35 Bible Verses about culture

But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it

thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do."

In Christ Jesus, then, I have reason to be proud of my work for God.

"When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations.

See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations shall worship before you.

but they mixed with the nations and learned to do as they did.

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.

You shall loosen your hand from your heritage that I gave to you, and I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn forever."

You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men."

Thus says the LORD: "Learn not the way of the nations, nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens because the nations are dismayed at them,

And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read.

You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons,

For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself."

"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man.

But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, and its end is to be burned.

What I mean is that each one of you says, "I follow Paul," or "I follow Apollos," or "I follow Cephas," or "I follow Christ."

And I say, "Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest;

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

The fear of the LORD is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.

And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds.

After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,

"If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband's brother shall go in to her and take her as his 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 as he was praying, the appearance of his face was altered, and his clothing became dazzling white.

When Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he went to his house where he had windows in his upper chamber open toward Jerusalem. He got down on his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he had done previously.

what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?

But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed."

I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.

After this Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.

And I will stop the music of your songs, and the sound of your lyres shall be heard no more.

to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,

His roots entwine the stone heap; he looks upon a house of stones.