And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the LORD, according to the ordinance of David, king of Israel.

Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God,

He spoke unto them in the pillar of fire; they kept his testimonies and the order that he gave them.

Thus hath the LORD said, who gives the sun for light by day, and the laws of the moon and of the stars for light by night, who divides the sea and the waves thereof roar; The LORD of the hosts is his name;

Even from the days of your fathers, ye had departed from my ordinances and had never kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, said the LORD of the hosts. But ye said, In what shall we return?

Whosoever therefore resists the power, resists the ordinance of God, and those that resist shall receive condemnation to themselves.

Now I praise you, brothers, that ye remember me in all things and retain my instructions the same as I spoke unto you.

blotting out the bill of the decrees that was against us, which was contrary to us and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross ,

For if ye are dead with the Christ to the elements of the world, why, as though living unto the world, do ye decree rites,

Nevertheless the first had its justifications of worship and its worldly sanctuary.

but in foods and drinks and different washings and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of correction.