25 Bible Verses about equality
Most Relevant Verses
Though the divine nature was his from the beginning, yet he did not look upon equality with God as above all things to be clung to,
He made all races of the earth's surface--fixing a time for their rise and fall, and the limits of their settlements--
The Divine Righteousness which is bestowed, through faith in Jesus Christ, upon all, without distinction, who believe in him. For all have sinned, and all fall short of God's glorious ideal, But, in his loving-kindness, are being freely pronounced righteous through the deliverance found in Christ Jesus.
And masters, treat your slaves in the same spirit. Give up threatening them; for you know that he who is both their Master and yours is in Heaven, and that before him there is no distinction of rank.
And since you call upon him as 'Father,' who judges every one impartially by what he has done, let reverence be the spirit of your lives during the time of your stay upon earth.
Then Peter began. "I see, beyond all doubt," he said, "that 'God does not show partiality,'
All distinctions between Jew and Greek, slave and freeman, male and female, have vanished; for in union with Christ Jesus you are all one.
As to secure that there should be no disunion in the body, but that the parts should show the same care for one another.
Suppose a man should enter your Synagogue, with gold rings and in grand clothes, and suppose a poor man should come in also, in shabby clothes, And you are deferential to the man who is wearing grand clothes, and say--"There is a good seat for you here," but to the poor man--"You must stand; or sit down there by my footstool," Is not that to make distinctions among yourselves, and show yourselves prejudiced judges?
But, if you worship rank, you commit a sin, and stand convicted by that same law of being offenders against it.
I charge you solemnly, before God and Christ Jesus and the Chosen Angels, to carry out these directions, unswayed by prejudice, never acting with partiality.
My Brothers, are you really trying to combine faith in Jesus Christ, our glorified Lord, with the worship of rank?
All that is mine is thine, and all that is thine is mine-- and I am honored in them.
In truth I tell you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor yet a messenger than the man who sends him.
whose will is that every one should be saved, and attain to a full knowledge of the Truth.
"You are doubtless aware that it is forbidden for a Jew to be intimate with a foreigner, or even to enter his house; and yet God has shown me that I ought not to call any man 'defiled' or 'unclean.'
From Thematic Bible
Man's » Equality
But do not allow yourselves to be called 'Rabbi,' for you have only one Father, the heavenly Father.
For no distinction is made between the Jew and the Greek, for all have the same Lord, and he is bountiful to all who invoke him.
"You are doubtless aware that it is forbidden for a Jew to be intimate with a foreigner, or even to enter his house; and yet God has shown me that I ought not to call any man 'defiled' or 'unclean.'
All distinctions between Jew and Greek, slave and freeman, male and female, have vanished; for in union with Christ Jesus you are all one.
Topics on Equality
Equality In Payment
Matthew 20:12'These last,' they said, 'have done only one hour's work, and yet you have put them on the same footing with us, who have borne the brunt of the day's work, and the heat.'
Equality In Salvation
Romans 3:29-30Or can it be that God is the God only of the Jews? Is not he also the God of the Gentiles?
Equality Of Punishment
Matthew 5:38You have heard that it was said--'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.'
Equality With God
John 5:18This made the Jews all the more eager to kill him, because not only was he doing away with the Sabbath, but he actually called God his own Father--putting himself on an equality with God.
Racial Equality
Acts 17:26He made all races of the earth's surface--fixing a time for their rise and fall, and the limits of their settlements--