Bible Verses about “pagan holidays”
The Bible contains 28 verses about pagan holidays across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?”
“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.”
“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.”
“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,”
“What agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what portion has a believer with an unbeliever?”
“What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people."”
“Abstain from every form of evil.”
“Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.”
“Therefore, "'Come out from among them, and be separate,' says the Lord. 'Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.”
“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.”
“which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ's.”
“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.”
“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.”
“You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived: and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you; neither shall you walk in their statutes.”
“You can't both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can't both partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.”
“Little children, keep yourselves from idols.”
“Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, "You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.”
“Hear the word which Yahweh speaks to you, house of Israel!”
“For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.' What therefore you worship in ignorance, this I announce to you.”
“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."”
“But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I don't desire that you would have fellowship with demons.”
“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;”
“But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?”
“However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.”
“You observe days, months, seasons, and years.”
“You shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I am casting out before you: for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.”