Bible Verses about โsegregationโ
The Bible contains 21 verses about segregation across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
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
โNow 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.โ
โHe 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,โ
โFor, "Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved."โ
โwhere there can't be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.โ
โNow I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.โ
โFor there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.โ
โKnowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.โ
โyet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.โ
โthat they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.โ
โBut when I saw that they didn't walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, "If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?โ
โThese are they who cause divisions, and are sensual, not having the Spirit.โ
โand their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.โ
โI contended with them, and cursed them, and struck certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, [saying], "You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.โ
โDidn't Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.โ
โShall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?"โ
โ"We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,โ
โIn those days also saw I the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab:โ
โOne of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.โ
โRemember them, my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.โ
โThus I cleansed them from all foreigners, and appointed duties for the priests and for the Levites, everyone in his work;โ
