34 Bible Verses About Tolerance

Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.

And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:

If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.

Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.

For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.

Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst ye searched out what to say.

Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:

That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.

The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him pertained Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher:

And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?

Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.

Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.

Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour’s house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee.

Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land.

And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and serve under tribute.

One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.

Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributaries.

A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.

And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land.

If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.

Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these are the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the land of Canaan.

Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name’s sake;

Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

Both low and high, rich and poor, together.

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.

By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.

And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp;

Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.