Bible Verses about “nationalism”
The Bible contains 38 verses about nationalism across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”
“for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn't bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.”
“Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.”
“Give therefore to everyone what you owe: taxes to whom taxes are due; customs to whom customs; respect to whom respect; honor to whom honor.”
“Go, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,”
“Therefore he who resists the authority, withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.”
“For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants of God's service, attending continually on this very thing.”
“For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which is good, and you will have praise from the same,”
“Therefore you need to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience' sake.”
“But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:”
“Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.”
“He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,”
“Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.”
“After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.”
“They said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."”
“The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.”
“They said one to another, "Come, let's make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.”
“Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.”
“Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."”
“Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.”
“So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.”
“It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.”
“For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;”
“The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.”
“So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,”
“Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.”
“"'If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.”
“They cried with a loud voice, saying, "Salvation be to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!"”
“that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.”
“Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to Yahweh for it; for in its peace you shall have peace.”
“For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition,”
“having abolished in the flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace;”
“For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.”
“Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;”
“and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby.”
“and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.' These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel."”
“He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.”
“When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.”