Աստվածաշնչի համարներ Cultural Integrity

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;

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.

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

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.

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.

For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve him with one consent.

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

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:

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

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

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

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

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 have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

That ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them:

For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:

Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:

And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

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.

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

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.

Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

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

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

For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.

Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.

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.

Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

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

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

That hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbour’s wife,