35 Bible Verses about Perspective
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Human arguments, you say? But does not Scripture urge the very same?
They belong to the world, therefore they speak as inspired by the world, and the world listens to them:
Instead of being moulded to this world, have your mind renewed, and so be transformed in nature, able to make out what the will of God is, namely, what is good and acceptable to him and perfect.
I am, for I am not like most, adulterating the word of God; like a man of sincerity, like a man of God, I speak the word in Christ before the very presence of God.
Thus you are strangers and foreigners no longer, you share the membership of the saints, you belong to God's own household,
He who comes from above is far above all others; he who springs from earth belongs to earth and speaks of earth; he who comes from heaven [is far above all others.
Once convinced of this, then, I estimate no one by what is external; even though I once estimated Christ by what is external, I no longer estimate him thus.
mind what is above, not what is on earth,
and they cried with a loud voice, "Saved by our God who is seated on the throne, and by the Lamb!"
we belong to God ??he who knows God listens to us, he who does not belong to God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
Why, look at your own ranks, my brothers; not many wise men (that is, judged by human standards), not many leading men, not many of good birth, have been called!
If you belonged to the world, the world would love what it owned; it is because you do not belong to the world, because I have chosen you from the world, that the world hates you.
He said to them, "You are from the world below, I am from the world above: you belong to this world, I do not belong to this world.
It is by faith we understand that the world was fashioned by the word of God, and thus the visible was made out of the invisible.
In him who strengthens me I am able for anything.
For it is written, Rejoice, O thou barren who bearest not, break into joy, thou who travailest not; for the children of the desolate woman are far more than of the married.
For the world to come, of which I am speaking, was not put under the control of angels.
I have given them thy word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.
And when I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me, so that you may be where I am.
And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favour with God and man.
Does a soldier provide his own supplies? Does a man plant a vineyard without eating its produce? Does a shepherd get no drink from the milk of the flock?
It is written in the law of Moses, You must not muzzle an ox when he is treading the grain. Is God thinking here about cattle?
Children, it is the last hour. You have learned that 'Antichrist is coming.' Well, but many antichrists have appeared ??which makes us sure it is the last hour.
On the first day of the week Mary of Magdala went early to the tomb, when it was still dark; but as she saw the boulder had been removed from the tomb,
But if our iniquity thus serves to bring out the justice of God, what are we to infer? That it is unfair of God to inflict his anger on us? (I speak in a merely human way.)
My dear children, you belong to God, and you have conquered all such, for He who is within you is greater than he who is in the world.
Also, when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, for they like to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street-corners, so as to be seen by men; I tell you truly, they do get their reward.
"Glory to God in high heaven, and peace on earth for men whom he favours!"
"Woe to you, Khorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! Had the miracles performed in you been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
And the child grew and became strong; he was filled with wisdom, and the favour of God was on him.
No, brothers, I tell you the gospel that I preach is not a human affair;
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2 Corinthians 5:8and in this confidence I would fain get away from the body and reside with the Lord.