Colossians 2:16

Beware Of Requirements Invented By Humans

¹⁵ He disarmed the rulers and authorities and disgraced them publicly; He triumphed over them by Him. ¹⁶ Therefore, don’t let anyone judge you in regard to food and drink or in the matter of a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day. ¹⁷ These are a shadow of what was to come; the substance is the Messiah.

Eating and Drinking

In Me

New Moon

New Moons

Sabbath Day

On Account Of Me

No

Non

Romans 14:5-6

One person considers one day to be above another day. Someone else considers every day to be the same. Each one must be fully convinced in his own mind.

Romans 14:10

But you, why do you criticize your brother? Or you, why do you look down on your brother? For we will all stand before the tribunal of God.

Galatians 4:10

You observe special days, months, seasons, and years.

1 Chronicles 23:31

Whenever burnt offerings are offered to the Lord on the Sabbaths, New Moons, and appointed festivals, they are to do so regularly in the Lord’s presence according to the number prescribed for them.

Nehemiah 10:33

the bread displayed before the Lord, the daily grain offering, the regular burnt offering, the Sabbath and New Moon offerings, the appointed festivals, the holy things, the sin offerings to atone for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.

Hebrews 9:10

They are physical regulations and only deal with food, drink, and various washings imposed until the time of restoration.

Leviticus 11:2-47

“Tell the Israelites: You may eat all these kinds of land animals.

Leviticus 16:31

It is a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you must practice self-denial; it is a permanent statute.

Leviticus 17:10-15

“Anyone from the house of Israel or from the foreigners who live among them who eats any blood, I will turn against that person who eats blood and cut him off from his people.

Leviticus 23:1-44

The Lord spoke to Moses:

Numbers 10:10

You are to sound the trumpets over your burnt offerings and your fellowship sacrifices and on your joyous occasions, your appointed festivals, and the beginning of each of your months. They will serve as a reminder for you before your God: I am Yahweh your God.”

Numbers 28:1-29

The Lord spoke to Moses,

Deuteronomy 14:3-21

“You must not eat any detestable thing.

Deuteronomy 16:1-17

“Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the Lord your God, because the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night in the month of Abib.

1 Samuel 20:5

So David told him, “Look, tomorrow is the New Moon, and I’m supposed to sit down and eat with the king. Instead, let me go, and I’ll hide in the field until the third night.

1 Samuel 20:18

Then Jonathan said to him, “Tomorrow is the New Moon; you’ll be missed because your seat will be empty.

2 Kings 4:23

But he said, “Why go to him today? It’s not a New Moon or a Sabbath.”

She replied, “Everything is all right.”

Nehemiah 8:9

Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were instructing the people said to all of them, “This day is holy to the Lord your God. Do not mourn or weep.” For all the people were weeping as they heard the words of the law.

Nehemiah 10:31

When the surrounding peoples bring merchandise or any kind of grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or a holy day. We will also leave the land uncultivated in the seventh year and will cancel every debt.

Psalm 42:4

I remember this as I pour out my heart:
how I walked with many,
leading the festive procession to the house of God,
with joyful and thankful shouts.

Psalm 81:3

Blow the horn on the day of our feasts
during the new moon
and during the full moon.

Isaiah 1:13

Stop bringing useless offerings.
Your incense is detestable to Me.
New Moons and Sabbaths,
and the calling of solemn assemblies—
I cannot stand iniquity with a festival.

Ezekiel 4:14

But I said, “Oh, Lord God, I have never been defiled. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything that died naturally or was mauled by wild beasts. And impure meat has never entered my mouth.”

Ezekiel 45:17

Then the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings for the festivals, New Moons, and Sabbaths—for all the appointed times of the house of Israel—will be the prince’s responsibility. He will provide the sin offerings, grain offerings, burnt offerings, and fellowship offerings to make atonement on behalf of the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 46:1-3

“This is what the Lord God says: The gate of the inner court that faces east must be closed during the six days of work, but it will be opened on the Sabbath day and opened on the day of the New Moon.

Amos 8:5

asking, “When will the New Moon be over
so we may sell grain,
and the Sabbath,
so we may market wheat?
We can reduce the measure
while increasing the price
and cheat with dishonest scales.

Matthew 15:11

It’s not what goes into the mouth that defiles a man, but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.”

Mark 2:27-28

Then He told them, “The Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath.

Mark 7:19

For it doesn’t go into his heart but into the stomach and is eliminated.” (As a result, He made all foods clean.)

Acts 11:3-18

saying, “You visited uncircumcised men and ate with them!”

Acts 15:20

but instead we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from blood.

Romans 14:2-3

One person believes he may eat anything, but one who is weak eats only vegetables.

Romans 14:13-17

Therefore, let us no longer criticize one another. Instead decide never to put a stumbling block or pitfall in your brother’s way.

Romans 14:20-21

Do not tear down God’s work because of food. Everything is clean, but it is wrong for a man to cause stumbling by what he eats.

1 Corinthians 8:7-13

However, not everyone has this knowledge. In fact, some have been so used to idolatry up until now that when they eat food offered to an idol, their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

1 Corinthians 10:28-31

But if someone says to you, “This is food offered to an idol,” do not eat it, out of consideration for the one who told you, and for conscience’ sake.

Galatians 2:12-13

For he regularly ate with the Gentiles before certain men came from James. However, when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, because he feared those from the circumcision party.

1 Timothy 4:3-5

They forbid marriage and demand abstinence from foods that God created to be received with gratitude by those who believe and know the truth.

Hebrews 13:9

Don’t be led astray by various kinds of strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be established by grace and not by foods, since those involved in them have not benefited.

James 4:11

Don’t criticize one another, brothers. He who criticizes a brother or judges his brother criticizes the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.