Different Races

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

For there is no partiality with God.

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for I see not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.

Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism; — read the full passage →

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.

The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no other commandment greater than these.”

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition,

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him. — read the full passage →

The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.

However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

“‘If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. — read the full passage →

But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons, nor takes reward.

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”

But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.

Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment, — read the full passage →

Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman.

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” — read the full passage →

However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well. — read the full passage →

I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.”

But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work shall be rewarded.”

Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman. — read the full passage →

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

neither shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son. — read the full passage →

Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to promise.

I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;

But he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.

If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? and though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?

I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free.

When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.

A person born of a forbidden union shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one of his enter into Yahweh’s assembly.

neither shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.

They said, “Has Yahweh indeed spoken only with Moses? Hasn’t he spoken also with us?” And Yahweh heard it.

“‘You shall keep my statutes. “‘You shall not cross-breed different kinds of animals. “‘You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; “‘neither shall there come upon you a garment made of two kinds of material.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

Whereas you saw the iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men; but they shall not cling to one another, even as iron does not mingle with clay.

It came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.

Ruth said, “Don’t entreat me to leave you, and to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God;

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win. — read the full passage →

He said to them, “You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean.

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. — read the full passage →

Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites; — read the full passage →

and when Yahweh your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them; — read the full passage →

A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.

Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

Now the man Moses was very humble, above all the men who were on the surface of the earth.

For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them, and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esau.” Indeed, Yahweh has spoken.

In those days also saw I the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab: — read the full passage →

Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before God’s house, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very bitterly. — read the full passage →

Now when these things were done, the princes drew near to me, saying, “The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, following their abominations, even those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. — read the full passage →

Now when these things were done, the princes drew near to me, saying, “The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, following their abominations, even those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. — read the full passage →

Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.

But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day, that all these curses will come on you, and overtake you. — read the full passage →

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. — read the full passage →

When Yahweh your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, and casts out many nations before you, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than you; — read the full passage →

Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab; — read the full passage →

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →