36 Bible Verses about culture

But as for you, continue in what you have learned and found to be true, because you know from whom you learned it.

You are destroying the word of God through your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many other things like that."

Therefore, in the Messiah Jesus I have the right to boast about my work for God.

"When you enter the land that the LORD your God is about to give you, don't learn the detestable practices of those nations there.

See to it that no one enslaves you through philosophy and empty deceit according to human tradition, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to the Messiah,

All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD; all the families of the nations will bow in submission to the LORD.

Instead, they mingled among the nations and learned their ways.

Do not be conformed to this world, but continuously be transformed by the renewing of your minds so that you may be able to determine what God's will is what is proper, pleasing, and perfect.

In him there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free person. Instead, the Messiah is all and in all.

You will let go of your inheritance which I gave you, and I'll make you serve your enemies in a land that you don't know. For with my anger you have started a fire that will burn forever.

You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition."

This is what the LORD says: "Don't learn the way of the nations, and don't be terrified by signs in the heavens, though the nations are terrified of them.

Then Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had been raised. As was his custom, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day. When he stood up to read,

You are not to intermarry with them. You are not to give your daughters to their sons nor take their daughters for your sons,

For this promise belongs to you and your children, as well as to all those who are distant, whom the Lord our God may call to himself."

"Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I didn't come to destroy them, but to fulfill them,

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

However, if it continues to produce thorns and thistles, it is worthless and in danger of being cursed, and in the end will be burned.

This is what I mean: Each of you is saying, "I belong to Paul," or "I belong to Apollos," or "I belong to Cephas," or "I belong to the Messiah."

I said, "O, who will give me the wings of a dove, so that I could fly away and live somewhere else?

Purchase truth, but don't sell it; store up wisdom, instruction, and understanding.

The fear of the LORD is to hate evil. Pride, arrogance, an evil lifestyle, and perverted speech I despise.

So Moses learned all the wisdom of the Egyptians and became a great man, both in words and in deeds.

After these things, I looked, and there was a crowd so large that no one was able to count it! They were from every nation, tribe, people, and language. They were standing in front of the throne and the lamb and were wearing white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

"When two brothers are living together and one of them dies without leaving a son, his widow must not be married outside the family to a foreigner. Instead, the brother-in-law must go to her, take her as his wife, and by doing so perform the duty of a brother-in-law.

Both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to wise and to foolish people, I am a debtor.

While he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes turned dazzling white.

When Daniel learned that the written document had been signed, he went to an upstairs room in his house that had windows opened facing Jerusalem. Three times a day he would kneel down, pray, and give thanks to his God, just as he had previously done.

what is man that you take notice of him, or the son of man that you pay attention to him?

And don't call anyone on earth "Father,' because you have only one Father, the one in heaven.

But this mob that does not know the Law they're under a curse!"

I planted, Apollos watered, but God kept everything growing.

After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.

""I'll silence the noise of your songs and the music of your harps won't be heard anymore.

to equip the saints, to do the work of ministry, and to build up the body of the Messiah

Its roots weave around a pile of stones, seeking to entrench itself among the rocks.