Bible Verses About Cultural Identity

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

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

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

And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?

But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,

Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land.

For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:

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

These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.

Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.

For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.

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

I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

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.

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

Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:

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

Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.

But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

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

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?

For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.

And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

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.

When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;

For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;

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

We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of 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:

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

Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:

And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed.

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