Thematic Bible: Bondage of
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Israel » A type of the apostate church when disobedient » Bondage of
During that long period of time the king of Egypt died, and the Israelites groaned because of the slave labor. They cried out, and their desperate cry because of their slave labor went up to God.
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So they put foremen over the Israelites to oppress them with hard labor. As a result they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.
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In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and observed their hard labor, and he saw an Egyptian man attacking a Hebrew man, one of his own people.
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The king of Egypt said to them, "Moses and Aaron, why do you cause the people to refrain from their work? Return to your labor!"
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how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.
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He caused them to hate his people, and to mistreat his servants.
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But God spoke as follows: 'Your descendants will be foreigners in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years.
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Law » Bondage of » In the heart
I want to do what pleases you, my God. Your law dominates my thoughts."
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They show that the work of the law is written in their hearts, as their conscience bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or else defend them,
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"For this is the covenant that I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and I will inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God and they will be my people.
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I will make a lasting covenant with them that I will never stop doing good to them. I will fill their hearts and minds with respect for me so that they will never again turn away from me.
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revealing that you are a letter of Christ, delivered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets but on tablets of human hearts.
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The law of their God controls their thinking; their feet do not slip.
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"But I will make a new covenant with the whole nation of Israel after I plant them back in the land," says the Lord. "I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts and minds. I will be their God and they will be my people.
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For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.
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"This is the covenant that I will establish with them after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws on their hearts and I will inscribe them on their minds,"
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Law » Bondage of » Despised
Hear this, you peoples of the earth: 'Take note! I am about to bring disaster on these people. It will come as punishment for their scheming. For they have paid no attention to what I have said, and they have rejected my law.
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Therefore, as flaming fire devours straw, and dry grass disintegrates in the flames, so their root will rot, and their flower will blow away like dust. For they have rejected the law of the Lord who commands armies, they have spurned the commands of the Holy One of Israel.
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For these are rebellious people -- they are lying children, children unwilling to obey the Lord's law.
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But they mocked God's messengers, despised his warnings, and ridiculed his prophets. Finally the Lord got very angry at his people and there was no one who could prevent his judgment.
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You have destroyed my people by failing to acknowledge me! Because you refuse to acknowledge me, I will reject you as my priests. Because you reject the law of your God, I will reject your descendants.
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The Lord answered, "This has happened because these people have rejected my laws which I gave them. They have not obeyed me or followed those laws.
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They did not keep their covenant with God, and they refused to obey his law.
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This is what the Lord says: "Because Judah has committed three covenant transgressions -- make that four! -- I will not revoke my decree of judgment. They rejected the Lord's law; they did not obey his commands. Their false gods, to which their fathers were loyal, led them astray.
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He also said to them, "You neatly reject the commandment of God in order to set up your tradition.
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Law » Bondage of » Book of the
"Take this scroll of the law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God. It will remain there as a witness against you,
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This law scroll must not leave your lips! You must memorize it day and night so you can carefully obey all that is written in it. Then you will prosper and be successful.
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Hilkiah the high priest informed Shaphan the scribe, "I found the law scroll in the Lord's temple." Hilkiah gave the scroll to Shaphan and he read it.
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The king went up to the Lord's temple, accompanied by all the people of Judah, all the residents of Jerusalem, the priests, and the prophets. All the people were there, from the youngest to the oldest. He read aloud all the words of the scroll of the covenant that had been discovered in the Lord's temple.
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They taught throughout Judah, taking with them the scroll of the law of the Lord. They traveled to all the cities of Judah and taught the people.
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They read from the book of God's law, explaining it and imparting insight. Thus the people gained understanding from what was read.
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For all who rely on doing the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the book of the law."
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Law » Bondage of » Mosaic
And he revealed to you the covenant he has commanded you to keep, the ten commandments, writing them on two stone tablets.
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God spoke all these words:
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Now the tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
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So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
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You must not have any other gods besides me.
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The Lord then wrote on the tablets the same words, the ten commandments, which he had spoken to you at the mountain from the middle of the fire at the time of that assembly, and he gave them to me.
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There, in the presence of the Israelites, Joshua inscribed on the stones a duplicate of the law written by Moses.
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Law » Bondage of » The public reading of
On that day the book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people. They found written in it that no Ammonite or Moabite may ever enter the assembly of God,
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The king went up to the Lord's temple, accompanied by all the people of Judah, all the residents of Jerusalem, the priests, and the prophets. All the people were there, from the youngest to the oldest. He read aloud all the words of the scroll of the covenant that had been discovered in the Lord's temple.
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Joshua read aloud every commandment Moses had given before the whole assembly of Israel, including the women, children, and resident foreigners who lived among them.
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So he read it before the plaza in front of the Water Gate from dawn till noon before the men and women and those children who could understand. All the people were eager to hear the book of the law.
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Ezra read in the book of the law of God day by day, from the first day to the last. They observed the festival for seven days, and on the eighth day they held an assembly as was required.
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when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God in the place he chooses, you must read this law before them within their hearing.
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So you go there the next time all the people of Judah come in from their towns to fast in the Lord's temple. Read out loud where all of them can hear you what I told you the Lord said, which you wrote in the scroll.
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Law » Bondage of » Ceremonial abolished in Christ
when he nullified in his flesh the law of commandments in decrees. He did this to create in himself one new man out of two, thus making peace,
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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.
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On the one hand a former command is set aside because it is weak and useless,
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When he speaks of a new covenant, he makes the first obsolete. Now what is growing obsolete and aging is about to disappear.
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For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable, by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, to perfect those who come to worship.
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Now this phrase "once more" indicates the removal of what is shaken, that is, of created things, so that what is unshaken may remain.
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Law » Bondage of » Purpose of
Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the descendant to whom the promise had been made. It was administered through angels by an intermediary.
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realizing that law is not intended for a righteous person, but for lawless and rebellious people, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers,
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Thus the law had become our guardian until Christ, so that we could be declared righteous by faith.
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For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
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Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,
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What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said, "Do not covet."
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Law » Bondage of » Insufficient
for the law made nothing perfect. On the other hand a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.
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For God achieved what the law could not do because it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
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when he nullified in his flesh the law of commandments in decrees. He did this to create in himself one new man out of two, thus making peace,
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For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God.
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Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God.
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Law » Bondage of » Perfection of the divine
For we know that the law is spiritual -- but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.
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So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.
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The law of the Lord is perfect and preserves one's life. The rules set down by the Lord are reliable and impart wisdom to the inexperienced.
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But we know that the law is good if someone uses it legitimately,
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Your justice endures, and your law is reliable.
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Law » Bondage of » Keeping of encouraged
The one who keeps the law is a discerning child, but a companion of gluttons brings shame to his parents.
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Only may the Lord give you insight and understanding when he places you in charge of Israel, so you may obey the law of the Lord your God.
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Be very strong! Carefully obey all that is written in the law scroll of Moses so you won't swerve from it to the right or the left,
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It must be with him constantly and he must read it as long as he lives, so that he may learn to revere the Lord his God and observe all the words of this law and these statutes and carry them out.
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Law » Bondage of » Impartiality of
If a resident foreigner lives among you and wants to keep the Passover to the Lord, he must do so according to the statute of the Passover, and according to its custom. You must have the same statute for the resident foreigner and for the one who was born in the land.'"
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The same law will apply to the person who is native-born and to the foreigner who lives among you."
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There will be one regulation for you, whether a foreigner or a native citizen, for I am the Lord your God.'"
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One law and one custom must apply to you and to the resident foreigner who lives alongside you.'"
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