Hebrews 9:10

The Earthly Ministry Of The Old Covenant

⁹ for it is merely a symbol of the present time in connection with which gifts and sacrifices are repeatedly offered though they cannot make the conscience of the worshiper perfect, ¹⁰ since they deal only with food and drink and various washings, that is, with mere material regulations which are in force only until the time of setting things straight. ¹¹ But when Christ came as the High Priest of good things that have already taken place, He went by way of that greater and more perfect tent of worship, not made by human hands, that is, not belonging to this material creation,

Appointed Time

Better Covenant

In Me

Of the Flesh

Christ

Colossians 2:16

Stop letting anyone pass judgment on you in matters of eating and drinking, or in the matter of annual or monthly feasts or sabbaths.

Hebrews 7:16

who is appointed not on the basis of a physical qualification but on the basis of a power flowing from a life that cannot end.

Mark 7:4

and will never eat until they have carefully washed their hands, and they never eat anything brought from the market until they wash it; and they have many other religious practices which they got from their forefathers, as the washing of cups, pitchers, and pans.

Acts 10:13-15

A voice came to him, "Get up, Peter, kill something and eat it."

Galatians 4:3-4

So when we were spiritually under age, we were slaves to the world's crude notions,

Galatians 4:9

but now, since you have come to know God, or rather have come to be known by Him, how can you turn back to your own crude notions, so weak and worthless, and wish to become slaves to them again?

Ephesians 1:10

so that, at the coming of the climax of the ages, everything in heaven and on earth should be unified through Christ,

Ephesians 2:15

through His human nature He has put a stop to the hostility between us, namely, the law with its commands and decrees, in order to create one new humanity out of the two parties and so make peace through union with Himself, and in one body

Colossians 2:20-22

If once through fellowship with Christ you died and were separated from the world's crude notions, why do you live as though you belonged to the world? Why submit to rules such as,

Hebrews 2:5

For it was not to angels that He gave authority over that world to be, of which we are speaking.

Hebrews 6:2

of teaching about ceremonial washings and the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead and final judgment.

Hebrews 6:5

and have experienced how good God's message is and the mighty powers of the age to come,

Hebrews 9:1

So indeed the first covenant had its regulations for worship and its earthly sanctuary.

Hebrews 10:22

let us continue to draw near to God with sincere hearts and perfect faith; with our hearts cleansed from the sense of sin, and our bodies bathed in clean water;

Hebrews 13:9

You must stop being carried away with varied and strange teachings. For it is a good thing for the heart to be strengthened by God's spiritual strength, not by special kinds of food, from which those adhering to them have gotten no good.