Hebrews 9:1

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,

Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,

For Christ hasn’t entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;

You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.

It must be eaten in one house. You shall not carry any of the meat outside of the house. Do not break any of its bones.

Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.

I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.

and so cause them to bear the iniquity that brings guilt when they eat their holy things; for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.’ ”

I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.”

He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.

Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.

He said to them, “You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”

You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner shall eat of it,

They shall be on Aaron and on his sons, when they go in to the Tent of Meeting, or when they come near to the altar to minister in the holy place, that they don’t bear iniquity, and die. This shall be a statute forever to him and to his offspring after him.

I will set my tent among you, and my soul won’t abhor you.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.

For these things happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled, “A bone of him will not be broken.”

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Let no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

Now if perfection was through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

“ ‘Don’t defile yourselves in any of these things; for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.

You shall walk in all the way which Yahweh your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for Yahweh’s glory filled Yahweh’s house.

As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed, when you receive your sisters, your elder sisters and your younger; and I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant.

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

They don’t eat when they come from the marketplace unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)

Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews’ way of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece.

For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world.”

In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel that are of Israel.

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

And again, “The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless.”

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

(all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?

to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life;

By faith, he kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them.

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

It shall be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall make holy in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always on his forehead, that they may be accepted before Yahweh.

“Bezalel and Oholiab shall work with every wise-hearted man, in whom Yahweh has put wisdom and understanding to know how to do all the work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that Yahweh has commanded.”

You shall not walk in the customs of the nation which I am casting out before you; for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

You shall put both male and female outside of the camp so that they don’t defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell.”

Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the Tent of Meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the ax.

He will speak words against the Most High, and will wear out the saints of the Most High. He will plan to change the times and the law; and they will be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.

Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for, behold, I come, and I will dwell within you,’ says Yahweh.

Yahweh says: “I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the middle of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called ‘The City of Truth;’ and the mountain of Yahweh of Armies, ‘The Holy Mountain.’ ”

But Jesus, answering, said to him, “Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed him.

but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

Now a vessel full of vinegar was set there; so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop, and held it at his mouth.

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

You who glory in the law, do you dishonor God by disobeying the law?

Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the revelations of God.

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

a servant of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.

For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.

You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two door posts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.

Therefore you shall keep my requirements, that you do not practice any of these abominable customs which were practiced before you, and that you do not defile yourselves with them. I am Yahweh your God.’ ”

“ ‘They shall therefore follow my commandment, lest they bear sin for it and die in it, if they profane it. I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.

They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it. According to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep it.

The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.

If they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the form of the house, and its fashion, and its exits, and its entrances, and all its forms, and all its ordinances, and all its forms, and all its laws; and write it in their sight; that they may keep the whole form of it, and all its ordinances, and do them.

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.

In that he says, “A new covenant”, he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.

being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.