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What rights does the Bible state everybody has?

Please give scriptural evidence.

Update:

Again, if you think the Bible grants humans certain rights, please give the scriptural evidence; for example, where does it say we have the right to free speech or freedom of religion, etc...or even more broadly, the right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

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  • 4 years ago
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    The Bible does not say we have rights.

    The Bible says we live due to undeserved kindness. (John 1:17)

    A person extended UNdeserved kindness does not have rights.

    They have gratitude.

  • 4 years ago

    In the sense of something like the bill of rights, there are none that everyone has. The only place in scripture that specifically talks about "rights" puts a condition on them.

    Rev 22:14 Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.

  • 4 years ago

    Well you can deduce them from the 10 commandments.

  • 4 years ago

    God doesn't base things on rights; He bases them on love.

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  • 4 years ago

    Well, starting at the top, God has the Right over everything and every one of us.

    Psalm 24

    1 The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it,

    the world, and all who live in it;

    2 for he founded it on the seas

    and established it on the waters.

    A lot of people choke on that. So I made sure I brought it up.

    God has all the rights.

    Source(s): bisexual Christian
  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    The bible is a prescription book for LIFE, both here, and later.

    It is 100% realistic knowing the wicked would usurp our rights, yet showing us how to cope.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Special religious freedom rights

  • ?
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    FREE WILL...IN GENESIS HE SAID TO CHOOSE LIFE...HE GAVE THEM GREAT ADVICE...DYING STINKS...THOSE WHO ARE OBEDIENT TO GOD AND REPENT WILL BE SAVED AND LIVE FOREVER!!

  • ?
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

    For you, Jeff.

  • yesmar
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    The Bible's not about "rights".

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