • Who was it measured the water of the sea in the hollow of his hand and calculated the heavens to the nearest inch, gauged the dust of the earth to the nearest bushel, weighed the mountains in scales, the hills in a balance? (Isaiah 40, 12)

  • See, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, they count as a grain of dust on the scales. See, coasts and islands weigh no more than fine powder. (Isaiah 40, 15)

  • They lavish gold from their purses and weigh out silver on the scales. They engage a goldsmith to make a god, then bow low and actually adore! (Isaiah 46, 6)

  • I drew up the deeds and sealed it, called in witnesses and weighed out the money on the scales. (Jeremiah 32, 10)

  • 'Son of man, take a sharp sword, use it like a barber's razor and run it over your head and beard. Then take scales and divide the hair you have cut off. (Ezekiel 5, 1)

  • I shall put hooks through your jaws, make your Nile fish stick to your scales, and pull you out of your Niles with all your Nile fish sticking to your scales. (Ezekiel 29, 4)

  • Have fair scales, a fair ephah, a fair bat. (Ezekiel 45, 10)

  • Merchants use fraudulent scales. To defraud is his delight. (Hosea 12, 8)

  • you who say, 'When will New Moon be over so that we can sell our corn, and Sabbath, so that we can market our wheat? Then, we can make the bushel-measure smaller and the shekel-weight bigger, by fraudulently tampering with the scales. (Amos 8, 5)

  • Can I connive at rigged scales and at the bag of fraudulent weights? (Micah 6, 11)

  • It was as though scales fell away from his eyes and immediately he was able to see again. So he got up and was baptised, (Acts 9, 18)


Como distinguir uma tentação de um pecado e como estar certo de que não se pecou? – perguntou um penitente. Padre Pio sorriu e respondeu: “Como se distingue um burro de um homem? O burro tem de ser conduzido; o homem conduz a si mesmo!” São Padre Pio de Pietrelcina