Bible verses about "diversity" | Riverside

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

¹⁶ Be in harmony with one another. Do not be thinking of high things, but be content with humble things. Do not become conceited.

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

¹⁵ If the foot says, "Because I am not a hand I am not of the body," it is not for that reason not of the body. ¹⁶ And if the ear says, "Because I am not an eye I am not of the body," it is not for that reason not of the body. ¹⁷ If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling? ¹⁸ But now God has placed the members each one of them in the body as he pleased. ¹⁹ If all were one member, where would be the body?

¹ WELCOME him who is weak in the faith, but not in order to decide disputed questions. ² One man believes in eating all things. The weak man eats vegetables. ³ The man who eats is not to despise the one who does not eat, and he who does not eat is not to judge the one who eats. For God has accepted him. ⁴ Who are you to judge the servant of another? To his own master he stands or falls, and stand he will, for God is able to make him stand. ⁵ One man esteems one day above another, another man esteems every day. Let each be fully persuaded in his own mind. ⁶ He who regards the day regards it to the Lord and he who eats eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God. And he who does not eat abstains for the Lord and gives thanks to God. ⁷ For no one of us is living for himself and no one dies for himself. ⁸ If we live we live for the Lord and if we die we die for the Lord. So whether we live or die we are the Lord's. ⁹ For to this end Christ died and lived again, in order that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living. ¹⁰ But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you, why do you treat your brother with contempt? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God. ¹¹ For it is written, "As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bend to me and every tongue shall confess to God." ¹² So then each one of us shall give account for himself to God. ¹³ Therefore let us no longer judge one another, but let us rather decide not to put a stumbling block in a brother's way, or anything to trip him up. ¹⁴ I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is defiling in itself. But to one who thinks anything to be defiling it is defiling. ¹⁵ If because of your food your brother is grieved, you are no longer walking in love. Do not with your food destroy him for whom Christ died. ¹⁶ Do not let what is good to you be spoken of as evil. 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 thus serves Christ is pleasing to God and esteemed by men. ¹⁹ Therefore, let us seek for what makes for peace and our mutual upbuilding. ²⁰ Do not for the sake of food break down the work of God. All things are pure, but anything is evil to the man who eats it with a feeling of doing wrong. ²¹ It is noble not to eat meat or to drink wine or to do anything over which your brother stumbles. ²² The faith that you have, have to yourself before God. Blessed is the man who does not condemn himself for what he allows himself. ²³ He who has doubts and still eats stands condemned, because he is not acting from faith. But whatever does not spring from faith is sin.

¹ MY brethren, do not hold the faith of our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with partiality for persons. ² For if there comes into your assembly a man with gold rings and in fine clothes, and there comes in a poor man in soiled clothes, ³ and you look up to the man who is wearing the fine clothes and say, "Take this good seat," and say to the poor man, "Stand there," or "Sit under my footstool," ⁴ are you not making distinctions in your own minds and have you not become judges with wicked thoughts? ⁵ Listen, my beloved brethren, did not God choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him? ⁶ But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you before courts? ⁷ Do they not speak profanely of the noble name by which you are called? ⁸ If you keep the royal law according to the Scripture, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," you do well. ⁹ But if you have partiality, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as law-breakers. ¹⁰ For he who keeps the whole law, but stumbles in one point, has become guilty of all. ¹¹ For he who said, "Thou shalt not commit adultery," said also, "Thou shalt not commit murder." If you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a law-breaker. ¹² So speak and so act as those who are soon to be judged by a law of liberty. ¹³ For judgment is merciless to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment. ¹⁴ Of what use is it, my brethren, for any one to say that he has faith, if he has not works? Can faith save him? ¹⁵ If a brother or sister is naked and lacks food for the day ¹⁶ and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and fed," but you do not give them what the body needs, what is the good of it? ¹⁷ Just so faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead. ¹⁸ But some one will say, "You have faith and I have works. Show me your faith without your works and I will show you my faith by my works." ¹⁹ You have faith that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons have that faith, and they shudder. ²⁰ Are you willing to learn, O vacant-minded man, that faith without works is useless? ²¹ Was not Abraham, our father, pronounced righteous because of works when he laid Isaac his son on the altar? ²² You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was made perfect ²³ and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham had faith in God and it was credited to him for righteousness" and he was called "God's friend." ²⁴ You see that a man is pronounced righteous because of works and not because of faith alone. ²⁵ In the same way was not Rahab, the prostitute, pronounced righteous because of works when she had received the messengers and sent them out by a different road? ²⁶ For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead.

¹⁶ for in him were created all things in heaven and on earth, both visible and invisible, whether thrones or lordships or archangels or powers — all things have been created through him and for him, ¹⁷ and he is before all things and in him all things unite.

⁹ After this I looked and there was a great multitude which no one could count, out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb clothed in white robes and with palms in their hands,