'Customs' in the Bible
For we have heard him saying that Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us."
and are advocating customs that are not lawful for us to accept or practice, since we are Romans."
They have been informed about you -- that you teach all the Jews now living among the Gentiles to abandon Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or live according to our customs.
because you are especially familiar with all the customs and controversial issues of the Jews. Therefore I ask you to listen to me patiently.
After three days Paul called the local Jewish leaders together. When they had assembled, he said to them, "Brothers, although I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our ancestors, from Jerusalem I was handed over as a prisoner to the Romans.