42 Bible Verses about Perspective

Do I say these things on human authority? Does not the Law say the same?

They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them.

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God's word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,

He who comes from above is above all. He who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speaks in an earthly way. He who comes from heaven is above all.

For God shows no partiality.

So Peter opened his mouth and said: "Truly I understand that God shows no partiality,

From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer.

Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

and crying out with a loud voice, "Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!"

They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

The one who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him.

"Thus you shall say to Zedekiah, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands and with which you are fighting against the king of Babylon and against the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the walls. And I will bring them together into the midst of this city.

We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.

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

He said to them, "You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

For it is written, "Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear; break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than those of the one who has a husband."

Now it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking.

I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.

And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man.

Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock without getting some of the milk?

Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah

Thus says the LORD: "The wealth of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to you and be yours; they shall follow you; they shall come over in chains and bow down to you. They will plead with you, saying: 'Surely God is in you, and there is no other, no god besides him.'"

For it is written in the Law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain." Is it for oxen that God is concerned?

Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour.

Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.

But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.)

Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

"And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

"In those days and in that time, declares the LORD, the people of Israel and the people of Judah shall come together, weeping as they come, and they shall seek the LORD their God.

"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!"

"Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

And the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom. And the favor of God was upon him.

Arise, O LORD, and go to your resting place, you and the ark of your might.

For I would have you know, brothers, that the gospel that was preached by me is not man's gospel.

Thus they were to keep charge of the tent of meeting and the sanctuary, and to attend the sons of Aaron, their brothers, for the service of the house of the LORD.