Colossians 2:16 Cross References

Colossians 2:16

16: So don't let anyone condemn you for what you eat or drink, or for not celebrating certain holy days or new-moon ceremonies or Sabbaths.

Romans 14:5

  1. In the same way, some think one day is more holy than another day, while others think every day is alike. Each person should have a personal conviction about this matter.
  2. Those who have a special day for worshiping the Lord are trying to honor him. Those who eat all kinds of food do so to honor the Lord, since they give thanks to God before eating. And those who won't eat everything also want to please the Lord and give thanks to God.

Romans 14:10

  1. So why do you condemn another Christian? Why do you look down on another Christian? Remember, each of us will stand personally before the judgment seat of God.

Romans 14:13

  1. So don't condemn each other anymore. Decide instead to live in such a way that you will not put an obstacle in another Christian's path.
  2. I know and am perfectly sure on the authority of the Lord Jesus that no food, in and of itself, is wrong to eat. But if someone believes it is wrong, then for that person it is wrong.
  3. And if another Christian is distressed by what you eat, you are not acting in love if you eat it. Don't let your eating ruin someone for whom Christ died.
  4. Then you will not be condemned for doing something you know is all right.
  5. For the Kingdom of God is not a matter of what we eat or drink, but of living a life of goodness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Galatians 4:10

  1. You are trying to find favor with God by what you do or don't do on certain days or months or seasons or years.

Ezekiel 45:17

  1. The prince will be required to provide offerings that are given at the religious festivals, the new moon celebrations, the Sabbath days, and all other similar occasions. He will provide the sin offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings, drink offerings, and peace offerings to make reconciliation for the people of Israel.

1 Chronicles 23:31

  1. They assisted with the burnt offerings that were presented to the LORD on Sabbath days, at new moon celebrations, and at all the appointed festivals. The proper number of Levites served in the LORD's presence at all times, following all the procedures they had been given.

Romans 14:2

  1. For instance, one person believes it is all right to eat anything. But another believer who has a sensitive conscience will eat only vegetables.
  2. Those who think it is all right to eat anything must not look down on those who won't. And those who won't eat certain foods must not condemn those who do, for God has accepted them.

Matthew 15:11

  1. You are not defiled by what you eat; you are defiled by what you say and do. "

Nehemiah 10:33

  1. This will provide for the Bread of the Presence; for the regular grain offerings and burnt offerings; for the offerings on the Sabbaths, the new moon celebrations, and the annual festivals; for the holy offerings; and for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel. It will also provide for the other items necessary for the work of the Temple of our God.

Hebrews 13:9

  1. So do not be attracted by strange, new ideas. Your spiritual strength comes from God's special favor, not from ceremonial rules about food, which don't help those who follow them.

Hebrews 9:10

  1. For that old system deals only with food and drink and ritual washing--external regulations that are in effect only until their limitations can be corrected.

Numbers 28:1

  1. The LORD said to Moses,
  2. "Give these instructions to the people of Israel: The offerings you present to me by fire on the altar are my food, and they are very pleasing to me. See to it that they are brought at the appointed times and offered according to my instructions.
  3. "Say to them: When you present your daily whole burnt offerings to the LORD, you must offer two one-year-old male lambs with no physical defects.
  4. One lamb will be sacrificed in the morning and the other in the evening.
  5. With each lamb you must offer a grain offering of two quarts of choice flour mixed with one quart of olive oil.

Mark 7:19

  1. Food doesn't come in contact with your heart, but only passes through the stomach and then comes out again." (By saying this, he showed that every kind of food is acceptable.)

Galatians 2:12

  1. When he first arrived, he ate with the Gentile Christians, who don't bother with circumcision. But afterward, when some Jewish friends of James came, Peter wouldn't eat with the Gentiles anymore because he was afraid of what these legalists would say.
  2. Then the other Jewish Christians followed Peter's hypocrisy, and even Barnabas was influenced to join them in their hypocrisy.

Mark 2:27

  1. Then he said to them, "The Sabbath was made to benefit people, and not people to benefit the Sabbath.
  2. And I, the Son of Man, am master even of the Sabbath!"

