Cultural Diversity

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ. — read the full passage →

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands. — read the full passage →

where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.

He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings, — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — read the full passage →

But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

The whole earth was of one language and of one speech. — read the full passage →

God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.

Also the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh, to minister to him, and to love Yahweh’s name, to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and holds fast my covenant; — read the full passage →

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →

Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment, — read the full passage →

The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.

It shall happen, that you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you and to the aliens who live among you, who shall father children among you; and they shall be to you as the native-born among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion,

Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

I saw an angel flying in mid heaven, having an eternal Good News to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth, and to every nation, tribe, language, and people.

For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him. — read the full passage →

The Good News must first be preached to all the nations.

Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you; — read the full passage →

If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion, — read the full passage →

Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

Praise Yahweh, all you nations! Extol him, all you peoples! — read the full passage →

I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, — read the full passage →

For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more. — read the full passage →

Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me. — read the full passage →

Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous, — read the full passage →

“‘If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. — read the full passage →

In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head on his bed: then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters. — read the full passage →

Let brotherly love continue. — read the full passage →

But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.

When he came into Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking him, — read the full passage →

Behold, these shall come from far; and behold, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.”

When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign language; — read the full passage →

I saw another great and marvelous sign in the sky: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them God’s wrath is finished. — read the full passage →

Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!” — read the full passage →

For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ, — read the full passage →

Now the God of patience and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings, — read the full passage →

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep. — read the full passage →

When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him. — read the full passage →

Jesus summoned his disciples and said, “I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way.” — read the full passage →

Thus says Yahweh, “Keep justice, and do righteousness; for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed. — read the full passage →

May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,

since Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →

I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply against you.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.

They will come from the east, west, north, and south, and will sit down in the Kingdom of God.

When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him. — read the full passage →

Hear the word which Yahweh speaks to you, house of Israel! — read the full passage →

The foreigner who is in your midst will mount up above you higher and higher, and you will come down lower and lower. — read the full passage →

After this, I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree. — read the full passage →

I saw, in the right hand of him who sat on the throne, a book written inside and outside, sealed shut with seven seals. — read the full passage →

One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.”

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish. — read the full passage →

He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service. — read the full passage →

Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place, where he was about to come. — read the full passage →

In those days, John the Baptizer came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying, — read the full passage →

Many nations shall join themselves to Yahweh in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell in your midst, and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you.

For then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that they may all call on Yahweh’s name, to serve him shoulder to shoulder.

Nebuchadnezzar the king, to all the peoples, nations, and languages, who dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you. — read the full passage →

even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”

God, give the king your justice; your righteousness to the royal son. — read the full passage →

May God be merciful to us, bless us, and cause his face to shine on us. Selah. — read the full passage →

Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites; — read the full passage →

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for I see not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.” — read the full passage →

All the congregation of Israel shall keep it. — read the full passage →

Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath-Paneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. All of the families of the earth will be blessed in you.”

These three were the sons of Noah, and from these, the whole earth was populated.

but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned. — read the full passage →

I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me. — read the full passage →

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame. — read the full passage →

But if all prophesy, and someone unbelieving or unlearned comes in, he is reproved by all, and he is judged by all. — read the full passage →

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, — read the full passage →

“Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the nations. They will also listen.”

Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John — read the full passage →

The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Go,and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land? — read the full passage →

For that day is of the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour and be satiate, and shall drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates. — read the full passage →

My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you; — read the full passage →

I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.” — read the full passage →

In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. — read the full passage →

Only don’t rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us. Their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us. Don’t fear them.” — read the full passage →

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →