36 Bible Verses about culture

You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them,

thus invalidating the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down; and you do many things such as that.”

Therefore in Christ Jesus I have found reason for boasting in things pertaining to God.

“When you enter the land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not learn to imitate the detestable things of those nations.

See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ.

All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord,
And all the families of the nations will worship before You.

But they mingled with the nations
And learned their practices,

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

a renewal in which there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and freeman, but Christ is all, and in all.

And you will, even of yourself, let go of your inheritance
That I gave you;
And I will make you serve your enemies
In the land which you do not know;
For you have kindled a fire in My anger
Which will burn forever.

Neglecting the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men.”

Thus says the Lord,
“Do not learn the way of the nations,
And do not be terrified by the signs of the heavens
Although the nations are terrified by them;

And He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up; and as was His custom, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath, and stood up to read.

Furthermore, you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor shall you take their daughters for your sons.

For the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call to Himself.”

“Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill.

And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man:

but if it yields thorns and thistles, it is worthless and close to being cursed, and it ends up being burned.

Now I mean this, that each one of you is saying, “I am of Paul,” and “I of Apollos,” and “I of Cephas,” and “I of Christ.”

I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove!
I would fly away and be at rest.

Buy truth, and do not sell it,
Get wisdom and instruction and understanding.

“The fear of the Lord is to hate evil;
Pride and arrogance and the evil way
And the perverted mouth, I hate.

Moses was educated in all the learning of the Egyptians, and he was a man of power in words and deeds.

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches were in their hands;

“When brothers live together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not be married outside the family to a strange man. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her and take her to himself as wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.

I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

And while He was praying, the appearance of His face became different, and His clothing became white and gleaming.

Now when Daniel knew that the document was signed, he entered his house (now in his roof chamber he had windows open toward Jerusalem); and he continued kneeling on his knees three times a day, praying and giving thanks before his God, as he had been doing previously.

What is man that You take thought of him,
And the son of man that You care for him?

Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven.

But this crowd which does not know the Law is accursed.”

I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth.

After these things he left Athens and went to Corinth.

So I will silence the sound of your songs, and the sound of your harps will be heard no more.

for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ;

“His roots wrap around a rock pile,
He grasps a house of stones.