What does the Bible say about blacks?
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The Bible teaches that people of every skin color and nation are equally created in God’s image, accountable to him, and invited into his saving grace through Christ. Genesis 1:26 grounds human dignity in God’s creation, while Romans 2:11 declares that God shows no partiality. Song of Solomon 1:5-6 speaks positively and honestly of dark skin, and Jeremiah 13:23 recognizes ethnicity and physical appearance as part of human reality. Acts 13:1 includes believers from diverse backgrounds in the church’s leadership, and Luke 23:26 records Simon of Cyrene sharing in Christ’s path of suffering. In Christ, racial pride, contempt, and exclusion are condemned, while love, justice, and gospel unity are commanded.
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- Numbers 12:1
Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman.
- Luke 23:26
When they led him away, they grabbed one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it after Jesus.
- Song of Solomon 1:5
I am dark, but lovely, You daughters of Jerusalem, Like Kedar's tents, Like Solomon's curtains.
- Romans 2:11
For there is no partiality with God.
- Acts 13:1
Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
- Jeremiah 13:23
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.
- Genesis 1:26
God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
- Song of Solomon 1:6
Don't stare at me because I am dark, Because the sun has scorched me. My mother's sons were angry with me. They made me keeper of the vineyards. I haven't kept my own vineyard.
- Proverbs 3:5
Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, And don't lean on your own understanding.
- Amos 9:7
Are you not like the children of the Ethiopians to me, children of Israel?" says Yahweh. "Haven't I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
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