Parallel Verses

An Understandable Version

since, with foods and drinks and various [ceremonial] washings, they are only outward regulations imposed until the time when everything would be made right [i.e., under the New Agreement].

New American Standard Bible

since they relate only to food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until a time of reformation.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

They are physical regulations and only deal with food, drink, and various washings imposed until the time of restoration.

International Standard Version

since they deal only with food, drink, and various washings, which are required for the body until the time when things would be set right.

A Conservative Version

only in foods and drinks and various washings: carnal ordinances imposed until a time of reformation.

American Standard Version

being only (with meats and drinks and divers washings) carnal ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.

Amplified

For they [the gifts, sacrifices, and ceremonies] deal only with [clean and unclean] food and drink and various ritual washings, [mere] external regulations for the body imposed [to help the worshipers] until the time of reformation [that is, the time of the new order when Christ will establish the reality of what these things foreshadow—a better covenant].

Anderson New Testament

since he relies only on meats and drinks and various immersions, ordinances in deed of the flesh, which were imposed till the time of reformation.

Bible in Basic English

Because they are only rules of the flesh, of meats and drinks and washings, which have their place till the time comes when things will be put right.

Common New Testament

since they relate only to food and drink and various washings regulations for the flesh imposed until the time of reformation.

Daniel Mace New Testament

only in matters relating to meats and drinks, and divers baptisms, meer external rites which were to subsist only till the time of reformation.

Darby Translation

consisting only of meats and drinks and divers washings, ordinances of flesh, imposed until the time of setting things right.

Godbey New Testament

consisting only in meats and drinks, and divers baptisms, ordinances of the flesh, abiding until the time of restitution.

Goodspeed New Testament

since they have to do only with food and drink and various washings??aterial regulations in force only until the time for the new order.

John Wesley New Testament

Only with meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed till the time of reformation.

Julia Smith Translation

Only in food and drinks, and different immersions, and precepts of the flesh, being placed till the time of amendment.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

concerning [instead] only food and drink and different washings, regulations of outward things imposed until the time of setting [things] right.

Modern King James verseion

which stood only in meats and drinks, and different kinds of washings and fleshly ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

with meats only and drinks, and divers washings, and justifyings of the flesh, which were ordained until the time of reformation.

Moffatt New Testament

since they relate merely to food and drink and a variety of ablutions ??outward regulations for the body, that only hold till the period of the New Order.

Montgomery New Testament

since they consist only in meats and drinks and various ablutions, carnal ordinances, imposed until the time of reformation.

NET Bible

They served only for matters of food and drink and various washings; they are external regulations imposed until the new order came.

New Heart English Bible

but deal only with foods and drinks and various washings; they are regulations for the flesh imposed until the time of setting things right.

Noyes New Testament

being only ordinances pertaining to the flesh, which in addition to meats and drinks and divers washings are imposed until the time of reformation.

Sawyer New Testament

only in meats and drinks and different baptisms, and external ordinances, imposed till the time of reformation.

The Emphasized Bible

Only as to eatings, and drinkings, and diversified immersions, - righteous-appointments of the flesh, which, until a season of rectifying, are in force.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

as they consist only of meats, and drinks, and different ablutions, and corporal services, until the appointed time of perfect reformation.

Twentieth Century New Testament

the whole system being concerned only with food and drink and various ablutions--external ceremonials imposed until the coming of the New Order.

Webster

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

Weymouth New Testament

For their efficacy depends only on meats and drinks and various washings, ceremonies pertaining to the body and imposed until a time of reformation.

Williams New Testament

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.

World English Bible

being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.

Worrell New Testament

being only (with meats and drinks and various immersions) ordinances of the flesh, imposed until a time of reformation.

