Thematic Bible: False religion, characteristics of


Thematic Bible



and now, having known God -- and rather being known by God -- how turn ye again unto the weak and poor elements to which anew ye desire to be in servitude?

and, coming from the market-place, if they do not baptize themselves, they do not eat; and many other things there are that they received to hold, baptisms of cups, and pots, and brazen vessels, and couches.

now, therefore, why do ye tempt God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?


If, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances?

only in victuals, and drinks, and different baptisms, and fleshly ordinances -- till the time of reformation imposed upon them.