Bible verses about "culture" | Sawyer

¹⁶ For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that every one believing in him may not perish but have eternal life.

¹ Be followers of me as I also am of Christ. ^{2 (5:1)} I COMMEND you, brothers, that you have remembered all my [instructions], and that you retain the traditions as I delivered them to you.

^{34 (8:5)} And Peter opening his mouth said, Of a truth I perceive that God is not a respecter of persons, ³⁵ but in every nation he that fears him and does righteousness is acceptable to him.

²³ Is not the soul more than the food, and the body than the clothing?

¹⁵ Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him; ¹⁶ for all that is in the world, the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. ¹⁷ And the world passes away, and its desires; but he that does the will of God continues for ever.

^{9 (4:9)} After this I saw, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, of every nation and of all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and having palm branches in their hands;

¹⁹ For being free from all men, I have made myself a servant of all, that I may gain more; ²⁰ to the Jews I have been as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to those under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain those under the law; ²¹ to those without law, as without law, being not without law to God, but with law to Christ, that I might gain those without law; ²² to the weak I have been as weak, that I might gain the weak; I have been all things to all men, that I may save some in all conditions; ²³ and I do all things for the sake of the gospel, that I may be a partaker of it.

¹⁹ If you were of this world, the world would be a friend to its own; but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

²⁸ There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither servant nor freeman, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

² and be not conformed to this life, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind, that you may prove what is the will of God which is good and well-pleasing and perfect.