31 Bible Verses about Ritual

And when the days of their purification were completed according to the law of Moses, they carried him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord, as it is written in the law of the Lord that every male which is a first born shall be called holy to the Lord, and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtle doves, or two young pigeons.

And a leper came to him beseeching him, saying to him, If you will, you can cleanse me. And having compassion on him, he stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, I will; be cleansed. And the leprosy immediately left him, and he was cleansed.read more.
And giving him a strict charge, he immediately sent him away, and said to him, See that you say nothing to any one, but go and show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.

and behold, a leper came and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if you will, you can cleanse me. And stretching out his hand, he touched him, saying, I will; be cleansed; and his leprosy was immediately cleansed. And Jesus said to him, See that you tell no man, but go and show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift which Moses commanded for a testimony to them.

And he was in one of the cities, and behold, a man full of leprosy; and seeing Jesus he fell on his face, and asked him, saying, Lord, if you will, you can cleanse me. And stretching out his hand he touched him, saying, I will; be cleansed. And immediately the leprosy left him. And he charged him to tell no one, but go and show yourself to the priest, and present an offering for your purification, as Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.

but to send to them to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and fornication, and things strangled, and blood.

And the Pharisees seeing it, said to him, Behold, your disciples do what it is not lawful to do on the sabbath.

And the Pharisees said to him, See what they do on the sabbath, which it is not lawful to do.

And some of the Pharisees said, Why do you do what is not lawful on the sabbath?

For circumcision indeed is profitable if you perform the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.

And he said, Are you so entirely without understanding? Do you not understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach, and is cast out on the earth? But the things which proceed from the mouth come from the heart, and these defile the man.read more.
For from the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies: these are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.

And he said to them, Are you also so without understanding? Do you not understand that nothing which enters into a man from without can defile him, because it enters not into his heart, but into the stomach, and goes out to the earth, purifying all aliments? But he said, that which comes out of the man, this defiles him;read more.
for from within, from the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, covetousness, malice, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these evil things proceed from within, and defile the man.

Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and platter, but within they are full of plunder and excess.

For not that which is external is the Jew, nor is that which is external in the flesh circumcision. But that which is in secret is the Jew, and circumcision of the heart is in the spirit not in the writing, the commendation of which is not of men but of God.

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping God's commandments.

But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat not are we worse, nor if we eat are we better.

which are a shadow of things that were to come; but the body is Christ's.

And he said to them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath; so that the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath.

in whom you are also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, with the putting off of the body of the flesh, with the circumcision of Christ,

For the law having a shadow of the good things that were to come, not the very likeness of the things, could not by the sacrifices which they offered continually every year perfect the offerers; if they could, would they not have ceased to be offered, because those serving would have had no longer a knowledge of sins, having been once purified? But in them there was a remembrance of sins, year by year;

only in meats and drinks and different baptisms, and external ordinances, imposed till the time of reformation.

because it enters not into his heart, but into the stomach, and goes out to the earth, purifying all aliments?

And on the next day, as they were pursuing their journey and had come nigh to the city, Peter went upon the house to pray, about the sixth hour. And he was hungry and wished to eat; and while they were preparing a trance came upon him, and he beheld heaven opened, and a certain vessel like a great sheet descending, let down by four corners to the earth,read more.
in which were all the quadrupeds and reptiles of the earth, and birds of heaven. And a voice came to him, Arise, Peter, kill and eat. But Peter said, By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten any thing common and impure. And a voice came to him again, a second time, What God has purified, regard not common.

but now we are released from the law by which we were held having died, that we should serve [God] in newness of spirit, not in the old age of a writing.

I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is defiled in itself, except to him that thinks any thing to be defiled; to him it is defiled.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails any thing nor uncircumcision, but faith which works by love.

For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

the enmity, and abolished by his flesh the law of commandments [consisting] of ordinances, that of the two he might create in himself one new man, making peace,

and you being dead in sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he has made you alive with him, having forgiven us all sins, having blotted out what was written by the hand in ordinances which was against us, and has taken it away from between [us], having nailed it to the cross; [and] having subjugated principalities and powers, he made a public exhibition of them, leading them in triumph by it.read more.
Let no man therefore judge you in eating and in drinking, or in respect to a feast, or new moon, or sabbath,