36 Bible Verses about culture
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Continue in the things you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.
When you come into the land that Jehovah your God gives you, do not follow the disgusting practices of the nations that are there.
See to it that no one enslaves you by means of philosophy and worthless deceit of human wisdom according to tradition of men. It is according to the elementary principles of the world, and not from Christ.
All the ends of the earth will remember and return to Jehovah. All the families from all the nations will worship you.
Instead, they intermarried with other nations. They learned to do what other nations did.
Do not be conformed to this world (religious, social, political, and economic arrangement). But be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Prove what is the good, acceptable, and perfect will of God.
There is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman; but Christ is all and in all.
You will lose the inheritance that I gave you. I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you have not heard of. I will do this because you have stirred up the fire of my anger. It will burn for a very long time.
Speaking to the Pharisees and scribes He said: You abandon the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.
This is what Jehovah says: Do not learn the practices of the nations. Do not be frightened by the signs in the sky because they frighten the nations.
Then he returned to Nazareth the place where he was raised. He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath day. This was his custom. There he stood up to read.
Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons.
The promise is to you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as Jehovah our God calls. (Micah 4:5) (Deuteronomy 6:4)
Do not think I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I came, not to destroy, but to fulfill (perfect) (execute) (accomplish).
The days of the Son of man will be like the days of Noah.
That which bears thorns and briars is rejected, and is near to being cursed. It ends up being burned.
Concerning that I say, that each one of you said, I follow Paul; and I follow Apollos; and I follow Cephas; and I follow Christ.
Buy the truth and do not sell it. Also buy wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
Respect for Jehovah means to hate evil. I hate: pride, and arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.
Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.
After this I saw a great crowd that no man could number. It was from all nations, and tribes, and people, and tongues. It stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes. They had palm branches in their hands.
When brothers live together and one of them dies without a son the wife of the deceased shall not marry outside the family to a strange man. Her husband's brother shall marry her and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.
I am a debtor both to the Greeks, and to the barbarians, both to the wise, and to the unwise.
Daniel knew that the decree was signed. He went into his house. His windows were open in his chamber toward Jerusalem. He kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, like he did before.
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God caused the growth.
So I will silence the sound of your songs, and the sound of your harps will be heard no more.
This is for the perfecting (equipping) (preparing) of the holy ones, for the work of ministering, for the building up of the body of Christ:
