Easton's Bible Dictionary Proportion of faith (Romans 12:6). Paul says here that each one was to exercise his gift of prophecy, i.e., of teaching, "according to the proportion of faith." The meaning is, that the utterances of the "prophet" were not to fluctuate according to his own impulses or independent thoughts, but were to be adjusted to the truth revealed to him as a beliver, i.e., were to be in accordance with it. In post-Reformation times this phrase was used as meaning that all Scripture was to be interpreted with reference to all other Scripture, i.e., that no words or expressions were to be isolated or interpreted in a way contrary to its general teaching. This was also called the "analogy of faith." Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The relation or adaptation of one portion to another, or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative relation; ratio; as, the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body. 2. (n.) Harmonic relation between parts, or between different things of the same kind; symmetrical arrangement or adjustment; symmetry; as, to be out of proportion. 3. (n.) The portion one receives when a whole is distributed by a rule or principle; equal or proper share; lot. 4. (n.) A part considered comparatively; a share. 5. (n.) The equality or similarity of ratios, especially of geometrical ratios; or a relation among quantities such that the quotient of the first divided by the second is equal to that of the third divided by the fourth; -- called also geometrical proportion, in distinction from arithmetical proportion, or that in which the difference of the first and second is equal to the difference of the third and fourth. 6. (n.) The rule of three, in arithmetic, in which the three given terms, together with the one sought, are proportional. 7. (v.) To adjust in a suitable proportion, as one thing or one part to another; as, to proportion the size of a building to its height; to proportion our expenditures to our income. 8. (v.) To form with symmetry or suitableness, as the parts of the body. 9. (v.) To divide into equal or just shares; to apportion. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia PROPORTION pro-por'-shun: Occurs once in the sense of "space" as the translation of ma`-ar, "void or open space" (1 Kings 7:36 the King James Version margin "Hebrew `nakedness,' " the Revised Version (British and American) "space"); once in the obsolete sense of "form" as the translation of `erekh, "array," or "row" (Job 41:12, the Revised Version (British and American) "frame"); and once in the sense of "measure" as the translation of analogia, "proportion" "equality" (Romans 12:6, "the proportion of faith," the Revised Version (British and American) "the proportion of our faith"). "Proportionally" occurs in The Wisdom of Solomon 13:5, analogos, the Revised Version (British and American) "in like proportion," margin "correspondently."

Multi-Version Concordance Proportion (15 Occurrences) Acts 11:29 So the disciples decided to send relief, every one in proportion to his means, to the brethren living in Judaea. (WEY NAS) Romans 12:6 Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, if prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith; (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV) 2 Corinthians 8:11 And now complete the doing also, in order that, just as there was then the eagerness in desiring, there may now be the accomplishment in proportion to your means. (WEY) Exodus 30:32 on flesh of man it is not poured, and with its proper proportion ye make none like it; it 'is' holy; it is holy to you; (YLT NAS) Exodus 30:37 And the incense that thou shalt make, ye shall not make for yourselves according to the proportions of it; it shall be unto thee holy to Jehovah. (Root in DBY YLT NAS) Leviticus 25:16 If the number of years is great, the price will be increased, and if the number of years is small, the price will be less, for it is the produce of a certain number of years which the man is giving you. (See NAS) Leviticus 25:51 If there are yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for. (See NAS) Leviticus 25:52 If there remain but a few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according to his years of service he shall give back the price of his redemption. (See NAS) Numbers 35:8 And these towns are to be given out of the heritage of the children of Israel, taking the greater number from those who have much, and a smaller number from those who have little: everyone, in the measure of his heritage, is to give of his property to the Levites. (See NAS RSV NIV) Deuteronomy 16:10 You shall keep the feast of weeks to Yahweh your God with a tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which you shall give, according as Yahweh your God blesses you: (See NIV) Deuteronomy 16:17 every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God which he has given you. (See NIV) Deuteronomy 25:2 and it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number. (See RSV) Joshua 18:4 Provide you three men for a tribe; that I may send them, and they shall rise and go through the land, and describe it according to the proportion of their inheritance, and they shall come to me. (DBY) 1 Kings 7:36 For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about. (KJV WBS) Job 41:12 I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion. (KJV WBS)