36 Bible Verses about culture

And thou -- be remaining in the things which thou didst learn and wast entrusted with, having known from whom thou didst learn,

setting aside the word of God for your tradition that ye delivered; and many such like things ye do.'

I have, then, a boasting in Christ Jesus, in the things pertaining to God,

'When thou art coming in unto the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, thou dost not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations:

See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,

Remember and return unto Jehovah, Do all ends of the earth, And before Thee bow themselves, Do all families of the nations,

And mix themselves among nations, and learn their works,

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what is the will of God -- the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

where there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, servant, freeman -- but the all and in all -- Christ.

And thou hast let go -- even through thyself, Of thine inheritance that I gave to thee, And I have caused thee to serve thine enemies, In a land that thou hast not known, For a fire ye have kindled in Mine anger, Unto the age it doth burn.

for, having put away the command of God, ye hold the tradition of men, baptisms of pots and cups; and many other such like things ye do.'

Thus said Jehovah: Unto the way of the nations accustom not yourselves, And by the signs of the heavens be not affrighted, For the nations are affrighted by them.

And he came to Nazareth, where he hath been brought up, and he went in, according to his custom, on the sabbath-day, to the synagogue, and stood up to read;

'And thou dost not join in marriage with them; thy daughter thou dost not give to his son, and his daughter thou dost not take to thy son,

for to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all those afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.'

Do not suppose that I came to throw down the law or the prophets -- I did not come to throw down, but to fulfil;

'And, as it came to pass in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man;

and that which is bearing thorns and briers is disapproved of, and nigh to cursing, whose end is for burning;

and I say this, that each one of you saith, 'I, indeed, am of Paul' -- 'and I of Apollos,' -- 'and I of Cephas,' -- 'and I of Christ.'

And I say, 'Who doth give to me a pinion as a dove? I fly away and rest,

Truth buy, and sell not, Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding,

The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a froward mouth, I have hated.

and Moses was taught in all wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was powerful in words and in works.

After these things I saw, and lo, a great multitude, which to number no one was able, out of all nations, and tribes, and peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands,

'When brethren dwell together, and one of them hath died, and hath no son, the wife of the dead is not without to a strange man; her husband's brother doth go in unto her, and hath taken her to him for a wife, and doth perform the duty of her husband's brother;

Both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to wise and to thoughtless, I am a debtor,

and it came to pass, in his praying, the appearance of his face became altered, and his garment white -- sparkling.

And Daniel, when he hath known that the writing is signed, hath gone up to his house, and the window being opened for him, in his upper chamber, over-against Jerusalem, three times in a day he is kneeling on his knees, and praying, and confessing before his God, because that he was doing it before this.

What is man that Thou rememberest him? The son of man that Thou inspectest him?

and ye may not call any your father on the earth, for one is your Father, who is in the heavens,

but this multitude, that is not knowing the law, is accursed.'

I planted, Apollos watered, but God was giving growth;

And after these things, Paul having departed out of Athens, came to Corinth,

And I have caused the noise of thy songs to cease, And the voice of thy harps is heard no more.

unto the perfecting of the saints, for a work of ministration, for a building up of the body of the Christ,

By a heap his roots are wrapped, A house of stones he looketh for.