'Rules' in the Bible

But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.

And he said to him, Why are you questioning me about what is good? One there is who is good: but if you have a desire to go into life, keep the rules of the law.

On these two rules all the law and the prophets are based.

Teaching them to keep all the rules which I have given you: and see, I am ever with you, even to the end of the world.

And the Pharisees and the scribes put the question to him, Why do your disciples not keep the rules of the fathers, but take their bread with unwashed hands?

But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.

For, turning away from the law of God, you keep the rules of men.

And he said to them, Truly you put on one side the law of God, so that you may keep the rules which have been handed down to you.

They were upright in the eyes of God, keeping all the rules and orders of God, and doing no wrong.

And he said, A curse is on you, teachers of the law! for while other men are crushed under the weight of the rules you make for them, you yourselves do not put so much as one finger to them.

For he has said in our hearing that this Jesus of Nazareth will put this place to destruction and make changes in the rules which were handed down to us by Moses.

And on their way through the towns, they gave them the rules which had been made by the Apostles and the rulers of the church at Jerusalem, so that they might keep them.

Teaching rules of living which it is not right for us to have or to keep, being Romans.

And they have had news of you, how you have been teaching all the Jews among the Gentiles to give up the law of Moses, and not to give circumcision to their children, and not to keep the old rules.

If those who have not circumcision keep the rules of the law, will it not be credited to them as circumcision?

See then that God is good but his rules are fixed: to those who were put away he was hard, but to you he has been good, on the condition that you keep in his mercy; if not, you will be cut off as they were.

So we, when we were young, were kept under the first rules of the world;

Having in his flesh put an end to that which made the division between us, even the law with its rules and orders, so that he might make in himself, of the two, one new man, so making peace;

If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders

(Rules which are all to come to an end with their use) after the orders and teaching of men?

And if a man takes part in a competition he does not get the crown if he has not kept the rules.

Giving no attention to the fictions of the Jews and the rules of men who have no true knowledge.

And though by this time it would be right for you to be teachers, you still have need of someone to give you teaching about the first simple rules of God's revelation; you have become like babies who have need of milk, and not of solid food.

Now the first agreement had its rules of worship, and a holy order.

Because they are only rules of the flesh, of meats and drinks and washings, which have their place till the time comes when things will be put right.

For when Moses had given all the rules of the law to the people, he took the blood of goats and young oxen, with water and red wool and hyssop, and put it on the book itself and on all the people,