Bible Verses About Cultural Heritage Studies

For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

And gave their land for an heritage, an heritage unto Israel his people.

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

Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.

In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

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.

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.

And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills,

Out of the spoils won in battles did they dedicate to maintain the house of the Lord.

That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:

We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.

Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations he hath made in the earth.

But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

Thus saith the Lord God; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession:

And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here!

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.

And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.

And prepare yourselves by the houses of your fathers, after your courses, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son.

We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

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

I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.

The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.

Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.

Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the Lord build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the Lord have spoken it, and I will do it.

O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

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

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.

He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?

And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.

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

And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.