Bible Verses About Cultural Celebrations

And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans.

Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the Lord your God.

Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:

I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.

For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.

Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast:

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the Lord?

Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.

When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the Lord thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you.

And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept other seven days with gladness.

And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.

Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for God had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.

And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and laud him, all ye people.

And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing.

For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.

Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.

Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.

As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.

These are the feasts of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:

And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you.

And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.

But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.

And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the Lord.

Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;

Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:

For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The Lord hath done great things for them.

But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:

For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord seven days:

Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.

And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.

Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord shall choose: because the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.