Celebrating Pagan Holidays

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.

When Yahweh your God cuts off the nations from before you, where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and dwell in their land; — read the full passage →

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! — read the full passage →

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

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,

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →

One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind. — read the full passage →

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

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.’”

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. — read the full passage →

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

“Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Most certainly you shall keep my Sabbaths: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.

“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

Thus says Yahweh, “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what kind of house will you build to me? and what place shall be my rest? — read the full passage →

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, — read the full passage →

“‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is Yahweh’s Passover. — read the full passage →

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers. — read the full passage →

He answered them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. — read the full passage →

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do. You shall not add to it, nor take away from it.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this.”

But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all; — read the full passage →

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’”

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. — read the full passage →

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 are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

They came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Opening their treasures, they offered to him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to them, may God add to him the plagues which are written in this book. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

Hear the word which Yahweh speaks to you, house of Israel! — read the full passage →

He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son. — read the full passage →

Hear the word which Yahweh speaks to you, house of Israel! — read the full passage →

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

You shall not do so to Yahweh your God; for every abomination to Yahweh, which he hates, have they done to their gods; for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.

When Yahweh your God cuts off the nations from before you, where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and dwell in their land; — read the full passage →

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →

They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it not move.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.

Moreover, Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, “Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the prostitute.

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.

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 ax.

Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”

Therefore “‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump? — read the full passage →

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men. — read the full passage →

be careful that you are not 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.” — read the full passage →

“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. — read the full passage →

However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.

Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will return to the house of David. — read the full passage →

Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience. — read the full passage →

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. — read the full passage →

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

Abstain from every form of evil.

Hear the word which Yahweh speaks to you, house of Israel!

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

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.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.” — read the full passage →

Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, against the shepherds who feed my people: You have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them; behold, I will visit on you the evil of your doings, says Yahweh.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

So then, brothers, stand firm, and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word, or by letter.

For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them, — read the full passage →

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.

One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

When Yahweh your God cuts off the nations from before you, where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and dwell in their land;

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.

It shall happen, that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me,” says Yahweh.

Blessed are those who do his commandments,that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.

instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world;

It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

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.”

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

Then a convenient day came, that Herod on his birthday made a supper for his nobles, the high officers, and the chief men of Galilee.

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. — read the full passage →

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen.

in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

You observe days, months, seasons, and years.