Bible Verses about “culture”

“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.”

“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 love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.”

“For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.”

“The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.”

“Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.”

“Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.”

“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,”

“Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,”

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

“If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.”

“Peter opened his mouth and said, "Truly I perceive that God doesn't show favoritism;”

“which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ's.”

“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.”

“but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.”

“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.”

“in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)”

“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,”

“So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,”

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

“Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.”

“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;”

“To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.”

“For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.”

“to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.”

“Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.”

“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 he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition,”

“'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.'”

“even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples."”

“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."”

“having abolished in the flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace;”

“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.”

“For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.”

“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.”

“and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby.”

“The Lord Yahweh, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, "Yet will I gather [others] to him, besides his own who are gathered."”

“He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.”

“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?”

“Also the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh, to minister to him, and to love the name of Yahweh, to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and holds fast my covenant;”

“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.”