Bible Verses About Cultural Differences

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 there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.

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

And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans.

Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land.

Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:

Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.

In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.

And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:

Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the Lord your God.

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

Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.

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.

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

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

Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

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

One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.

By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way.

One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.

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?

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

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

Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:

For there is no respect of persons with God.

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.

Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:

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.

Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.

Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king’s laws: therefore it is not for the king’s profit to suffer them.

Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

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