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Bible Verses About The Christian Calendar And Holy Days

Early Christian writers taught that Christians should not keep the Jewish calendar in the old way, but should gather on the Lord’s Day and treat the resurrection day as special. Writers like Ignatius, the Didache, Justin Martyr, Tertullian, Origen, and the Apostolic Constitutions connect Christian worship to Sunday, Passover-style fasting, and Pentecost while rejecting mere day-keeping as a rule for righteousness.

The evidence is strong for Sunday worship and for some set fasts and feast times, but mixed for exact holy-day calendars, since some writers stress freedom from Jewish observance while later church orders give detailed feast schedules. Bible passages in Leviticus, Exodus, and Galatians provide the background for why Christians argued about Sabbaths, new moons, and appointed times.

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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:

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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.

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Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.

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

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Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.

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But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

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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:

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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.

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Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work therein.

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Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD.

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Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.

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And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.

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He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.

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And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

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For the shewbread, and for the continual meat offering, and for the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.

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Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.

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

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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.

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

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And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.

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

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And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.

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On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

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In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

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And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.

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Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

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One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.

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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:

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And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days.

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And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.

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