Bible Verses About Cultural Exchange

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

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

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.

These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, it is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.

And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever be among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord; as ye do, so he shall do.

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

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 it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the Lord God.

Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things.

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

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

Of the nations concerning which the Lord said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.

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.

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.

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.

Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name’s sake;

One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the Lord.

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 strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.

Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.

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

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

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.

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

Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;

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

But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.

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

And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you:

To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man’s line of things made ready to our hand.

Thus saith the Lord of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.

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.

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:

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

If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.

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