Bible verses about "culture" | Rotherham

¹⁶ For God, so loved, the world, that, his Only Begotten Son, he gave,––that, whosoever believeth on him, might not perish, but have life age–abiding.

¹ Become imitators of me,––even as, I also, [am] of Christ. ² Now I praise you, that, in all things, ye have me in remembrance, and, even as I delivered unto you the instructions, ye hold them fast.

³⁴ And Peter, opening his mouth, said––Of a truth, I find that God is no respecter of persons; ³⁵ But, in every nation, he that feareth him and worketh righteousness, is acceptable unto him.

¹⁷ And, as for these four youths, God, gave them, knowledge and skill, in all learning and wisdom,––and, Daniel, had discernment, in all visions and dreams. ¹⁸ Now, at the end of the days after which the king had given word to bring them in, then did the ruler of the eunuchs bring them in, before Nebuchadnezzar. ¹⁹ So then the king, spake with them, and there was not found, from among them all, one like unto Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,––therefore stood they before the king; ²⁰ and, in any matter of wisdom and discernment as to which the king, enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the sacred scribes––the magicians, who were in all his realm.

²³ For, the life, is more, than the food, and, the body, than, the clothing.

¹⁵ Be not loving the world, nor yet the things that are in the world: if anyone be loving the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶ Because, all that is in the world––the coveting of the flesh, the coveting of the eyes, and the vain grandeur of life––is not of the Father, but is, of the world; ¹⁷ And, the world, passeth away, and the coveting [thereof], but, he that doeth the will of God, endureth unto times age–abiding.

⁹ After these things, I saw, and lo! a great multitude,––which, to number it! no one was able,––of every nation, and [of all] tribes, and peoples, and tongues; standing before the throne, and before the Lamb; arrayed in white robes, and palm–branches in their hands; ––

¹⁹ For, though free from all, unto all, myself, I enslaved,––that, the larger number, I might win: ²⁰ Therefore became I, to the Jews, as, a Jew,––that, Jews, I might win; to them who were under law, as, under law, not being, myself, under law,––that, them who were under law, I might win; ²¹ To them who were without law, as, without law,––not being without law to God, but lawfully subject to Christ,––that I might win them who were without law. ²² I became, unto the weak, weak,––that, the weak, I might win; ––to all men, have I become all things, that, by all means, some, I might save. ²³ But, all things, am I doing, for the sake of the glad–message, that a joint–partaker thereof, I may become.

¹⁹ If, of the world, ye had been, the world, of its own, had been fond; but, because, of the world, ye are not, on the contrary, I, chose you out of the world, therefore, the world, doth hate you.

²⁸ There cannot be Jew or Greek, there cannot be bond or free, there cannot be male and female, for, all ye, are one, in Christ Jesus:

² And be not configuring yourselves unto this age, but be transforming yourselves by the renewing of your mind, to the end ye may be proving what is the thing willed by God––the good and acceptable and perfect.