And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests stood in their array, with trumpets, and the Levites, the children of Asaph, with cymbals; to praise the LORD, after the manner of David, king of Israel.

And we decreed a statute upon ourselves, to give yearly the third part of a sicle to the ministration in the house of our God,

He spake unto them out of the cloudy pillar; for they kept his testimonies, and the law that he gave them.

"Thus sayeth the LORD which gave the sun to be a light for the day, and the moon and stars to shine in the night: which moveth the sea, so that the floods thereof wax fierce: his name is the LORD of Hosts.

"Ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and since the time of your forefathers have ye not kept them. Turn you now unto me, and I will turn me unto you, sayeth the LORD of Hosts. Ye say, 'Wherein shall we turn?'

Whosoever therefore resisteth power, resisteth the ordinance of God. And they that resist, shall receive to themselves damnation.

I commend you brethren that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances even as I delivered them to you.

and hath put out the handwriting that was against us, contained in the law written, and that hath he taken out of the way, and hath fastened it to his cross,

Wherefore, if ye be dead with Christ from ordinances of the world: Why as though ye yet lived in the world, are ye led with traditions of them that say

That first tabernacle verily had ordinances and servings of God, and worldly holiness.

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