35 Bible Verses about Perspective

Am I making use of merely worldly illustrations? Does not the Law speak in the same tone?

They are the world's children, and so their language is that of the world, and the world listens to them. We are God's children.

And do not follow the customs of the present age, but be transformed by the entire renewal of your minds, so that you may learn by experience what God's will is--that will which is good and beautiful and perfect.

We are; for, unlike most teachers, we are not fraudulent hucksters of God's Message; but with transparent motives, as commissioned by God, in God's presence and in communion with Christ, so we speak.

You are therefore no longer mere foreigners or persons excluded from civil rights. On the contrary you share citizenship with God's people and are members of His family.

He who comes from above is above all. He whose origin is from the earth is not only himself from the earth, his teaching also is from the earth. He who comes from Heaven is above all.

For God pays no attention to this world's distinctions.

Then Peter began to speak. "I clearly see," he said, "that God makes no distinctions between one man and another;

Therefore for the future we know no one simply as a man. Even if we have known Christ as a man, yet now we do so no longer.

Give your minds to the things that are above, not to the things that are on the earth.

In loud voices they were exclaiming, "It is to our God who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb, that we owe our salvation!"

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

The man who is beginning to know God listens to us, but he who is not a child of God does not listen to us. By this test we can distinguish the Spirit of truth from the spirit of error.

For consider, brethren, God's call to you. Not many who are wise with merely human wisdom, not many of position and influence, not many of noble birth have been called.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own property. But because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world--for that reason the world hates you.

"You," He continued, "are from below, I am from above: you are of this present world, I am not of this present world.

Through faith we understand that the worlds came into being, and still exist, at the command of God, so that what is seen does not owe its existence to that which is visible.

I have strength for anything through Him who gives me power.

For it is written, "Rejoice, thou barren woman that bearest not, break forth into a joyful cry, thou that dost not travail with child. For the desolate woman has many children--more indeed than she who has the husband."

It is not to angels that God has assigned the sovereignty of that coming world, of which we speak.

I have given them Thy Message, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will return and take you to be with me, that where I am you also may be.

And as Jesus grew older He gained in both wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.

What soldier ever serves at his own cost? Who plants a vineyard and yet does not eat any of the grapes? Or who tends a herd of cattle and yet does not taste their milk?

For in the Law of Moses it is written, "Thou shalt not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain."

Dear children, the last hour has come; and as you once heard that there was to be an anti-Christ, so even now many anti-Christs have appeared. By this we may know that the last hour has come.

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

But if our unrighteousness sets God's righteousness in a clearer light, what shall we say? (Is God unrighteous--I speak in our everyday language-- when He inflicts punishment?

As for you, dear children, you are God's children, and have successfully resisted them; for greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.

"And when praying, you must not be like the hypocrites. They are fond of standing and praying in the synagogues or at the corners of the wider streets, in order that men may see them. I solemnly tell you that they already have their reward.

"Glory be to God in the highest Heavens, And on earth peace among men who please Him!"

"Alas for thee, Chorazin!" He cried. "Alas for thee, Bethsaida! For had the mighty works been done in Tyre and Sidon which have been done in both of you, they would long ere now have repented, covered with sackcloth and ashes.

And the child grew and became strong and full of wisdom, and the favour of God rested upon Him.

For I must tell you, brethren, that the Good News which was proclaimed by me is not such as man approves of.