James 4:11

  1. Don't speak evil against each other, my dear brothers and sisters. If you criticize each other and condemn each other, then you are criticizing and condemning God's law. But you are not a judge who can decide whether the law is right or wrong. Your job is to obey it.

Romans 14:20

  1. Don't tear apart the work of God over what you eat. Remember, there is nothing wrong with these things in themselves. But it is wrong to eat anything if it makes another person stumble.
  2. Don't eat meat or drink wine or do anything else if it might cause another Christian to stumble.

1 Timothy 4:3

  1. They will say it is wrong to be married and wrong to eat certain foods. But God created those foods to be eaten with thanksgiving by people who know and believe the truth.
  2. Since everything God created is good, we should not reject any of it. We may receive it gladly, with thankful hearts.
  3. For we know it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.

1 Corinthians 10:28

  1. But suppose someone warns you that this meat has been offered to an idol. Don't eat it, out of consideration for the conscience of the one who told you.
  2. It might not be a matter of conscience for you, but it is for the other person. Now, why should my freedom be limited by what someone else thinks?
  3. If I can thank God for the food and enjoy it, why should I be condemned for eating it?
  4. Whatever you eat or drink or whatever you do, you must do all for the glory of God.

Leviticus 23:1

  1. The LORD said to Moses,
  2. "Give the Israelites instructions regarding the LORD's appointed festivals, the days when all of you will be summoned to worship me.
  3. You may work for six days each week, but on the seventh day all work must come to a complete stop. It is the LORD's Sabbath day of complete rest, a holy day to assemble for worship. It must be observed wherever you live.
  4. In addition to the Sabbath, the LORD has established festivals, the holy occasions to be observed at the proper time each year.
  5. "First comes the LORD's Passover, which begins at twilight on its appointed day in early spring.

Psalms 81:3

  1. Sound the trumpet for a sacred feast when the moon is new, when the moon is full.

Isaiah 1:13

  1. The incense you bring me is a stench in my nostrils! Your celebrations of the new moon and the Sabbath day, and your special days for fasting--even your most pious meetings--are all sinful and false. I want nothing more to do with them.

Numbers 10:10

  1. Blow the trumpets in times of gladness, too, sounding them at your annual festivals and at the beginning of each month to rejoice over your burnt offerings and peace offerings. The trumpets will remind the LORD your God of his covenant with you. I am the LORD your God."

Leviticus 11:2

  1. "Give the following instructions to the Israelites: The animals you may use for food
  2. include those that have completely divided hooves and chew the cud.
  3. You may not, however, eat the animals named here because they either have split hooves or chew the cud, but not both. The camel may not be eaten, for though it chews the cud, it does not have split hooves.
  4. The same is true of the rock badger
  5. and the hare, so they also may never be eaten.

Nehemiah 10:31

  1. We further promise that if the people of the land should bring any merchandise or grain to be sold on the Sabbath or on any other holy day, we will refuse to buy it. And we promise not to do any work every seventh year and to cancel the debts owed to us by other Jews.

Acts 15:20

  1. except that we should write to them and tell them to abstain from eating meat sacrificed to idols, from sexual immorality, and from consuming blood or eating the meat of strangled animals.

Acts 11:3

  1. "You entered the home of Gentiles and even ate with them!" they said.
  2. Then Peter told them exactly what had happened.
  3. "One day in Joppa," he said, "while I was praying, I went into a trance and saw a vision. Something like a large sheet was let down by its four corners from the sky. And it came right down to me.
  4. When I looked inside the sheet, I saw all sorts of small animals, wild animals, reptiles, and birds that we are not allowed to eat.
  5. And I heard a voice say, 'Get up, Peter; kill and eat them.'

Ezekiel 46:1

  1. "This is what the Sovereign LORD says: The east gateway of the inner wall will be closed during the six workdays each week, but it will be open on Sabbath days and the days of new moon celebrations.
  2. The prince will enter the foyer of the gateway from the outside. Then he will stand by the gatepost while the priest offers his burnt offering and peace offering. He will worship inside the gateway passage and then go back out the way he came. The gateway will not be closed until evening.
  3. The common people will worship the LORD in front of this gateway on Sabbath days and the days of new moon celebrations.

