36 Bible Verses about Prejudice

Nathanael said to him, Is any good thing able to come out of Nazareth? Philip says to him, Come and see.

others were saying, He is the Christ; others were saying, For whether does Christ come out of Galilee?

But this crowd knowing not the law are accursed.

The Pharisee standing was praying in these words, God, I thank thee because I am not like the rest of the men, extortioners, unjust, adulterous, or even as this publican:

And He having done so many miracles in their presence, they were not believing on Him,

Never did it so appear in Israel. And the Pharisees continued to say, He casts out the demons through the prince of the demons.

and it being the Sabbath day, He began to preach in the synagogue: and many hearing were astonished, saying, Whence are these things to this one? and, What wisdom is given unto Him? Such miracles are wrought by His hands. Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary? the brother of James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? Are not His sisters here with us? And they were offended in Him.

we know that God spoke to Moses: but we do not know this One, whence He is.

Then many of them were saying, He has a demon, and is gone mad; why do you hear Him? Others were saying,

For if you love those that love you, what reward have ye? because the publicans also do the same. If you salute your brethren only, what do ye more abundantly? do not the heathens also the same thing?

If you love those who love you, what grace is there to you? for even sinners love those who love them. And if you may do good to those doing good to you, what grace is there to you? for sinners also do the same. And if you may lend to those from whom you may hope to receive, what grace is there to you? for sinners lend to sinners, that they may receive back the equivalent.

And all the people hearing and the publicans justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.

and he fell upon his face at His feet, giving thanks to Him: and he was a Samaritan.

And the faithful ones who were of the circumcision, so many as came along with Peter, were astonished, because the gift of the Holy Ghost was poured out on the Gentiles also;

And if Satan were indeed divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? Because you say I am casting out demons through Beelzebul.

and you may look upon the one wearing the shining garment, and say, Sit thou here in a good place; and may say to the poor man, Stand thou there, or sit down beneath my footstool: are you not condemned among yourselves, and have you not become the judges of evil reasonings?

You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.

But receive to yourselves him who is weak in faith, not into disputations of doubtful matters.

So judge nothing before the time, until the Lord may come, who will also bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then praise shall be to each one from God.

But of those seeming to be something what they were at that time makes no difference to me: God does not receive the face of man: for those seeming to me to be prominent added nothing extra:

But if you have respect of persons, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

And Peter, opening his mouth, said, In truth I apprehend that God is no respecter of persons:

For there is no respect of persons with God.

And, ye masters, do the same things to them, forbearing threatening: knowing that their Master and yours is in the heavens, and that there is no respect of persons with him.

for the one doing wrong receives that for which he did the injustice: and there is no respect of persons.

But he said to him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, they will not be persuaded if one may rise from the dead.

Woe unto thee, Chorazin! Woe unto thee, Bethsaida! because if the mighty works which were wrought in you had been in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. Moreover I say unto you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you. And thou, Capernaum, art thou not exalted up to heaven? thou shall be cast down to Hades: because if the mighty works which were wrought in thee had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.

For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you believed him not: but the publicans and harlots believed him, and you, seeing, did not afterward regret it, in order that you might believe him.

Which one of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? and they slew those proclaiming concerning the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you became:

Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and vanish away: because I work a work in your days, a work which you may not believe, though one may proclaim it to you.

On that day the Sadducees came to Him, saying, there is no resurrection: and asked Him,

And the Sadducees come to Him, who say there is no resurrection; and asked Him, saying;

And certain ones of the Sadducees, who deny that there is a resurrection, coming forward asked Him,

And they speaking to the people, the priests and captain of the temple and the Sadducees rose up against them, being grieved because they were teaching the people and preaching the resurrection of the dead through Jesus; and they laid hands on them and put them in prison till the morrow; for it was already evening.

For the Sadducees indeed say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.