Bible Verses About Cultural Gatherings

These are the feasts of the Lord, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.

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

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

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.

Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.

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.

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.

When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the Lord.

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

Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the Lord your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:

Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.

Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.

Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.

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:

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

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.

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.

But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the Lord; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.

Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.

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

When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s supper.

Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.

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.

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

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.

And when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people;

If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.

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 when he had saluted them, he declared particularly what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry.

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

Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.

In the first day shall be an holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work therein:

(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.

Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;

For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

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

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

When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.

When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;