38 Bible Verses About Discrimination

We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?

There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.

Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.

Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn:

And Absalom said unto him, See, thy matters are good and right; but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.

He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.

But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald: yet is he clean.

And he hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the host: but Solomon thy servant hath he not called.

The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul.

And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance.

Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us:

The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.

All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.

A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord.

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.

And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish ought from your bricks of your daily task.

An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.

There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people.

The man, who is the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.

He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord.

And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.

And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.

And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.

What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts.

Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;

Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in mine hand?