31 Bible Verses about Ritual

And when the days of their purification were fulfilled, according to the law of Moses, they carried him up into Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord, as it was written in the law of the Lord; That every male opening the womb shall be called holy to the Lord; and to offer a sacrifice according to that which has been written in the law of the Lord, a pair of turtle-doves, or two young pigeons.

And a leper comes to Him, entreating Him, and bowing the knee to Him, and saying to Him, That if thou mayest be willing, thou art able to cleanse me. And Jesus being moved with compassion, reaching forth His hand, touched him, and says to him, I will; be thou cleansed. And He speaking, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed.read more.
And charging him, He immediately sent him away, and says to him, See that you may speak nothing to any one: but go, show thyself unto the priest, and offer for thy cleansing those things which Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.

And behold, a leper, having come, continued to worship Him, saying; Lord, if you may be willing, you are able to cleanse me. And Jesus, reaching forth His hand, touched him, saying, I am willing; be thou cleansed. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. And Jesus says to him, See that you may tell no one; but go, show thyself to the priest, and offer the gift which Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.

And it came to pass, while He was in one of the cities, and behold, there is a man full of leprosy: and seeing Jesus, having fallen on his face, he prayed to Him, saying, Lord, if you may will it, you are able to cleanse me. And reaching out His hand, He touched him, saying, I will; be thou cleansed. And immediately the leprosy departed from him. And He commanded him to tell no one: but having gone away, show thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing, as Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.

but to command them to abstain from things offered to idols, and from fornication, and from strangulation, and from blood.

And the Pharisees, seeing, said to Him, Behold thy disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.

And the Pharisees continued to say to Him, Behold what they are doing on the Sabbath, which is not lawful.

And certain ones of the Pharisees said to them, Why are you doing that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath?

For circumcision indeed profits, if you do the law: but if you be a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

And Jesus said, Are you indeed still without understanding? Do you know that everything entering into the mouth goes into the stomach, and is cast out into excrement? But those things going out from the mouth come forth from the heart; and these pollute the man.read more.
For out of the heart proceed evil reasonings, murders, fornications, adulteries, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies. These are the things which defile the man: but to eat bread with unwashed hands does not defile the man.

And He says to them, Are you still without understanding? Do you not know that everything external entering into a man is not able to defile him? Because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and is cast out into the excrement, purifying all edibles. And He said, Everything proceeding out from the man, that defiles the man.read more.
For within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil reasonings, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, impurity, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, folly. All these evils proceed out from within, and defile the man.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you purify the exterior of the cup and the plate, and within they are full of extortion and impurity.

For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly; neither is circumcision that which is outwardly in the flesh. But he is a Jew, who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

But meat will not commend us to God; neither if we eat are we the better; nor if we eat not are we the worse.

which things are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is of Christ.

And He said to them, The Sabbath was made for the sake of man, and not man for the sake of the Sabbath. So the Son of man is also Lord of the Sabbath.

in whom you are also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of depravity, in the circumcision of Christ;

For the law having the shadow of good things to come, not the real image of the things, annually with the same sacrifices which they offer continually, is by no means able to make perfect those coming to it: since in that case would they not have ceased being offered, because the worshipers having once been purified would have had no more conscience of sins? But in the same sacrifices there is a remembrance of sins annually;

consisting only in meats and drinks, and divers baptisms, ordinances of the flesh, abiding until the time of restitution.

Because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and is cast out into the excrement, purifying all edibles.

And on the following day, they traveling, and drawing nigh the city, Peter went up on the house to pray about the sixth hour. And he became hungry, and wished to eat: but they getting it ready, an ecstasy came on him, and he saw the heaven open, and a certain vessel like a great sheet came down, and resting upon the earth with four rope ends:read more.
in which were all quadrupeds, and creeping things of the earth, and birds of the heaven. And a voice came to him, Arising, Peter, slay, and eat. And Peter said, By no means, Lord, because I never was in the habit of eating anything unconsecrated and unclean. And the voice again the second time came to him, Whatsoever things God has cleansed, do not count unclean;

But now we have been made free from the law, being dead in that in which we were held; so that we serve in the newness of the spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: except to him who considers it unclean, to him it is unclean.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision or uncircumcision avails anything; but faith working through divine love.

for neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.

having destroyed the law of commandments in ordinances, through his flesh, the enmity, in order that He might create the two in himself into one new man, making peace;

and you, being dead in trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your depravity, has he created life in you along with himself, having forgiven us all transgressions, having blotted out the handwriting which was against us in ordinances, which was antagonistical to us: and took it out from the midst, having nailed it to the cross; having destroyed governments and authorities, he made a public exhibition of them triumphing over them on it.read more.
Therefore let no one judge you in meat, or in drink, or in the participation of a feast, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath: