Bible Verses about “celebrating pagan holidays”
The Bible contains 40 verses about celebrating pagan holidays across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,”
“that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.”
“Be 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.”
“Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.”
“So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.”
“It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.”
“One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.”
“Don'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.”
“I 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.”
“Therefore 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.”
“Who 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.”
“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.”
“For it is written, "'As I live,' says the Lord, 'to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.'"”
“For 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.”
“for the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.”
“So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.”
“One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.”
“He 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.”
“Yet 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.”
“But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn't of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.”
“For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.”
“Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn't judge himself in that which he approves.”
“Then don't let your good be slandered,”
“For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.”
“Don'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.”
“For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.”
“For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,”
“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”
“But he answered, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.'"”
“Let 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,”
“For 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.”
“They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it not move.”
“Thus 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.”
“They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don't speak: they must be carried, because they can't go. Don't be afraid of them; for they can't do evil, neither is it in them to do good."”
“You 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.”
“He answered them, "Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?”
“Hear the word which Yahweh speaks to you, house of Israel!”
“take 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."”
“Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do: you shall not add thereto, nor diminish from it.”
“When 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;”