Bible Verses About Pagan Holidays
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for pagan holidays, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,463 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 10:20-21. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Pagan Holidays
1 Corinthians 10:20-21144 votes
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.
2 Corinthians 6:14-17134 votes
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
1 Thessalonians 5:21-22127 votes
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Leviticus 18:3117 votes
After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.
Deuteronomy 12:30-31103 votes
Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
Deuteronomy 12:29-3191 votes
When the Lord thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;
Colossians 2:16-1791 votes
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:
Galatians 4:8-1086 votes
Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
Colossians 2:879 votes
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Jeremiah 10:2-476 votes
Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
Jeremiah 10:2-372 votes
Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
Romans 14:5-660 votes
One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
Acts 17:22-2358 votes
Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.
1 John 5:2158 votes
Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
Jeremiah 10:1-455 votes
Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
Leviticus 20:2350 votes
And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
Ephesians 5:1141 votes
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
Deuteronomy 12:29-3238 votes
When the Lord thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;
Jeremiah 10:2-938 votes
Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
Romans 12:236 votes
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Jeremiah 10:1-535 votes
Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
Revelation 18:433 votes
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
2 Kings 17:1532 votes
And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them, that they should not do like them.
Exodus 34:14-1630 votes
For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
John 8:3230 votes
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
What does the Bible say about pagan holidays?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 10:20-21 on the subject of pagan holidays. Across 2,463 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 2 Corinthians 6:14-17, 1 Thessalonians 5:21-22, Leviticus 18:3. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.