Worsley New Testament

relating only to meats and drinks, and different washings, and such carnal ordinances as were required till the time of reformation.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
μόνον 
Monon 
only, alone, but
Usage: 62

in
ἐπί 
Epi 
on, in, upon, unto, to,
Usage: 644

βρῶμα 
Broma 
Usage: 15

and





and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0
Usage: 0
Usage: 0

πόμα 
Poma 
Usage: 2

διάφορος 
Diaphoros 
Usage: 4

βαπτισμός 
Baptismos 
Usage: 3

σάρξ 
Sarx 
Usage: 130

δικαίωμα 
Dikaioma 
Usage: 10

ἐπίκειμαι 
Epikeimai 
press upon, be instant, lie, be laid thereon, lie on, be laid upon, be imposed on
Usage: 7

on them until
μέχρι μεχρίς 
mechri 
unto, until, till, to, till 9
Usage: 14

the time
καιρός 
Kairos 
Usage: 63

Context Readings

The Earthly Ministry Of The Old Covenant

9 [That Tabernacle] is symbolic of the present time, [indicating] that both gifts and [animal] sacrifices, which are offered [by the priests], are not able to give the worshiper a clear conscience 10 since, with foods and drinks and various [ceremonial] washings, they are only outward regulations imposed until the time when everything would be made right [i.e., under the New Agreement]. 11 But when Christ became the Head Priest of the good things that have come, He entered the greater and more complete Tabernacle, not made by hand, that is, not part of this creation [i.e., heaven, See 8:2].

Cross References

Colossians 2:16

So, do not allow anyone to judge [i.e., condemn] you for what you eat, or what you drink, or regarding [your non-observance of] a [yearly] festival, or a [monthly] "new moon" observance, or a [weekly] Sabbath day.

Hebrews 7:16

who was not appointed on the basis of human regulations governing one's physical ancestry, but on the strength of One whose life never ends.

Mark 7:4

And when they returned from the open shopping markets they refused to eat [anything] until they washed themselves [or "it," that is, the food, thoroughly]. There were also many other traditions which they [strictly] observed, like washing cups, pots and copper kettles [thoroughly].) [Note: The most accurate Greek manuscripts do not add "and beds" in this verse].

Acts 10:13-15

A voice then directed Peter with the words, "Get up; kill and eat [one of] them."

Galatians 4:3-4

So also, when we [Jews] were like children, we were under bondage to the basic worldly rules [of the law of Moses].

Galatians 4:9

But now that you have come to know God [as your Father], or rather, to be known by Him [as His children], how can you turn back again to the weak, cheap, elementary teachings [of the law of Moses], to which you [seem to] desire to become enslaved?

Ephesians 1:10

[He did this] to fulfill His plan at the proper time, by bringing together everything [in the universe] under Christ's headship --- things both in heaven and on earth.

Ephesians 2:15

by abolishing in His fleshly body the [entire Jewish] law of commandments contained in decrees. [This was] so that He could create in [unity with] Himself one new person [i.e., the church] out of the two peoples [i.e., Jews and Gentiles], thereby bringing about peace [between them].

Colossians 2:20-22

Since you died with Christ to the basic principles of the world, [then] why, as though you [still] lived in [harmony with] the world, do you submit yourselves to [its] rules, [such as]:

Hebrews 2:5

For God did not place the coming inhabited world [Note: "The coming inhabited world" here probably refers to the present Christian age. It was viewed as "coming" from the perspective of Old Testament times], under the control of angels [and] that is the world we are talking about.

Hebrews 6:2

and of teaching about immersions [Note: The use of the plural word here suggests teaching on the distinctions between Jewish washings and John's and Christian immersion, whether in water or the Holy Spirit. See Acts 19:1-7], and about placing hands on people [Note: This act was practiced in the appointment of church leaders, in healing sick people and to impart supernatural gifts], and about people being raised from the dead and about never ending judgment.

Hebrews 6:5

and who had experienced the good teaching of God and the powers of the coming age [i.e., they had already received some of the blessings of the Christian life, perhaps even miraculous signs].

Hebrews 9:1

Now even the first Agreement had regulations for [governing] service [to God] and an earthly sanctuary.

Hebrews 10:22

we should draw close [to God] with a sincere heart and a fully assured faith, having had our hearts sprinkled from a guilty conscience [See 9:13-14] and having had our bodies washed with clean water [i.e., in our immersion].

Hebrews 13:9

Do not continue to be swept off your course by all kinds of strange teachings. For it is good for your hearts to be strengthened by God's unearned favor [upon you] and not by [keeping regulations about] foods, which do not benefit those who observe them.

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