Bible Verses About Cultural Exploration

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

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.

And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;

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

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.

And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.

And the Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.

When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;

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

Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.

They feared the Lord, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.

And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.

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

Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over unto these men, and we will discover ourselves unto them.

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

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:

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

Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:

And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.

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

If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.

For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ:

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

And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the Lord, and are gone forth out of his land.

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.

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

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

O Lord, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.

And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.

He hath shewed his people the power of his works, that he may give them the heritage of the heathen.

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.

But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

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.

Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh–barnea to see the land.

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.