Acts 15:10
Why then are you testing God, by putting on the neck of the disciples a yoke so hard that not even our fathers or we were strong enough for it?
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Acts 15:10
Why then are you testing God, by putting on the neck of the disciples a yoke so hard that not even our fathers or we were strong enough for it?
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Genesis 8:21
And when the sweet smell came up to the Lord, he said in his heart, I will not again put a curse on the earth because of man, for the thoughts of man's heart are evil from his earliest days; never again will I send destruction on all living things as I have done.
Psalms 14:3
They have all gone out of the way together; they are unclean, there is not one who does good, no, not one.
Romans 3:11
Not one who has the knowledge of what is right, not one who is a searcher after God;
1 John 5:19
We are certain that we are of God, but all the world is in the power of the Evil One.
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Exodus 16:2
And all the children of Israel were crying out against Moses and Aaron in the waste land:
Numbers 14:22
Because all these men, having seen my glory and the signs which I have done in Egypt and in the waste land, still have put me to the test ten times, and have not given ear to my voice;
Deuteronomy 6:16
Do not put the Lord your God to the test as you did in Massah.
Psalms 78:18
Testing God in their hearts, requesting meat for their desire.
Psalms 78:41
Again they put God to the test, and gave pain to the Holy One of Israel.
Psalms 78:56
But they were bitter against the Most High God, testing him, and not keeping his laws;
Psalms 95:10
For forty years I was angry with this generation, and said, They are a people whose hearts are turned away from me, for they have no knowledge of my ways;
Psalms 95:11
And I made an oath in my wrath, that they might not come into my place of rest.
Psalms 106:14
They gave way to their evil desires in the waste land, and put God to the test in the dry places.
Malachi 3:15
And now to us the men of pride seem happy; yes, the evil-doers are doing well; they put God to the test and are safe.
Luke 4:12
And Jesus made answer and said to him, It is said in the Writings, You may not put the Lord your God to the test.
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Leviticus 26:13
I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt so that you might not be servants to them; by me the cords of your yoke were broken and I made you go upright.
Isaiah 47:6
I was angry with my people, I put shame on my heritage, and gave them into your hands: you had no mercy on them; you put a cruel yoke on those who were old;
Isaiah 58:6
Is not this the holy day for which I have given orders: to let loose those who have wrongly been made prisoners, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the crushed go free, and every yoke be broken?
Jeremiah 28:13
Go and say to Hananiah, This is what the Lord has said: Yokes of wood have been broken by you, but in their place I will make yokes of iron.
Matthew 11:9
But why did you go out? to see a prophet? Yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet.
1 Corinthians 7:21
If you were a servant when you became a Christian, let it not be a grief to you; but if you have a chance to become free, make use of it.
1 Corinthians 7:22
For he who was a servant when he became a Christian is the Lord's free man; and he who was free when he became a Christian is the Lord's servant.
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Deuteronomy 28:65
And even among these nations there will be no peace for you, and no rest for your feet: but the Lord will give you there a shaking heart and wasting eyes and weariness of soul:
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Deuteronomy 28:66
Your very life will be hanging in doubt before you, and day and night will be dark with fears, and nothing in life will be certain:
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Deuteronomy 30:11
For these orders which I have given you today are not strange and secret, and are not far away.
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Deuteronomy 30:12
They are not in heaven, for you to say, Who will go up to heaven for us and give us knowledge of them so that we may do them?
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Song of Solomon 8:9
If she is a wall, we will make on her a strong base of silver; and if she is a door, we will let her be shut up with cedar-wood.
Ephesians 2:14
For he is our peace, who has made the two into one, and by whom the middle wall of division has been broken down,
Colossians 2:16
For this reason let no man be your judge in any question of food or drink or feast days or new moons or Sabbaths:
Colossians 2:18
Let no man take your reward from you by consciously making little of himself and giving worship to angels; having his thoughts fixed on the things which he has seen, being foolishly lifted up in his natural mind,
Colossians 2:19
And not joined to the Head, from whom all the body, being given strength and kept together through its joins and bands, has its growth with the increase of God.
