47 Bible Verses about Being Different

For just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function,

so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

For even as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ.

that is, that I may be encouraged together with you while among you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.

For there must also be factions among you, so that those who are approved may become evident among you.

Now I say, as long as the heir is a child, he does not differ at all from a slave although he is owner of everything,

And there are varieties of ministries, and the same Lord.

I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will hear My voice; and they will become one flock with one shepherd.

Since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, each of us is to exercise them accordingly: if prophecy, according to the proportion of his faith;

There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.

For how then can it be known that I have found favor in Your sight, I and Your people? Is it not by Your going with us, so that we, I and Your people, may be distinguished from all the other people who are upon the face of the earth?”

Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit.

There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is one, and the glory of the earthly is another.

For if one comes and preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted, you bear this beautifully.

There are varieties of effects, but the same God who works all things in all persons.

“At the appointed time he will return and come into the South, but this last time it will not turn out the way it did before.

All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fish.

Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that also to you;

Then the Spirit of the Lord will come upon you mightily, and you shall prophesy with them and be changed into another man.

“Thus he said: ‘The fourth beast will be a fourth kingdom on the earth, which will be different from all the other kingdoms and will devour the whole earth and tread it down and crush it.

Yet even lifeless things, either flute or harp, in producing a sound, if they do not produce a distinction in the tones, how will it be known what is played on the flute or on the harp?

and you pay special attention to the one who is wearing the fine clothes, and say, “You sit here in a good place,” and you say to the poor man, “You stand over there, or sit down by my footstool,”

but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members.

make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord.

Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped,

Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call on Him;

If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.

Now you are Christ’s body, and individually members of it.

For who regards you as superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

But now there are many members, but one body.

“Therefore, come out from their midst and be separate,” says the Lord.
“And do not touch what is unclean;
And I will welcome you.

But this I admit to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect I do serve the God of our fathers, believing everything that is in accordance with the Law and that is written in the Prophets;

For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you.

But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,

If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.

And not be like their fathers,
A stubborn and rebellious generation,
A generation that did not prepare its heart
And whose spirit was not faithful to God.

But it is not this way among you, but whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant;

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

but I could wish to be present with you now and to change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.

It is not this way among you, but whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant,