35 Bible Verses about Perspective
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They are children of the world; that is why they speak as the world directs, and the world listens to them.
You must not adopt the customs of this world but by your new attitude of mind be transformed so that you can find out what God's will is??hat is good, pleasing, and perfect.
For I am no peddler of God's message, like most men, but like a man of sincerity, commissioned by God and in his presence, in union with Christ I utter his message.
So you are no longer foreigners or strangers, but you are fellow-citizens of God's people and members of his family.
He who comes from above is above all others. A son of earth belongs to earth and speaks of earth. He who comes from heaven is above all others.
Then Peter began and said, "Now I really understand that God shows no partiality,
So from that time on, I have estimated nobody at what he seemed to be outwardly; even though I once estimated Christ in that way, I no longer do so.
Fix your thoughts on the things that are above, not on those that are on earth.
and they cried in a loud voice, "Our deliverance is the work of our God who is seated on the throne, and of the Lamb!"
We are God's children. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not a child of God will not listen to us. In this way we can tell what is inspired by truth from what is inspired by error.
For consider, brothers, what happened when God called you. Not many of you were what men call wise, not many of you were influential, not many were of high birth.
If you belonged to the world, the world would love what was its own. But it is because you do not belong to the world, but I have selected you from the world, that the world hates you.
He said to them, "You are from below; I am from above. You belong to this world; I do not belong to this world.
It is faith that enables us to see that the universe was created at the command of God, so that the world we see did not simply arise out of matter.
For the Scripture says, "Rejoice, childless woman, who bear no children, Break into shouting, you who have no birth pains! For the desolate woman has more children than the married one!"
For it was not for angels that he destined the control of that world to be, that we are speaking of.
I have given them your message, and the world has come to hate them, for they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.
And if I go and make it ready, I will come back and take you with me, so that you may be where I am.
As Jesus grew older he gained in wisdom and won the approval of God and men.
What soldier ever pays his expenses out of his own pay? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat any of the grapes? Who tends a flock and does not get any of the milk?
For in the Law of Moses it reads, "You shall not muzzle an ox that is treading out the grain." Is it about the oxen that God is concerned?
Children, it is the last hour. You have heard that Antichrist is coming, and many Antichrists have indeed appeared. So we may be sure that it is the last hour.
On the day after the Sabbath, very early in the morning while it was still dark, Mary of Magdala went to the tomb, and she saw that the stone had been removed from it.
But if our wrongdoing brings out the uprightness of God, what are we to say? Is it wrong in God (I am putting it in ordinary human terms) to inflict punishment?
You are children of God, dear children, and you have been victorious over these men, for he who is in our hearts is greater than he who is in the world.
"When you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, for they like to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the squares, to let people see them. I tell you, that is the only reward they will get!
"Alas for you, Chorazin! Alas for you, Bethsaida! For if the wonders that have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented in sackcloth and ashes long ago!
And the child grew up and became strong and thoughtful, with God's blessing resting on him.
For I tell you plainly, brothers, that the good news that I preached is not a human affair.
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