Bible Verses About Cultural Norms

Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the Lord your 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.

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.

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.

For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.

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

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 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.

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

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

For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;

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:

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.

But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.

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

Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:

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.

But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?

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

Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.

For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:

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

And ye shall know that I am the Lord: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you.

Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,

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

It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.

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

That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the Lord your God.

My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

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.

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

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:

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;

It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

Let all things be done decently and in order.

Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the Lord your God.

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.