Bible Verses About Bigotry: General references

Yochanan responded, “Rabbi, we saw someone expelling demons in your name; and we stopped him because he doesn’t follow you along with us.”

Yeshua said to him, “Don’t stop such people, because whoever isn’t against you is for you.”

Also, to some who were relying on their own righteousness and looking down on everyone else, he told this parable:

“Two men went up to the Temple to pray, one a Parush and the other a tax-collector.

The Parush stood and prayed to himself, ‘O God! I thank you that I am not like the rest of humanity — greedy, dishonest, immoral, or like this tax-collector!

I fast twice a week, I pay tithes on my entire income, . . . ’

But the tax-collector, standing far off, would not even raise his eyes toward heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God! Have mercy on me, sinner that I am!’

I tell you, this man went down to his home right with God rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.”

But when Gallio became the Roman governor of Achaia, the unbelieving Jews made a concerted attack on Sha’ul and took him to court,

saying, “This man is trying to persuade people to worship God in ways that violate the Torah.”