Bible verses about "diversity" | Anderson

¹⁰ There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without meaning.

¹⁶ cultivate the same disposition, one to ward another: mind not high things, but conform yourselves to things that are lowly. Be not wise in your own conceits;

¹² For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ.

¹⁵ If the foot shall say: Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body, is it, for this reason, no part of the body? ¹⁶ And if the ear shall say: Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body, is it, for this reason, no part of the body? ¹⁷ If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? ¹⁸ But now God has placed the members, each of them, in the body, as it has pleased him. ¹⁹ And if they were all one member, where were the body?

¹ Him that is weak in the faith, receive kindly, but not to judge his reasonings. ² One believes that he may eat all things; another, who is weak, eats herbs. ³ Let not him that eats, despise him that eats not; and let not him that eats not, judge him that eats: for God has received him. ⁴ Who are you that judge another man's servant? To his own master he stands or falls; indeed, he shall stand, for God is able to make him stand. ⁵ One man thinks that one day is better than another; another thinks that every day is alike. Let each be fully assured in his own mind. ⁶ He that regards the day, to the Lord he regards it; and he that does not regard the day, to the Lord he does not regard it. He that eats, eats to the Lord; for he gives God thanks: and he that eats not, to the Lord he eats not, and gives God thanks. ⁷ For no one lives to himself, and no one dies to himself. ⁸ For if we live, we live to the Lord; or if we die, we die to the Lord. "Whether, therefore, we live or die, we are the Lord s. ⁹ For this very purpose, Christ both died and rose, and lived again, that he might have dominion over the dead and the living. ¹⁰ But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you despise your brother? For we all shall stand before the judgment-seat of the Christ. ¹¹ For it is written: As I live, says the Lord, to me every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess to God. ¹² Therefore, every one of us shall give an account of himself to God. ¹³ Let us, therefore, no longer judge one another: but rather decide to put no stumbling-block or snare in your brother's way. ¹⁴ I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself; but if any one thinks that any thing is unclean, to him it is unclean. ¹⁵ But if your brother is grieved on account of your food, you no longer walk according to love. Do not, with your food, destroy him, for whom Christ died. ¹⁶ Therefore, let not that which is your good be evil spoken of. ¹⁷ For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. ¹⁸ For he who serves the Christ in these things is acceptable to God, and approved by men. ¹⁹ Therefore, let us seek those things which belong to peace, and those which tend to mutual edification. ²⁰ Destroy not the work of God on account of food. All meats, indeed, are clean; but meat is an evil to that man who, by eating, causes another to stumble. ²¹ It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do any thing by which your brother stumbles, or is ensnared, or is made weak. ²² Have you faith? Have it to yourself before God. Blessed is he who condemns not himself in that which he approves. ²³ But he that doubts is condemned, if he eat, because he eats not with faith. Every thing that is not of faith, is sin.

¹ My brethren, do not hold the faith of our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, so as to show a partiality for persons. ² For if there comes into your assembly a man in splendid apparel, and with gold rings on his fingers, and there comes in also a poor man, in mean clothing, ³ and you show regard to him that wears the splendid apparel, and say to him, Sit here, in an honorable place; and you say to the poor man, Do you stand there, or sit here, under my footstool; ⁴ are you not partial in yourselves? and do you not judge from false principles? ⁵ Hear, my be loved brethren: Has not God chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which God has promised to those who love him? ⁶ But you dishonor the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and do they not themselves drag you to the judgment-seats? ⁷ Do they not themselves revile that honorable name which is called upon you? ⁸ If, however, you fulfill the law of highest excellence, according to the scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well. ⁹ But if you show partiality for persons, you work sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors. ¹⁰ For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet fail in one, is an offender against all. ¹¹ For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now, though you do not commit adultery, yet, if you kill, you are a transgresssor of law. ¹² So speak, and so act, as those who shall be judged by the law of liberty. ¹³ For he shall have judgment without mercy, who has shown no mercy. Mercy glories over judgment. ¹⁴ What profit is there, my brethren, if any one say he has faith, and have not works? Can faith save him? ¹⁵ If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, ¹⁶ and any of you say to them, Go in peace, be warmed and be filled, and yet give them not the things that are needful for the body, what does this profit them? ¹⁷ So, also, faith, if it has not works, is dead, being by itself. ¹⁸ But some one will say, You have faith, and I have works; show me your faith by your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. ¹⁹ You believe that there is one God; you do well: the demons also believe, and tremble. ²⁰ But will you know, vain man, that faith without works is dead? ²¹ Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? ²² Do you see that faith was the moving principle in his works, and by works his faith was made perfect? ²³ And the scripture was fulfilled, which says, Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness: and he was called the friend of God. ²⁴ Do you see that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only? ²⁵ Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and sent them out another way? ²⁶ For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

¹⁶ for by him were all things created, things in heaven and things in earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or authorities; all things were created by him, and for him: ¹⁷ and he is before all things, and by him all things consist:

⁹ After this I saw, and behold, a great multitude, that no one could number, out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and there were palms in their hands;