Colossians 2:21
Which say there may be no touching, tasting, or taking in your hands,
Colossians 2:22
(Rules which are all to come to an end with their use) after the orders and teaching of men?
Hebrews 9:8
The Holy Spirit witnessing by this that the way into the holy place had not at that time been made open, while the first Tent was still in being;
Hebrews 9:11
But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things of the future, through this greater and better Tent, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this world,
1 Peter 1:18
Being conscious that you have been made free from that foolish way of life which was your heritage from your fathers, not through a payment of things like silver or gold which come to destruction,
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Nehemiah 3:5
Near them, the Tekoites were at work; but their chiefs did not put their necks to the work of their Lord.
Jeremiah 30:8
For it will come about on that day, says the Lord of armies, that his yoke will be broken off his neck, and his bands will be burst; and men of strange lands will no longer make use of him as their servant:
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Jeremiah 30:9
But they will be servants to the Lord their God and to David their king, whom I will give back to them.
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Lamentations 4:19
Those who went after us were quicker than the eagles of the heaven, driving us before them on the mountains, waiting secretly for us in the waste land.
Lamentations 5:5
Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest.
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Leviticus 18:5
So keep my rules and my decisions, which, if a man does them, will be life to him: I am the Lord.
Proverbs 3:17
Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.
Micah 6:8
He has made clear to you, O man, what is good; and what is desired from you by the Lord; only doing what is right, and loving mercy, and walking without pride before your God.
Matthew 23:23
A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make men give a tenth of all sorts of sweet-smelling plants, but you give no thought to the more important things of the law, righteousness, and mercy, and faith; but it is right for you to do these, and not to let the others be undone.
1 John 3:19
In this way we may be certain that we are true, and may give our heart comfort before him,
1 John 5:3
For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.
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Matthew 3:11
Truly, I give baptism with water to those of you whose hearts are changed; but he who comes after me is greater than I, whose shoes I am not good enough to take up: he will give you baptism with the Holy Spirit and with fire:
Matthew 16:19
I will give to you the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatever is fixed by you on earth will be fixed in heaven: and whatever you make free on earth will be made free in heaven.
Acts 15:31
And after reading it, they were glad of its comfort.
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Matthew 8:17
So that the word of Isaiah the prophet might come true: He himself took our pains and our diseases.
John 19:17
And he went out with his cross on him to the place which is named Dead Man's Head (in Hebrew, Golgotha):
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Matthew 16:1
And the Pharisees and Sadducees came and, testing him, made a request to him to give them a sign from heaven.
Matthew 16:2
But in answer he said to them, At nightfall you say, The weather will be good, for the sky is red.
Matthew 16:3
And in the morning, The weather will be bad today, for the sky is red and angry. You are able to see the face of heaven, but not the signs of the times.
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Luke 5:12
And it came about that while he was in one of the towns, there was a leper there: and when he saw Jesus he went down on his face in prayer to him, saying, Lord, if it is your pleasure, you have power to make me clean.
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John 6:6
This he said, testing him: for he had no doubt what he himself would do.
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John 6:45
The writings of the prophets say, And they will all have teaching from God. Everyone whose ears have been open to the teaching of the Father comes to me.
John 8:31
Then Jesus said to the Jews who had faith in him, If you keep my word, then you are truly my disciples;
John 8:36
If then the son makes you free, you will be truly free.
John 15:15
No longer do I give you the name of servants; because a servant is without knowledge of what his master is doing: I give you the name of friends, because I have given you knowledge of all the things which my Father has said to me.
Acts 15:5
But some of the Pharisees, who were of the faith, got up and said, It is necessary for these to have circumcision and to keep the law of Moses.
Acts 15:21
For Moses, from times long past, has his preachers in every town, reading his law in the Synagogues every Sabbath.
Acts 21:21
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.
Romans 8:15
For you did not get the spirit of servants again to put you in fear, but the spirit of sons was given to you, by which we say, Abba, Father.
Galatians 2:21
I do not make the grace of God of no effect: because if righteousness is through the law, then Christ was put to death for nothing.
