Bible Verses about โprejudiceโ
The Bible contains 43 verses about prejudice across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โAnd be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.โ
โThere 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.โ
โ"Don't judge, so that you won't be judged.โ
โFor with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.โ
โWhy do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?โ
โYou hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.โ
โOr how will you tell your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye;' and behold, the beam is in your own eye?โ
โA new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.โ
โBy this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."โ
โDon't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."โ
โFor I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.โ
โAnd if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,โ
โand one of you tells them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled;" and yet you didn't give them the things the body needs, what good is it?โ
โEven so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.โ
โWhat good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?โ
โYou masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.โ
โFor as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.โ
โYou see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith.โ
โwhere there can't be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.โ
โYou believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.โ
โYes, a man will say, "You have faith, and I have works." Show me your faith without works, and I by my works will show you my faith.โ
โFor whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.โ
โBut do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?โ
โMy brothers, don't hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.โ
โFor if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in;โ
โhaven't you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?โ
โand the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness;" and he was called the friend of God.โ
โand you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing, and say, "Sit here in a good place;" and you tell the poor man, "Stand there," or "Sit by my footstool;"โ
โPeter opened his mouth and said, "Truly I perceive that God doesn't show favoritism;โ
โWasn't Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?โ
โYou see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected;โ
โBut if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.โ
โListen, my beloved brothers. Didn't God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?โ
โHowever, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.โ
โIn the same way, wasn't Rahab the prostitute also justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way?โ
โThe second is like this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."โ
โBut you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?โ
โDon't they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?โ
โFor judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.โ
โSo speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.โ
โFor he who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not commit murder." Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.โ
โOne of them, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons."โ
โThis testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,โ
