And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests in their vestments came forward with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the LORD, according to the directions of David king of Israel.

"We also take on ourselves the obligation to give yearly a third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:

In the pillar of the cloud he spoke to them; they kept his testimonies and the statute that he gave them.

Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar-- the LORD of hosts is his name:

From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts. But you say, 'How shall we return?'

Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.

Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you.

by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.

If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations--

Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly place of holiness.

but deal only with food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.