For we have become companions of the Messiah if we hold firmly until the end the reality that we had at the start.

For they [the gifts, sacrifices, and ceremonies] deal only with [clean and unclean] food and drink and various ritual washings, [mere] external regulations for the body imposed [to help the worshipers] until the time of reformation [that is, the time of the new order when Christ will establish the reality of what these things foreshadow—a better covenant].

And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.