Quotes About Culture

When they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.

While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was deeply disturbed in his spirit to see that the city was full of idols.

So they took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus, where they asked him, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?

Now all the Athenians and foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing more than hearing and articulating new ideas.

Then Paul stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that in every way you are very religious.

When the men heard this, they were enraged and began shouting, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

But when they realized that he was a Jew, they all shouted in unison for about two hours: “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

But Paul answered, “I am a Jew from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no ordinary city. Now I beg you to allow me to speak to the people.”

When they heard him speak to them in Hebrew, they became even more silent. Then Paul declared,

If a woman does not cover her head, she should have her hair cut off. And if it is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut or shaved off, she should cover her head.

Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?

Doesnít nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him,

Assuredly, there are many different languages in the world, yet none of them is without meaning.

If, then, I do not know the meaning of someoneís language, I am a foreigner to the speaker, and he is a foreigner to me.

I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.

We who are Jews by birth and not Gentile “sinners”