Bible verses about "multiculturalism" | Bishops

¹ If there aryse among you a prophete or a dreamer of dreames, and geue thee a signe, or a wonder ² And that signe or wonder whiche he hath sayde come to passe, and then say: Let vs go after straunge gods (which thou hast not knowen) and let vs serue them ³ Hearken not thou vnto the wordes of that prophete or dreamer of dreames: For the Lorde thy God proueth you, to knowe whether ye loue the Lorde your God with all your heart and with all your soule ⁴ Ye shall walke after the Lorde your God, and feare him, kepe his commaundementes, and hearken vnto his voyce, you shall serue hym, & cleaue vnto hym ⁵ And that prophete or dreamer of dreames shal die ( because he hath spoken to turne you away from the Lorde your God whiche brought you out of the lande of Egypt, and deliuered you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out the way which the Lorde thy God commaunded thee to walke in) and therefore thou shalt put the euyll away from thee ⁶ If thy brother, the sonne of thy mother, or thine owne sonne, or thy daughter, or the wyfe that lieth in thy bosome, or thy frende whiche is as thyne owne soule vnto thee, entice thee secretely, saying: Let vs go and serue straunge gods (which thou hast not knowen, nor yet thy fathers ⁷ And they be any of the gods of the people whiche are rounde about you: whether they be nye vnto thee or farre of fro thee, from the one ende of the earth vnto the other ⁸ Thou shalt not consent vnto hym, nor hearken vnto hym, thyne eye shall not pitie hym, neither shalt thou haue compassion on hym, nor kepe hym secrete ⁹ But cause him to be slayne: Thine hande shalbe first vpon him to kill him, and then the handes of all the people ¹⁰ And thou shalt stone hym with stones that he dye: because he hath gone about to thrust thee away from the Lord thy God, whiche brought thee out of the lande of Egypt, and from the house of bondage ¹¹ And all Israel shall heare and feare, and shall do no more any suche wickednesse, as this is among you ¹² If thou shalt heare say in one of thy cities, whiche the Lorde thy God hath geuen thee to dwell in ¹³ That certaine men beyng the children of Belial, are gone out fro among you, and haue moued the inhabiters of their citie, saying: let vs go and serue straunge gods, whiche ye haue not knowen ¹⁴ Then thou must seeke, & make searche and enquire diligently: And behold, if it be true, & the thing of a suretie, that such ahbomination is wrought among you ¹⁵ Then thou shalt smyte the dwellers of that citie with the edge of the sworde, and destroy it vtterly, & all that is therin, and euen the very cattell therof, with the edge of the sworde ¹⁶ And gather all the spoyle of it into the middes of the streate therof, and burne with fire both the citie and all the spoyle therof euery whyt for the Lorde thy God: and it shalbe an heape for euer, and shall not be buylt agayne ¹⁷ And there shal cleaue naught of the damned thyng in thyne hande, that the Lorde may turne from the fiercenesse of his wrath, and shew thee mercy, and haue compassion on thee, and multiplie thee, as he hath sworne vnto thy fathers ¹⁸ Therefore shalt thou hearken vnto the voyce of the Lorde thy God, to kepe all his commaundementes whiche I commaunde thee this day, that thou do that whiche is ryght in the eyes of the Lorde thy God

¹⁸ And Iesus came, and spake vnto the, saying: All power is geuen vnto me in heauen and in earth ¹⁹ Go ye therfore, & teache all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father, and of the sonne, and of the holye ghost ²⁰ Teachyng the to obserue all thynges, whatsoeuer I haue commaunded you. And loe, I am with you alway, euen vnto the ende of the worlde

²⁶ And hath made of one blood all nations of men, for to dwell on all ye face of the earth, & hath determined the tymes before appoynted, and also the boundes of their habitation

¹ I exhort therefore, that firste of all, prayers, supplications, intercessios and geuynge of thankes be made for all men ² For kynges, and for all that are in auctoritie, that we maye leade a quiete and peaceable lyfe, in all godlynesse and honestie ³ For that is good and accepted in the syght of God our sauiour ⁴ Who wyll haue all men to be saued, and to come vnto the knowledge of the trueth ⁵ For [there is] one God, and one mediatour of God and men, the man Christe Iesus ⁶ Who gaue him selfe a raunsome for all, a testimonie in due tymes ⁷ Wherevnto I am ordeined a preacher and an apostle (I tell the trueth in Christe, and lye not) a teacher of the gentiles in fayth and veritie ⁸ I wyll therefore, that the men praye euerywhere, lyftyng vp holy handes, without wrath and reasonyng ⁹ Lykewyse also the women, that they araye them selues in comely apparell, with shamefastnesse, and discrete behauiour, not in brayded heere, either golde or pearles, or costly aray ¹⁰ But (that becommeth women professyng godlynesse) through good workes ¹¹ Let the woman learne in scilence in all subiection ¹² But I suffer not a woman to teache, neither to vsurpe auctoritie ouer ye man, but to be in scilence ¹³ For Adam was first fourmed, then Eue ¹⁴ And Adam was not deceaued: but the woman beyng deceaued, was in the transgression ¹⁵ Notwithstandyng through bearyng of chyldren she shalbe saued, yf they continue in fayth and loue, and holynesse, with modestie

¹⁶ And that because they cast away my iudgementes and walked not in my statutes: but haue defiled my Sabbathes: for their heart was gone after their idols

²² Ye worshippe ye wote not what. We knowe what we worshippe: For saluation commeth of the Iewes

¹ O prayse God all ye heathen: prayse hym all ye nations ² For his mercifull kyndnesse is euer more and more towarde vs: and the trueth of God endureth for euer. Prayse ye the Lorde

¹⁶ So the, because thou art luke warme, and neither colde nor hotte, I wyll spewe thee out of my mouth

¹² That ye may knowe that I am the Lorde, in whose commaundementes ye haue not walked, nor kept my lawes: but haue done after the customes of the heathen that lye rounde about you

²⁰ And thou shalt teache them ordinaunces and lawes, and shew them the way wherein they must walke, & the worke that they must do

¹² Neither is there saluation in any other. For among men vnder heauen, there is geuen none other name, wherin we must be saued

²⁹ When the Lord thy God shall destroy the nations before thee whyther thou goest to possesse them, and thou succeedest in their inheritaunce, and dwellest in their lande ³⁰ Beware that thou be not taken in a snare after them, after that they be destroyed before thee, and that thou aske not after their gods, saying: Howe do these nations serue their gods? I wyll do so likewise ³¹ Nay, thou shalt not do so vnto the Lorde thy God: for all abhominations, and that whiche the Lorde hateth, the same haue they done vnto their gods ³² For they haue burned both their sonnes and their daughters with fire before their gods. Therefore whatsoeuer I commaunde you, take heede ye do it: and put thou naught therto, nor take ought therefrom