stereotypes
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24Do not judge according to appearances, but instead judge a just judgment.”
12A certain one of these, a prophet of their own kind, said: “The Cretans are ever liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.” 13This testimony is true. Because of this, rebuke them sharply, so that they may be sound in the faith, 14not paying attention to Jewish fables, nor to the rules of men who have turned themselves away from the truth. 15All things are clean to those who are clean. But to those who are defiled, and to unbelievers, nothing is clean; for both their mind and their conscience have been polluted. 16They claim that they know God. But, by their own works, they deny him, since they are abominable, and unbelieving, and reprobate, toward every good work.
6For behold, I will raise up the Chaldeans, a bitter and swift people, marching across the width of the earth, to possess tabernacles not their own.
10Is there not one Father of us all? Did not one God create us? Why, then, does each one of us despise his brother, violating the covenant of our fathers?
7And the Lord said to Samuel: “You should not look with favor on his face, nor on the height of his stature. For I have rejected him. Neither do I judge by the appearance of a man. For man sees those things that are apparent, but the Lord beholds the heart.”
1“Do not judge, so that you may not be judged. 2For with whatever judgment you judge, so shall you be judged; and with whatever measure you measure out, so shall it be measured back to you.
1Now there was a man among the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews.
11And so, have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead, refute them.
2And do not choose to be conformed to this age, but instead choose to be reformed in the newness of your mind, so that you may demonstrate what is the will of God: what is good, and what is well-pleasing, and what is perfect.
51“Does our law judge a man, unless it has first heard him and has known what he has done?”
16You shall not be a detractor, nor a whisperer, among the people. You shall not stand against the blood of your neighbor. I am the Lord. 17You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but reprove him openly, lest you have sin over him.