Bible Verses About Bigotry

And John, answering, said: Master, we saw a certain man casting out devils in thy name: and we forbade him, because he followeth not with us.

And Jesus said to him: Forbid him not: for he that is not against you is for you.

And to some who trusted in themselves as just and despised others, he spoke also this parable:

Two men went up into the temple to pray: the one a Pharisee and the other a publican.

The Pharisee standing, prayed thus with himself: O God, I give thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, as also is this publican.

I fast twice in a week: I give tithes of all that I possess.

And the publican, standing afar off, would not so much as lift up his eyes towards heaven; but struck his breast, saying: O God, be merciful to me a sinner.

I say to you, this man went down into his house justified rather than the other: because every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled: and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him to the judgment seat,

Saying: This man persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.

What advantage then hath the Jew: or what is the profit of circumcision?

Much every way. First indeed, because the words of God were committed to them.

For what if some of them have not believed? Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid!

But God is true and every man a liar, as it is written: That thou mayest be justified in thy words and mayest overcome when thou art judged.

But if our injustice commend the justice of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust, who executeth wrath?

(I speak according to man.) God forbid! Otherwise how shall God judge this world?

For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie, unto his glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner?

And not rather (as we are slandered and as some affirm that we say) let us do evil that there may come good? Whose damnation is just.

What then? Do we excel them? No, not so. For we have charged both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

As it is written: There is not any man just.

There is none that understandeth: there is none that seeketh after God.

All have turned out of the way: they are become unprofitable together: there is none that doth good, there is not so much as one.

Their throat is an open sepulchre: with their tongues they have dealt deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips.

Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

Their feet swift to shed blood: