Bible Verses About Cultural Expectations

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

Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:

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.

Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.

And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.

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;

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

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?

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

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.

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.

These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.

As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of 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.

But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;

Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church 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.

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.

Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

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.

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

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.

Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.

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

Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

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:

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.

Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:

All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.

For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you: