Bible Verses About Bigotry

Ruin and misery are in their ways.

And a way of peace they did not know.

There is no fear of God before their eyes.'

And we have known that as many things as the law saith, to those in the law it doth speak, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may come under judgment to God;

wherefore by works of law shall no flesh be declared righteous before Him, for through law is a knowledge of sin.

And now apart from law hath the righteousness of God been manifested, testified to by the law and the prophets,

and the righteousness of God is through the faith of Jesus Christ to all, and upon all those believing, --for there is no difference,

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God--

What, then, shall we say Abraham our father, to have found, according to flesh?

for if Abraham by works was declared righteous, he hath to boast--but not before God;

for what doth the writing say? `And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him--to righteousness;'

and to him who is working, the reward is not reckoned of grace, but of debt;

and to him who is not working, and is believing upon Him who is declaring righteous the impious, his faith is reckoned--to righteousness:

even as David also doth speak of the happiness of the man to whom God doth reckon righteousness apart from works:

`Happy they whose lawless acts were forgiven, and whose sins were covered;

happy the man to whom the Lord may not reckon sin.'

Is this happiness, then, upon the circumcision, or also upon the uncircumcision--for we say that the faith was reckoned to Abraham--to righteousness?

how then was it reckoned? he being in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision;

and a sign he did receive of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith in the uncircumcision, for his being father of all those believing through uncircumcision, for the righteousness also being reckoned to them,

and father of circumcision to those not of circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of the faith, that is in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham.

For not through law is the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, of his being heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith;

for if they who are of law are heirs, the faith hath been made void, and the promise hath been made useless;

for the law doth work wrath; for where law is not, neither is transgression.

Because of this it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, for the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that which is of the law only, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham,

And it was not written on his account alone, that it was reckoned to him,