Bible Verses about โtoleranceโ
The Bible contains 27 verses about tolerance across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โThis is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,โ
โ"Don't judge, so that you won't be judged.โ
โTherefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.โ
โBut sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:โ
โNow accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.โ
โOne man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.โ
โDon't let him who eats despise him who doesn't eat. Don't let him who doesn't eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.โ
โWho are you who judge another's servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.โ
โwith all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;โ
โFinally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,โ
โpreach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.โ
โnot rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing; knowing that to this were you called, that you may inherit a blessing.โ
โFor, "He who would love life, and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.โ
โBut when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her."โ
โLet him turn away from evil, and do good. Let him seek peace, and pursue it.โ
โI command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:โ
โBut as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. Don't even eat with such a person.โ
โPleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.โ
โIf anyone comes to you, and doesn't bring this teaching, don't receive him into your house, and don't welcome him,โ
โfor he who welcomes him participates in his evil works.โ
โHe who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.โ
โHe said to them, "You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn't call any man unholy or unclean.โ
โIf your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, "Let us go and serve other gods," which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;โ
โof the gods of the peoples who are around you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth;โ
โyou shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him:โ
โbut you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.โ
โYou shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought to draw you away from Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.โ
