Bible Verses About Religious Rituals

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.

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.

They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the Lord do sanctify them.

Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

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

Have ye not cast out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of other lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods.

For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:

Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;

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.

But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?

And thou shalt anoint the laver and his foot, and sanctify it.

He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine’s blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.

But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.

And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the Lord in the sabbaths, in the new moons, and on the set feasts, by number, according to the order commanded unto them, continually before the Lord:

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:

Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.

As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire unto the Lord:

And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and seethe his flesh in the holy place.

As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.

And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take his blood, and sprinkle it round about upon the altar.

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

And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the Lord:

This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, about the most holy things:

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

That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the Lord your God.

Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall consecrate themselves.

On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: ye shall do no servile work therein:

And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them, to minister unto me in the priest’s office: Take one young bullock, and two rams without blemish,

He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head.

And the priest shall dip his finger in some of the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before the Lord, even before the vail.

And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:

For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

And he that let go the goat for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward come into the camp.

And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;

But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

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

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

And the anointing oil, and sweet incense for the holy place: according to all that I have commanded thee shall they do.