42 Bible Verses about Perspective

Am I saying this from a human perspective? Doesn’t the law also say the same thing?

They are from the world. Therefore what they say is from the world, and the world listens to them.

Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

For we are not like the many who market God’s message for profit. On the contrary, we speak with sincerity in Christ, as from God and before God.

So then you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with the saints, and members of God’s household,

The One who comes from above is above all. The one who is from the earth is earthly and speaks in earthly terms. The One who comes from heaven is above all.

There is no favoritism with God.

Then Peter began to speak: “Now I really understand that God doesn’t show favoritism,

From now on, then, we do not know anyone in a purely human way. Even if we have known Christ in a purely human way, yet now we no longer know Him in this way.

Set your minds on what is above, not on what is on the earth.

And they cried out in a loud voice:

Salvation belongs to our God,
who is seated on the throne,
and to the Lamb!

They are not of the world,
as I am not of the world.

The first to state his case seems right
until another comes and cross-examines him.

‘This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I will repel the weapons of war in your hands, those you are using to fight the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the wall, and I will bring them into the center of this city.

We are from God. Anyone who knows God listens to us; anyone who is not from God does not listen to us. From this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deception.

Brothers, consider your calling: Not many are wise from a human perspective, not many powerful, not many of noble birth.

If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.

“You are from below,” He told them, “I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

By faith we understand that the universe was created by God’s command, so that what is seen has been made from things that are not visible.

I am able to do all things through Him who strengthens me.

For it is written:

Rejoice, childless woman,
who does not give birth.
Burst into song and shout,
you who are not in labor,
for the children of the desolate are many,
more numerous than those
of the woman who has a husband.

For He has not subjected to angels the world to come that we are talking about.

I have given them Your word.
The world hated them
because they are not of the world,
as I am not of the world.

If I go away and prepare a place for you, I will come back and receive you to Myself, so that where I am you may be also.

And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and with people.

Who ever goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and does not drink the milk from the flock?

You, indeed, have made my days short in length,
and my life span as nothing in Your sight.
Yes, every mortal man is only a vapor.Selah

This is what the Lord says:

The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush
and the Sabeans, men of stature,
will come over to you
and will be yours;
they will follow you,
they will come over in chains
and bow down to you.
They will confess to you:
God is indeed with you, and there is no other;
there is no other God.

For it is written in the law of Moses, Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out grain. Is God really concerned with oxen?

Children, it is the last hour. And as you have heard, “Antichrist is coming,” even now many antichrists have come. We know from this that it is the last hour.

On the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark. She saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb.

But if our unrighteousness highlights God’s righteousness, what are we to say? I use a human argument: Is God unrighteous to inflict wrath?

You are from God, little children, and you have conquered them, because the One who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

“Whenever you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by people. I assure you: They’ve got their reward!

In those days and at that time—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
the Israelites and Judeans will come together,
weeping as they come,
and will seek the Lord their God.

Glory to God in the highest heaven,
and peace on earth to people He favors!

“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented in sackcloth and ashes long ago!

The boy grew up and became strong, filled with wisdom, and God’s grace was on Him.

Rise up, Lord, come to Your resting place,
You and Your powerful ark.

Now I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel preached by me is not based on human thought.

They are to carry out their responsibilities for the tent of meeting, for the holy place, and for their relatives, the sons of Aaron, in the service of the Lord’s temple.”