Bible verses about "black history" | Sawyer

⁴ who are Israelites, whose are the adoption and the glory, and the covenants and the giving of the law, and the service, and the promises,

¹ And there were prophets and teachers in the church at Antioch; Barnabas and Simeon called Niger [the black], and Lucius the Cyrenian, and Manaen the foster brother of Herod the Tetrarch, and Saul.

^{1 (1:1)} A REVELATION of Jesus Christ, which God gave him, to show his servants [things] which must shortly occur, and he sent and made them known by his angel to his servant John,

⁹ And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book and to open its seals, for thou wast killed and hast redeemed to God with thy blood [men] from every tribe and tongue and people and nation,

^{1 (4:2)} And there was a man of the Pharisees whose name was Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. ² This man came to him by night and said to him, Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can perform these miracles which you perform unless God is with him. ³ Jesus answered and said to him, I tell you most truly, unless one has been born again he cannot see the kingdom of God. ⁴ Nicodemus said to him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he become an unborn infant of his mother a second time, and be born? ⁵ Jesus answered, I tell you most truly, unless a man is born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. ⁶ That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is a spirit. ⁷ Wonder not that I said to you, You must be born again. ⁸ The Spirit breathes where it wills, and you hear its voice, but you know not whence it comes, nor whither it goes; so is every one that has been born of the Spirit. ^{9 (4:3)} Nicodemus answered and said to him, How can these things be? ¹⁰ Jesus answered and said to him, Are you a teacher of Israel and know not these things? ¹¹ I tell you most truly, that we speak what we know, and what we have seen we testify; and you receive not our testimony. ¹² If I have told you earthly things and you believe not, how will you believe if I should tell you heavenly things? ¹³ And no one has ascended into heaven but he that came down from heaven, the Son of man who is in heaven. ¹⁴ And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up; ¹⁵ that every one believing in him may have eternal life. ¹⁶ For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that every one believing in him may not perish but have eternal life.

²⁸ There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither servant nor freeman, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

²⁶ and he made of one blood every nation of men to live on all the face of the earth, determining their appointed times and the bounds of their habitation,