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, after 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 to them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.

Thus saith the LORD, who giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who divideth the sea when its waves roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:

Even from the days of your fathers ye have gone away from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, In what shall we return?

Whoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.

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

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

Wherefore, if ye are dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,

Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.

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