Bible Verses About Cultural Diversity

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:

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

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.

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

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 hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

And all that believed were together, and had all things common;

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.

For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

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

For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one 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.

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

Nebuchadnezzar the king, unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you.

For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.

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:

Then king Darius wrote unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you.

And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.

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

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

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.

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;

Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it.

Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.

All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.