Thematic Bible: Ceremonialism

by abolishing in his flesh the hostility, which is the Law of commandments and ordinances, so that he might create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace, Verse Concepts

having canceled the certificate of debt, which stood against us with its decrees. He took what was hostile away from us, nailing it to the cross. Verse Concepts

On the one hand, a former commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness Verse Concepts

When he said, "A new covenant," he has made the first obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away. Verse Concepts

For since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices which are continually offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near. Verse Concepts

This phrase, "Yet once more," indicates the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, in order that what cannot be shaken may remain. Verse Concepts

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless elemental things? Do you desire to be enslaved all over again? Verse Concepts

When they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash themselves. And there are many other traditions which they observe, the washing of cups and pitchers and copper vessels.) Verse Concepts

Now therefore why do you test God by putting upon the neck of the disciples a yoke which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear? Verse Concepts

It was for freedom that Christ has set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery. Verse Concepts

If with Christ you died to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you still belonged to it, do you submit to regulations such as, Verse Concepts

since they relate only to food and drink and various washings regulations for the flesh imposed until the time of reformation. Verse Concepts