Bible Verses About Cultural Evolution

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.

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

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

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

And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

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.

And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

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.

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.

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 it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,

But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.

And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them, that they should not do like them.

And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.

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;

For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

The same was in the beginning with God.

And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

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

The Lord shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.

Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.

Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;

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.

And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?

But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

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.

Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.