35 Bible Verses about Prejudice

Others said, "This is the Christ!" But they rejoined, "What! Is the Christ to come from Galilee?

But these common people who do not know the Law are doomed!"

The Pharisee stood up and uttered this prayer to himself: 'O God, I thank you that I am not like other men, greedy, dishonest, or adulterous, like that tax-collector.

But for all the signs he had shown among them, they refused to believe in him,

But the Pharisees said, "It is by the aid of the prince of the demons that he drives them out."

When the Sabbath came he began to teach in the synagogue. And the people were astonished when they heard him, and said, "Where did he get all this? How does he come to have such wisdom? How are such marvelous things done through him? Is he not the carpenter, Mary's son, and the brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And do not his sisters live here among us?"

We know that God spoke to Moses, but we do not know where this man came from."

Many of them said, "He is possessed and mad! Why do you listen to him?"

For if you love only those who love you, what reward can you expect? Do not the very tax-collectors do that? And if you are polite to your brothers and no one else, what is there remarkable in that? Do not the very heathen do that?

If you love only those who love you, what merit is there in that? For even godless people love those who love them. And if you help only those who help you, what merit is there in that? Even godless people act in that way. And if you lend only to people from whom you expect to get something, what merit is there in that? Even godless people lend to godless people, meaning to get it back again in full.

And all the people, even the tax-collectors, when they heard him, acknowledged the justice of God's demands, by accepting baptism from John,

and fell on his face at Jesus' feet, and thanked him. He was a Samaritan.

The Jewish believers who had come with Peter were amazed because the gift of the holy Spirit had been showered upon the heathen too,

And if Satan is disunited, how can his kingdom last? Because you say that I drive out demons with Beelzebub's aid.

and you pay attention to the man in the fine clothes and say to him, "Sit here; this is a good place!" and say to the poor man, "Stand up, or sit on the floor at my feet," have you not wavered and shown that your judgments are guided by base motives?

You judge by material standards, but I am judging nobody.

Treat people who are overscrupulous in their faith like brothers; do not criticize their views.

Do not form any premature judgments, therefore, but wait until the Lord comes back. For he will light up the darkness that now hides things and show what the motives in people's minds are, and then everyone will get from God the praise he deserves.

Those who were regarded as the leaders??hat they once were makes no difference to me; God takes no account of external differences??he leaders contributed nothing new to me.

but if you show partiality, you are committing a sin, and stand convicted before the Law as lawbreakers.

Then Peter began and said, "Now I really understand that God shows no partiality,

for God shows no partiality.

You who are masters, too, must treat your slaves in the same way, and cease to threaten them, for you know that their Master and yours is in heaven, and that he will show no partiality.

For the man who wrongs anyone will be paid back for the wrong he has done; there will be no exceptions.

He answered, 'If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead!' "

"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! But I tell you, Tyre and Sidon will fare better on the Day of Judgment than you will! And you, Capernaum! Are you to be exalted to the skies? You will go down among the dead! For if the wonders that have been done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have stood until today.

For John came to you with a way of uprightness, and you would not believe him. The tax-collectors and prostitutes believed him, but even after seeing that, you would not change your minds and believe him!

Which of the prophets did your forefathers not persecute? They killed the men who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and killed??53 you who had the Law given to you by angels, and did not obey it!"

" 'Look, you scoffers! Then wonder and begone! For I am doing something in your times Which you will never believe even when it is related to you!' "

On the same day some Sadducees came up to him, claiming that there is no resurrection, and they asked him this question:

Some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him and asked him a question.

Then some of the Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection, came up and asked him,

As they were talking in this way to the people, the high priests, the commander of the Temple, and the Sadducees came up to them, greatly disturbed because they were teaching the people and declaring that in the case of Jesus there had been a resurrection from the dead. They arrested them, and as it was already evening, they shut them up until next morning.

For the Sadducees hold that there is no resurrection and that there are no angels or spirits, while the Pharisees believe in all three.