Bible Verses about โcelebrating holidaysโ
The Bible contains 42 verses about celebrating holidays across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โBe careful that you don't let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.โ
โNow accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.โ
โSo then each one of us will give account of himself to God.โ
โIt is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.โ
โOne man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.โ
โDon't let him who eats despise him who doesn't eat. Don't let him who doesn't eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.โ
โI know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.โ
โTherefore let's not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother's way, or an occasion for falling.โ
โWho are you who judge another's servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.โ
โBut 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.โ
โFor it is written, "'As I live,' says the Lord, 'to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.'"โ
โFor if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's.โ
โfor the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.โ
โSo then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.โ
โOne man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.โ
โHe who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn't eat, to the Lord he doesn't eat, and gives God thanks.โ
โYet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don't destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.โ
โBut he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn't of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.โ
โFor to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.โ
โDo you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn't judge himself in that which he approves.โ
โThen don't let your good be slandered,โ
โFor none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.โ
โDon't overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.โ
โFor he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.โ
โLet no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,โ
โWhen you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.โ
โMy soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.โ
โFor the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.โ
โwhich are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ's.โ
โThey deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it not move.โ
โThus says Yahweh, "Don't learn the way of the nations, and don't be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are dismayed at them.โ
โYou shall not do so to Yahweh your God: for every abomination to Yahweh, which he hates, have they done to their gods; for even their sons and their daughters do they burn in the fire to their gods.โ
โHe answered them, "Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?โ
โHear the word which Yahweh speaks to you, house of Israel!โ
โtake heed to yourself that you not be ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before you; and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, "How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise."โ
โWhatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do: you shall not add thereto, nor diminish from it.โ
โWhen Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations from before you, where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and dwell in their land;โ
โas the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending presents of food to one another, and gifts to the needy.โ
โYou observe days, months, seasons, and years.โ
โI am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.โ
โMordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both near and far,โ
โto enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month Adar yearly,โ
