Quotes about Ordinance

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community

An oath, sir, is an end of all strife, and it is God's ordinance.

We cannot separate our submission to God's inherent authority from our submission to His delegated authority. All authority originates from Him! Hear what the Scripture admonishes: Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves. (Rom. 13:1—2)

Civil government is an ordinance of God, to conserve the civil peace of a people, so far as concerns their bodies and goods.

When Paul was exhorted to be baptized and to wash away his sins, there was an evident allusion to the use of water in the ordinance of baptism, and had there been no application of water on which to ground such an allusion, we may be certain that we should never have heard of washing away sins in baptism.

He presented the burnt offering and offered it according to the ordinance.

Day after day, from the first day to the last, Ezra read from the Book of the Law of God. The Israelites kept the feast for seven days, and on the eighth day they held an assembly, according to the ordinance.

This will be a statutory ordinance for you for the generations to come, wherever you live.

Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.

All the royal administrators, prefects, satraps, advisers, and governors have agreed that the king should establish an ordinance and enforce a decree that for thirty days anyone who petitions any god or man except you, O king, will be thrown into the den of lions.

And if his father has no brothers, give his inheritance to the next of kin from his clan, that he may take possession of it. This is to be a statutory ordinance for the Israelites, as the LORD has commanded Moses.’”

For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.