Since all men are created equal, the Bible makes it abundantly clear that anybody may have eternal life as a child of God and a part in God’s heavenly inheritance. How to love and serve individuals of different ages, ethnicities, cultures, and nations is a topic that may be found throughout the Bible. In this study, we will examine biblical passages for guidance on how to promote equality and welcome all people.

Affirming the rights of persons of various sexual orientations and gender identities has been a hotly debated topic for decades. Christian teachings join the overwhelming majority of other religions in rejecting homosexuality. However, this immorality is not a reason to deny everyone the right to be treated properly. If you’re really equal, you have the same protections under the law as everyone else. A number of Bible verses are used as references in this piece. An abundance of topics are discussed in the article. Bible verse on treating others with dignity

God designed mankind with the ability to freely express love and happiness to others around them. This was granted long before the Ten Commandments were ever conceived of in the Hebrew Scriptures. When God formed all of his creatures, he fashioned them perfect copies of one another. God sees each individual as equal, regardless of their socioeconomic status or family history. If you want to know how they’ve been seen historically, it could be wiser to look at what they’ve done instead of who they are.

Bible Verses About Equality Of Rights

Teach these Bible verses to your children and future generations so that the love of God for man’s equality can be respected and treasured! Jesus preached about discrimination and judgment based on outward appearances. Jesus, our perfect example of a righteous man, welcomed all with open loving arms, and he commands us to do the same.

No physical or financial trait changes the way God sees that person, treats that person, and loves that person. God did not create a different patriarch for the different races. All peoples come from Adam, and he is the Father of the human race.

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 2,383 helpful votes

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Romans 2:11 ESV / 867 helpful votes

For God shows no partiality.

John 13:16 ESV / 694 helpful votes

Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 600 helpful votes

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Mark 12:31 ESV / 520 helpful votes

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

Galatians 3:26-29 ESV / 484 helpful votes

For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.

Leviticus 19:33-34 ESV / 316 helpful votes

“When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Proverbs 22:2 ESV / 306 helpful votes

The rich and the poor meet together; the Lord is the maker of them all.

Colossians 1:16-17 ESV / 228 helpful votes

For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

Acts 10:34-35 ESV / 191 helpful votes

So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.

Luke 14:13-14 ESV / 189 helpful votes

But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”

Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 174 helpful votes

Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

James 2:1-26 ESV / 171 helpful votes

My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,” have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him? …

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 164 helpful votes

Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

Hebrews 12:14 ESV / 163 helpful votes

Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 156 helpful votes

“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Leviticus 19:15 ESV / 154 helpful votes

“You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.

Ephesians 2:14 ESV / 148 helpful votes

For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility

Acts 17:26 ESV / 148 helpful votes

And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,

Psalm 67:4 ESV / 148 helpful votes

Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth. Selah

Philippians 2:6 ESV / 127 helpful votes

Who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,

Proverbs 20:10 ESV / 127 helpful votes

Unequal weights and unequal measures are both alike an abomination to the Lord.

Deuteronomy 10:17 ESV / 127 helpful votes

For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes no bribe.

1 John 2:2 ESV / 114 helpful votes

He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

Mark 12:25-37 ESV / 106 helpful votes

For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not God of the dead, but of the living. You are quite wrong.” And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. …

Revelation 11:7-13:7 ESV / 94 helpful votes

And when they have finished their testimony, the beast that rises from the bottomless pit will make war on them and conquer them and kill them, and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified. For three and a half days some from the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb, and those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry and exchange presents, because these two prophets had been a torment to those who dwell on the earth. But after the three and a half days a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood up on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them. …

Revelation 7:9 ESV / 94 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,

Bible Verses aboutEquity

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 9 helpful votes

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Isaiah 11:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes

But with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.

1 John 5:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that does not lead to death.

Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 5 helpful votes

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. …

Romans 6:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 2:1-29 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God? Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed. …

Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. …

Psalm 98:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Before the Lord, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

James 2:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar?

Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. …

2 Corinthians 5:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Matthew 7:1-5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. …

Psalm 96:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Before the Lord, for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness, and the peoples in his faithfulness.

Psalm 96:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Say among the nations, “The Lord reigns! Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity.”

Exodus 22:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“You shall not wrong a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

Bible Verses About Treating Everyone Equally

“Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly.” (Leviticus 19:15)

“Love your neighbor as yourself.” (Matthew 22:39)

“Treat others the same way you want them to treat you.” (Luke 6:31)

“You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” (Matthew 22:37-39)

“You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.” (Exodus 20:3-6)

“Love your neighbor as yourself.” (Matthew 22:39)

“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.” (Matthew 7:12)

“For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.” (2 Corinthians 5:10)

1 Corinthians 12:12-13, “For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. For the body does not consist of one member but of many.”

Galatians 3:28-29, “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. And if you belong to Christ then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.”

James 2:1-4, “My brothers and sisters, do you with your acts of favoritism really believe in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ? For if a person comes into your assembly with gold rings and expensive clothes, and there also comes in a poor person… do you give special attention and a good seat to the rich person? Or do you offer him no attention? Do you treat him like someone who doesn’t matter? Are you partial to people who can help

Matthew 7:12 (NIV)

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

Matthew 22:39-40 (NIV)

‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

Mark 12:28-31 (NIV)

‘Here is what it means: Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind’; The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”

Romans 13:8-10 (NIV)

Let no debt remain outstanding except the continuing debt to love one another; for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. The commandments, ‘You shall not commit adultery,’ ‘You shall not murder,’ ‘You shall not steal,’ ‘You shall not covet,’ and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this one rule: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ Love does no harm to its neighbor

Luke 2:14-16

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased! We praise you, we bless you, we worship you, we glorify you, we give thanks to you for your great glory. Lord God, heavenly King, O God, almighty Father. Lord Jesus Christ, only Son of the Father. Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father who takes away the sin of the world. You take away the sins of everyone who trusts in you.

Revelation 5:9-10

And they sang a new song: “You are worthy to take the scroll and open its seals because you have won victory over your anger and have not paid attention to their desires. For if anyone has been given authority over these things then he will be able to pass judgment on them as well….”

Bible Verses About Treating Others With Dignity And Respect

Treating others with dignity and respect is a Christian virtue. Being kind is one of the greatest ways to show love for others, and it’s something that we should all strive to do.

Here are some Bible verses about treating others with dignity and respect:

“Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.” (Matthew 7:12)

“Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering.” (Colossians 3:12)

“Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.” (James 1:19-20)

“Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone.”

(Romans 12:17)

“Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.”

(Romans 12:9)

“Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.”

(Romans 13:13)

“But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

(Romans 5:8)

Treat others as you want to be treated. – Luke 6:31

Do to others as you would have them do to you. – Matthew 7:12

Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. – Romans 12:15

If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. – Romans 12:18

If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head. Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. – Romans 12:20-21

1 Corinthians 13:4-8

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

Proverbs 17:17

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Psalm 25:4-5

“Show me your ways, O Lord, teach me your paths. Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.”

Proverbs 11:12

“A righteous man cares for the needs of his animals, but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel.”

Isaiah 1:17

“Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s cause.”

Colossians 3:12-13

“Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.”