Bible Verses About Cultural Context

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.

Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.

And when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people;

And when he had saluted them, he declared particularly what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry.

And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.

And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.

Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.

Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.

But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.

Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:

When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;

And ye shall know that I am the Lord: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you.

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;

And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?

But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.

And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;

But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.

These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.

So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.

Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.

For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:

But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;

Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:

And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.

And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;

And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds;

Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.