Hebrews 9:10

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Summary

Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.

In meats

Hebrews 13:9

Acts 10:13

Colossians 2:16

Divers

Hebrews 6:2

Carnal

Colossians 2:20

Until

Bible References

In meats

Do not be drawn aside by all sorts of strange teaching; for it is well to have the heart made stedfast through God's grace, and not by special kinds of food, from which those who scrupulously attend to them have derived no benefit.

and a voice came to him which said, "Rise, Peter, kill and eat."

Therefore suffer no one to sit in judgement on you as to eating or drinking or with regard to a festival, a new moon or a sabbath.

Divers

or of teaching about ceremonial washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and the last judgement.

Carnal

Now even the first Covenant had regulations for divine worship, and had also its sanctuary--a sanctuary belonging to this world.

and hold His office not in obedience to any temporary Law, but by virtue of an indestructible Life.

So we also, when spiritually we were children, were subject to the world's rudimentary notions, and were enslaved.

by setting aside the Law with its commandments, expressed, as they were, in definite decrees. His design was to unite the two sections of humanity in Himself so as to form one new man,

If you have died with Christ and have escaped from the world's rudimentary notions, why, as though your life still belonged to the world, do you submit to such precepts as

Until

It is not to angels that God has assigned the sovereignty of that coming world, of which we speak.

and have realized how good the word of God is and how mighty are the powers of the coming Age, and then fell away--

But, when the time was fully come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born subject to Law,

for the government of the world when the times are ripe for it--the purpose which He has cherished in His own mind of restoring the whole creation to find its one Head in Christ; yes, things in Heaven and things on earth, to find their one Head in Him.