Bible Verses About Pagan Holidays

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.

Clear Bible warning about pagan sacrifice

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:

General feast-calendar background from Torah.

Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.

Background about Feast of Tabernacles.

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

Old Testament feast calendar background

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.

Old Testament feast calendar background

And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.

General feast list from Torah.

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:

Background about festival timing in the law.

Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:

Background on Israel's appointed feasts.

And in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.

Passover/Unleavened Bread background.

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

Golden calf sacrifice and reveling.

And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

Old Testament example of idolatrous worship patterns

Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.

General command against pagan worship patterns

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.

Warns against idolatry and pagan reveling.

And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.

Jeroboam's man-made feast and sacrifices, a negative biblical parallel.

So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.

Man-made feast from his own heart.

And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD.

Feast to the LORD after making a calf, a warning example.

And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.

Calling people to the sacrifices of gods.

Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.

General command against idols

Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.

Used by early Christians to discuss observance of days, months, times, and years.

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.

Condemns chosen abominations and false worship.

Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people.

Pagan sacrifice to Jupiter.

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

Directly links former pagan life to idols

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

Day of appointed festival as a query about feast observance.

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:

New Testament passage often used in day observance questions

And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.

Another Torah feast text.

And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.

Baal feast days.

I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

Prophetic rejection of feast days.

Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.

Appointed feasts rejected by God.

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

Her feast days, new moons, and Sabbaths removed.

They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.

High-place sacrifices tied to idolatry.

Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD's house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.

Weeping for Tammuz as pagan devotion.