Thematic Bible: False religion, characteristics of

but now, since you have come to know God, or rather have come to be known by Him, how can you turn back to your own crude notions, so weak and worthless, and wish to become slaves to them again? Verse Concepts

and will never eat until they have carefully washed their hands, and they never eat anything brought from the market until they wash it; and they have many other religious practices which they got from their forefathers, as the washing of cups, pitchers, and pans. Verse Concepts

Then why do you now try to test God by putting on these disciples' necks a yoke which neither our forefathers nor we could bear? Verse Concepts

This is the freedom with which Christ has made us free. So keep on standing in it, and stop letting your necks be fastened in the yoke of slavery again. Verse Concepts

If once through fellowship with Christ you died and were separated from the world's crude notions, why do you live as though you belonged to the world? Why submit to rules such as, Verse Concepts

since they deal only with food and drink and various washings, that is, with mere material regulations which are in force only until the time of setting things straight. Verse Concepts

Thematic Bible: False religion, characteristics of

Thematic Bible

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