Bible Verses about “cultural difference”

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.”

“Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.”

“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.”

“Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,”

“Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.”

“For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.”

“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”

“Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?”

“Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.”

“One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.”

“Don't let him who eats despise him who doesn't eat. Don't let him who doesn't eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.”

“Who are you who judge another's servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.”

“Jesus answered him, "Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can't see the Kingdom of God."”

“He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,”

“where there can't be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.”

“For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him.”

“He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.”

“My brothers, don't hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.”

“For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in;”

“haven't you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?”

“and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing, and say, "Sit here in a good place;" and you tell the poor man, "Stand there," or "Sit by my footstool;"”

“After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.”

“Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.”

“The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn't dwell in temples made with hands,”

“The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,”

“Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, "You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.”

“They cried with a loud voice, saying, "Salvation be to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!"”

“that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.”

“For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.' What therefore you worship in ignorance, this I announce to you.”

“To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;”

“They sang a new song, saying, "You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,”

“neither is he served by men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.”

“'For in him we live, and move, and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also his offspring.'”

“because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead."”

“So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.”

“Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign deities," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.”

“Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.”

“The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.”

“Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.”

“They took hold of him, and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by you?”

“Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,”

“For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean."”

“Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.”

“whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!"”

“But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.”

“Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.”

“explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ."”

“Some of them were persuaded, and joined Paul and Silas, of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.”

“When they didn't find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, "These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,”

“The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.”