Quotes about Regulations

Of all the creatures that live in the water, you may eat anything with fins and scales,

but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales; it is unclean for you.

You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

No man with crushed or severed genitals may enter the assembly of the LORD.

They ministered with song before the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, until Solomon built the house of the LORD in Jerusalem. And they performed their duties according to the regulations given them.

This was their appointed order for service when they entered the house of the LORD, according to the regulations prescribed for them by their forefather Aaron, as the LORD, the God of Israel, had commanded him.

So Esther’s decree confirmed these regulations about Purim, which were written into the record.

The law, however, is not based on faith; on the contrary, “The man who does these things will live by them.”

If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations:

Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary.

They consist only in food and drink and special washings—external regulations imposed until the time of reform.

The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.