Bible verses about "multiculturalism" | Darby

¹ If there arise among you a prophet, or one that dreameth dreams, and he give thee a sign or a wonder, ² and the sign or the wonder come to pass that he told unto thee, when he said, Let us go after other gods, whom thou hast not known, and let us serve them, ³ -- thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams; for Jehovah your God proveth you, to know whether ye love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul. ⁴ Ye shall walk after Jehovah your God, and ye shall fear him, and his commandments shall ye keep, and his voice shall ye hear; and ye shall serve him, and unto him shall ye cleave. ⁵ And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; for he hath spoken revolt against Jehovah your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, -- to draw thee out of the way that Jehovah thy God commanded thee to walk in; and thou shalt put evil away from thy midst. ⁶ If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, who is to thee as thy soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods (whom thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; ⁷ of the gods of the peoples which are round about you, near unto thee, or far from thee, from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth), ⁸ thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye spare him, neither shalt thou pity him, neither shalt thou screen him, ⁹ but thou shalt in any case kill him: thy hand shall be the first against him to put him to death, and afterwards the hands of all the people; ¹⁰ and thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; for he hath sought to draw thee away from Jehovah thy God who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; ¹¹ and all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wicked thing as this in thy midst. ¹² If in one of thy cities, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee to dwell there, thou hearest, saying, ¹³ There are men, children of Belial, gone out from among you, and they have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, whom ye have not known; ¹⁴ then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and if it be truth, [and] the thing be certain, that this abomination hath happened in the midst of thee, ¹⁵ thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, devoting it to destruction, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword. ¹⁶ And all the spoil of it shalt thou gather into the midst of the open place thereof, and shalt burn the city with fire, and all the spoil thereof, wholly to Jehovah thy God; and it shall be a heap for ever; it shall not be built again. ¹⁷ And thou shalt not let anything cleave to thy hand of the devoted thing; that Jehovah may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers; ¹⁸ when thou hearkenest to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, that thou mayest do what is right in the eyes of Jehovah thy God.

¹⁸ And Jesus coming up spoke to them, saying, All power has been given me in heaven and upon earth. ¹⁹ Go [therefore] and make disciples of all the nations, baptising them to the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit; ²⁰ teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have enjoined you. And behold, *I* am with you all the days, until the completion of the age.

²⁶ and has made of one blood every nation of men to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, having determined ordained times and the boundaries of their dwelling,

¹ I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings be made for all men; ² for kings and all that are in dignity, that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life in all piety and gravity; ³ for this is good and acceptable before our Saviour God, ⁴ who desires that all men should be saved and come to [the] knowledge of [the] truth. ⁵ For God is one, and [the] mediator of God and men one, [the] man Christ Jesus, ⁶ who gave himself a ransom for all, the testimony [to be rendered] in its own times; ⁷ to which *I* have been appointed a herald and apostle, (I speak [the] truth, I do not lie,) a teacher of [the] nations in faith and truth. ⁸ I will therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up pious hands, without wrath or reasoning. ⁹ In like manner also that the women in decent deportment and dress adorn themselves with modesty and discretion, not with plaited [hair] and gold, or pearls, or costly clothing, ¹⁰ but, what becomes women making profession of the fear of God, by good works. ¹¹ Let a woman learn in quietness in all subjection; ¹² but I do not suffer a woman to teach nor to exercise authority over man, but to be in quietness; ¹³ for Adam was formed first, then Eve: ¹⁴ and Adam was not deceived; but the woman, having been deceived, was in transgression. ¹⁵ But she shall be preserved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with discretion.

¹⁶ because they rejected mine ordinances and walked not in my statutes, and profaned my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

²² Ye worship ye know not what; we worship what we know, for salvation is of the Jews.

¹ Praise Jehovah, all ye nations; laud him, all ye peoples; ² For his loving-kindness is great toward us, and the truth of Jehovah [endureth] for ever. Hallelujah!

¹⁶ Thus because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I am about to spue thee out of my mouth.

¹² and ye shall know that I [am] Jehovah, in whose statutes ye have not walked, neither have done mine ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are round about you.

²⁰ and teach them the statutes and the laws, and make known to them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.

¹² And salvation is in none other, for neither is there another name under heaven which is given among men by which we must be saved.

²⁹ When Jehovah thy God cutteth off from before thee the nations whither thou goest, to take possession of them, and thou hast dispossessed them, and dwellest in their land, ³⁰ take heed to thyself that thou be not ensnared [to follow] after them, after that they are destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. ³¹ Thou shalt not do so to Jehovah thy God; for every [thing that is] abomination to Jehovah, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters have they burned in the fire to their gods. ³² Everything that I command you, ye shall take heed to do it; thou shalt not add thereto, nor take from it.