If therefore you died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why do you practice ordinances as living in the world,??21 you shall not touch, you shall not taste, you shall not feel,??22 all which are to perish in the using??ccording to the commandments and instructions of men? Which have an appearance of wisdom in voluntary worship and humiliation, and in a rigorous treatment of the body, [which is held] in no respect for the surfeiting of the flesh.

Galatians 5:6

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails any thing nor uncircumcision, but faith which works by love. Verse Concepts

Galatians 6:15

For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation. Verse Concepts

Ephesians 2:15

the enmity, and abolished by his flesh the law of commandments [consisting] of ordinances, that of the two he might create in himself one new man, making peace, Verse Concepts

Colossians 2:14

having blotted out what was written by the hand in ordinances which was against us, and has taken it away from between [us], having nailed it to the cross; Verse Concepts

Hebrews 9:1

The first covenant then had ordinances of divine service and a worldly sanctuary. Verse Concepts

Isaiah 1:10-17

Hebrews 9:8-10

the Holy Spirit showing this, that the way into the sanctuary is not made manifest while the first tabernacle yet has a standing, which is a type of the time at hand, in which gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the worshipper as to the conscience, only in meats and drinks and different baptisms, and external ordinances, imposed till the time of reformation.

Prayer » Whose prayer the lord does not hear

Isaiah 1:10-15

Religion » Formalism » Warnings against

2 Timothy 3:5

having a form of piety but denying its power; and these avoid. Verse Concepts

Matthew 23:23

Colossians 2:20

Isaiah 29:13

Isaiah 58:2

Verse Concepts

Matthew 15:8

This people honors me with the lips, but their heart is far from me. Verse Concepts

Isaiah 1:13

Verse Concepts

Galatians 4:10-11

Do you observe days, and months, and times, and years? I am afraid of you, lest I have expended labor on you in vain.

Requirements » What the lord does not require

1 Samuel 15:22

Isaiah 1:10-14

Psalm 40:5-6

Sacrifice » The lord not desiring sacrifices

Hosea 6:6

Isaiah 1:10-14

Matthew 9:12-13

And hearing it he said, The well need not a physician, but the sick. Go and learn what this means: I wish for mercy and not a sacrifice; for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.

Psalm 40:5-6

Hebrews 10:1-9

For the law having a shadow of the good things that were to come, not the very likeness of the things, could not by the sacrifices which they offered continually every year perfect the offerers; if they could, would they not have ceased to be offered, because those serving would have had no longer a knowledge of sins, having been once purified? But in them there was a remembrance of sins, year by year; read more.
for it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. Wherefore, coming into the world, he says, A sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire, but a body didst thou prepare me. Whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou wast not pleased with; then I said, Behold, I come,??n the volume of the book it is written of me,??o do thy will, O God. Saying before, Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou didst not desire and wast not pleased with, which are offered according to the law, then he said, Behold, I come to do thy will. He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,