When the builders established the Lord's temple, the priests, ceremonially attired and with their clarions, and the Levites (the sons of Asaph) with their cymbals, stood to praise the Lord according to the instructions left by King David of Israel.

We accept responsibility for fulfilling the commands to give one third of a shekel each year for the work of the temple of our God,

He spoke to them from a pillar of cloud; they obeyed his regulations and the ordinance he gave them.

The Lord has made a promise to Israel. He promises it as the one who fixed the sun to give light by day and the moon and stars to give light by night. He promises it as the one who stirs up the sea so that its waves roll. He promises it as the one who is known as the Lord who rules over all.

From the days of your ancestors you have ignored my commandments and have not kept them! Return to me, and I will return to you," says the Lord who rules over all. "But you say, 'How should we return?'

So the person who resists such authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will incur judgment

I praise you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions just as I passed them on to you.

He has destroyed what was against us, a certificate of indebtedness expressed in decrees opposed to us. He has taken it away by nailing it to the cross.

If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits of the world, why do you submit to them as though you lived in the world?

Now the first covenant, in fact, had regulations for worship and its earthly sanctuary.

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