Bible Verses About Cultural Development

And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.

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

Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.

This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord.

For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve him with one consent.

But the word of God grew and multiplied.

And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.

And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.

And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;

And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.

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.

And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.

Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:

He hath shewed his people the power of his works, that he may give them the heritage of the heathen.

And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.

Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.

He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.

And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;

So these nations feared the Lord, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children’s children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.

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

Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.

For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

Thou hast increased the nation, O Lord, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.

And the gospel must first be published among all nations.

And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.

The Lord shall increase you more and more, you and your children.

One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.

That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.

Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

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

And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, The Lord liveth; as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst of my people.

And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,

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