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 cloud: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.

Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the fixed order of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who divides the sea when its waves roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:

Even from the days of your fathers you have gone away from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, says the LORD of hosts. But you say, How shall we return?

Whosoever therefore resists the power, resists the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves judgment.

Now I praise you, brethren, because you remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.

Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;

Therefore if you be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are you subject to ordinances,

Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and an earthly sanctuary.

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