35 Bible Verses about Perspective

Am I, in all this, speaking only from the human standpoint? Does not the Law also say the same?

Those men belong to the world; and therefore they speak as the world speaks, and the world listens to them.

Do not conform to the fashion of this world; but be transformed by the complete change that has come over your minds, so that you may discern what God's will is--all that is good, acceptable, and perfect.

Unlike many people, we are not in the habit of making profit out of God's Message; but in all sincerity, and bearing God's commission, we speak before him in union with Christ.

It follows, then, that you are no longer strangers and aliens, but are fellow-citizens with Christ's People and members of God's Household.

He who comes from above is above all others; but a child of earth is earthly, and his teaching is earthly, too. He who comes from Heaven is above all others.

Since God shows no partiality.

Then Peter began. "I see, beyond all doubt," he said, "that 'God does not show partiality,'

For ourselves, then, from this time forward, we refuse to regard any one from the world's standpoint. Even if we once thought of Christ from the standpoint of the world, yet now we do so no longer.

Fix your thoughts upon the things that are above, not upon those that are on earth.

And they are crying in a loud voice-- ' Salvation be ascribed to our God who is seated on his throne and to the Lamb.'

They do not belong to the world, even as I do not belong to the world.

We come from God. He who knows God listens to us; the man who does not come from God does not listen to us. By that we may know the true inspiration from the false.

Look at the facts of your Call, Brothers. There are not many among you who are wise, as men reckon wisdom, not many who are influential, not many who are high-born;

If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world--that is why the world hates you.

"You," added Jesus, "are from below, I am from above; you are of this present world, I am not;

Faith enables us to perceive that the universe was created at the bidding of God--so that we know that what we see was not made out of visible things.

I can do everything in the strength of him who makes me strong!

For Scripture says--'Rejoice, thou barren one, who dost never bear, Break into shouts, thou who art never in labor, For many are the children of her who is desolate--aye, more than of her who has a husband.'

God has not given to angels the control of that Future World of which we are speaking!

I have given them thy Message; and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world, even as I do not belong to the world.

And, since I go and prepare a place for you, I shall return and take you to be with me, so that you may be where I am;

And Jesus grew in wisdom as he grew in years, and 'gained the blessing of God and men.'

Does any one ever serve as a soldier at his own expense? Does any one plant a vineyard and not eat its produce? Or does any one look after a herd and not drink the milk?

For in the Law of Moses it is said-'Thou shalt not muzzle a bullock while it is treading out the grain.' Is it the bullocks that God is thinking of?

My Children, these are the last days. You were told that an Anti-Christ was coming; and many Anti-Christ's have already arisen. By that we know that these are the last days.

On the first day of the week, early in the morning, while it was still dark, Mary of Magdala went to the tomb, and saw that the stone had been removed.

But what if our wrong-doing makes God's righteousness all the clearer? Will God be wrong in inflicting punishment? (I can but speak as a man.) Heaven forbid!

You, my Children, come from God, and you have successfully resisted such men as these, because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

And, when you pray, you are not to behave as hypocrites do. They like to pray standing in the Synagogues and at the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. There, I tell you, is their reward!

"Glory to God on high, And on earth peace among men in whom he finds pleasure."

"Alas for you, Chorazin! Alas for you, Bethsaida! For, if the miracles which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

The child grew and became strong and wise, and the blessing of God was upon him.

I would remind you, Brothers, that the Good News which I told is no mere human invention.