Bible Verses About Cultural Interactions

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

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

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

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.

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;

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

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

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.

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.

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.

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

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

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.

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.

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:

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:

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

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

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;

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

And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.

Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

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

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