36 Bible Verses about culture

You, however, must continue in the things you have learned and are confident about. You know who taught you

Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like this."

So I boast in Christ Jesus about the things that pertain to God.

When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, you must not learn the abhorrent practices of those nations.

Be careful not to allow anyone to captivate you through an empty, deceitful philosophy that is according to human traditions and the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

Let all the people of the earth acknowledge the Lord and turn to him! Let all the nations worship you!

They mixed in with the nations and learned their ways.

Do not be conformed to this present world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may test and approve what is the will of God -- what is good and well-pleasing and perfect.

Here there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all and in all.

You will lose your hold on the land which I gave to you as a permanent possession. I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you know nothing about. For you have made my anger burn like a fire that will never be put out."

Having no regard for the command of God, you hold fast to human tradition."

The Lord says, "Do not start following pagan religious practices. Do not be in awe of signs that occur in the sky even though the nations hold them in awe.

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

You must not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

For the promise is for you and your children, and for all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call to himself."

"Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have not come to abolish these things but to fulfill them.

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

But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is useless and about to be cursed; its fate is to be burned.

Now I mean this, that each of you is saying, "I am with Paul," or "I am with Apollos," or "I am with Cephas," or "I am with Christ."

I say, "I wish I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and settle in a safe place!

Acquire truth and do not sell it -- wisdom, and discipline, and understanding.

The fear of the Lord is to hate evil; I hate arrogant pride and the evil way and perverse utterances.

So Moses was trained in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in his words and deeds.

After these things I looked, and here was an enormous crowd that no one could count, made up of persons from every nation, tribe, people, and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb dressed in long white robes, and with palm branches in their hands.

If brothers live together and one of them dies without having a son, the dead man's wife must not remarry someone outside the family. Instead, her late husband's brother must go to her, marry her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law.

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

As he was praying, the appearance of his face was transformed, and his clothes became very bright, a brilliant white.

When Daniel realized that a written decree had been issued, he entered his home, where the windows in his upper room opened toward Jerusalem. Three times daily he was kneeling and offering prayers and thanks to his God just as he had been accustomed to do previously.

Of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should pay attention to them,

And call no one your 'father' on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.

But this rabble who do not know the law are accursed!"

I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused it to grow.

After this Paul departed from Athens and went to Corinth.

I will silence the noise of your songs; the sound of your harps will be heard no more.

to equip the saints for the work of ministry, that is, to build up the body of Christ,

It wraps its roots around a heap of stones and it looks for a place among stones.