Psalms 42:4

  1. My heart is breaking as I remember how it used to be: I walked among the crowds of worshipers, leading a great procession to the house of God, singing for joy and giving thanks--it was the sound of a great celebration!

Deuteronomy 16:1

  1. "In honor of the LORD your God, always celebrate the Passover at the proper time in early spring, for that was when the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
  2. Your Passover sacrifice may be from either the flock or the herd, and it must be sacrificed to the LORD your God at the place he chooses for his name to be honored.
  3. Eat it with bread made without yeast. For seven days eat only bread made without yeast, as you did when you escaped from Egypt in such a hurry. Eat this bread--the bread of suffering--so that you will remember the day you departed from Egypt as long as you live.
  4. Let no yeast be found in any house throughout your land for seven days. And do not let any of the meat of the Passover lamb remain until the next morning.
  5. "The Passover must not be eaten in the towns that the LORD your God is giving you.

Amos 8:5

  1. You can't wait for the Sabbath day to be over and the religious festivals to end so you can get back to cheating the helpless. You measure out your grain in false measures and weigh it out on dishonest scales.

Leviticus 17:10

  1. "And I will turn against anyone, whether an Israelite or a foreigner living among you, who eats or drinks blood in any form. I will cut off such a person from the community,
  2. for the life of any creature is in its blood. I have given you the blood so you can make atonement for your sins. It is the blood, representing life, that brings you atonement.
  3. That is why I said to the Israelites: `You and the foreigners who live among you must never eat or drink blood.'
  4. "And this command applies both to Israelites and to the foreigners living among you. If you go hunting and kill an animal or bird that is approved for eating, you must drain out the blood and cover it with earth.
  5. The life of every creature is in the blood. That is why I have told the people of Israel never to eat or drink it, for the life of any bird or animal is in the blood. So whoever eats or drinks blood must be cut off.

Ezekiel 4:14

  1. Then I said, "O Sovereign LORD, must I be defiled by using human dung? For I have never been defiled before. From the time I was a child until now I have never eaten any animal that died of sickness or that I found dead. And I have never eaten any of the animals that our laws forbid."

1 Samuel 20:5

  1. David replied, "Tomorrow we celebrate the new moon festival. I've always eaten with your father on this occasion, but tomorrow I'll hide in the field and stay there until the evening of the third day.

1 Corinthians 8:7

  1. However, not all Christians realize this. Some are accustomed to thinking of idols as being real, so when they eat food that has been offered to idols, they think of it as the worship of real gods, and their weak consciences are violated.
  2. It's true that we can't win God's approval by what we eat. We don't miss out on anything if we don't eat it, and we don't gain anything if we do.
  3. But you must be careful with this freedom of yours. Do not cause a brother or sister with a weaker conscience to stumble.
  4. You see, this is what can happen: Weak Christians who think it is wrong to eat this food will see you eating in the temple of an idol. You know there's nothing wrong with it, but they will be encouraged to violate their conscience by eating food that has been dedicated to the idol.
  5. So because of your superior knowledge, a weak Christian, for whom Christ died, will be destroyed.

1 Samuel 20:18

  1. Then Jonathan said, "Tomorrow we celebrate the new moon festival. You will be missed when your place at the table is empty.

Leviticus 16:31

  1. It will be a Sabbath day of total rest, and you will spend the day in fasting. This is a permanent law for you.

2 Kings 4:23

  1. "Why today?" he asked. "It is neither a new moon festival nor a Sabbath." But she said, "It's all right."

Deuteronomy 14:3

  1. "You must not eat animals that are ceremonially unclean.
  2. These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
  3. the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.
  4. "Any animal that has split hooves and chews the cud may be eaten,
  5. but if the animal doesn't have both, it may not be eaten. So you may not eat the camel, the hare, or the rock badger. They chew the cud but do not have split hooves.

Nehemiah 8:9

  1. Then Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were interpreting for the people said to them, "Don't weep on such a day as this! For today is a sacred day before the LORD your God." All the people had been weeping as they listened to the words of the law.
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