Author’s Paraphrase
Psalm 81:2–4 Sing as you play the tambourines and pleasant sounds of the stringed instruments. At the feasts, blow the trumpets for the new and full moons as decreed for Israel by the God of Jacob.
Romans 14:5 For another example, one man treats some days as being holy, while another person believes every day belongs to the Lord. Let each person be convinced in his own mind and behave accordingly.
Galatians 4:10–11 You celebrate holidays, the new moon, religious festivals, and other times of the year. I am concerned for you, wondering if my work among you had any value at all.
Colossians 2:16 Therefore, pay no attention to people’s judgment of what you should eat or drink, or whether you should respect what they regard as special days such as the new moon, holy days, or the Sabbath,
Hebrews 10:24–25 Look for ways to motivate people to do acts of kindness, always showing love. Don’t be like some who fail to regularly meet together. Encourage one another more and more as the day of the Lord’s return approaches.
King James
Psalm 81:2–4 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
Romans 14:5 One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
Galatians 4:10–11 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
Colossians 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
Hebrews 10:24–25 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
