Culture

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

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

Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. …

If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.

For life is more than food, and the body more than clothes.

You are to imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.

Now I commend you for remembering me in everything and for maintaining the traditions, just as I passed them on to you.

After this I looked and saw a multitude too large to count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.

Therefore, brothers, stand firm and cling to the traditions we taught you, whether by speech or by letter.

And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD to minister to Him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be His servants—all who keep the Sabbath without profaning it and who hold fast to My covenant— …