Galatians 3:23
But before faith came, we were kept in prison under the law, waiting for the revelation of the faith which was to come.
Galatians 4:25
Now this Hagar is the mountain Sinai in Arabia, and is the image of the Jerusalem which now is: which is a servant with her children.
Galatians 4:31
So, brothers, we are not children of the servant-woman, but of the free woman.
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Acts 6:10
But they were not able to get the better of him, for his words were full of wisdom and of the Spirit.
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Acts 11:29
And the disciples, everyone as he was able, made a decision to send help to the brothers living in Judaea:
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Acts 12:17
But he made a sign to them with his hand to be quiet, and gave them an account of how the Lord had taken him out of prison. And he said, Give the news to James and the brothers. And then he went away.
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Acts 16:5
So the churches were made strong in the faith and were increased in number every day.
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Acts 16:7
And having come to Mysia, they made an attempt to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not let them;
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Acts 19:16
And the man in whom the evil spirit was, jumping on them, was stronger than the two of them, and overcame them, so that they went running from that house, wounded and without their clothing.
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Acts 21:35
And when he came on to the steps, he was lifted up by the armed men, because of the force of the people;
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Acts 25:7
And when he came, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem came round him, and made all sorts of serious statements against him, which were not supported by the facts.
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Acts 27:16
And, sailing near the side of a small island named Cauda, we were able, though it was hard work, to make the ship's boat safe:
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Deuteronomy 27:26
Cursed is he who does not take this law to heart to do it. And let all the people say, So be it.
John 1:17
For the law was given through Moses; grace and the true way of life are ours through Jesus Christ.
Romans 7:7
What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.
Romans 7:8
But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead.
Romans 7:14
For we are conscious that the law is of the spirit; but I am of the flesh, given into the power of sin.
Romans 8:7
Because the mind of the flesh is opposite to God; it is not under the law of God, and is not able to be:
Galatians 2:15
We being Jews by birth, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
Galatians 2:16
Being conscious that a man does not get righteousness by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ, we had faith in Christ Jesus, so that we might get righteousness by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law will no flesh get righteousness.
Galatians 3:24
So the law has been a servant to take us to Christ, so that we might have righteousness by faith.
Galatians 5:18
But if you are guided by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
Philippians 3:3
For we are the circumcision, who give worship to God and have glory in Jesus Christ, and have no faith in the flesh:
Hebrews 6:1
For this reason let us go on from the first things about Christ to full growth; not building again that on which it is based, that is, the turning of the heart from dead works, and faith in God,
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1 Corinthians 7:14
For the husband who has not faith is made holy through his Christian wife, and the wife who is not a Christian is made holy through the brother: if not, your children would be unholy, but now are they holy.
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1 Corinthians 7:35
Now I say this for your profit; not to make things hard for you, but because of what is right, and so that you may be able to give all your attention to the things of the Lord.
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Numbers 25:2
For they sent for the people to be present at the offerings made to their gods; and the people took part in their feasts and gave honour to their gods.
Acts 21:25
But as to the Gentiles who have the faith, we sent a letter, giving our decision that they were to keep themselves from offerings made to false gods, and from blood, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from the evil desires of the body.
1 Corinthians 8:1
Now about things offered to images: we all seem to ourselves to have knowledge. Knowledge gives pride, but love gives true strength.
1 Corinthians 8:10
For if a man sees you, who have knowledge, taking food as a guest in the house of an image, will it not give him, if he is feeble, the idea that he may take food offered to images?
1 Corinthians 10:19
Do I say, then, that what is offered to images is anything, or that the image is anything?
1 Corinthians 10:20
What I say is that the things offered by the Gentiles are offered to evil spirits and not to God; and it is not my desire for you to have any part with evil spirits.
1 Corinthians 10:21
It is not possible for you, at the same time, to take the cup of the Lord and the cup of evil spirits; you may not take part in the table of the Lord and the table of evil spirits.
1 Corinthians 10:22
Or may we be the cause of envy to the Lord? are we stronger than he?
1 Corinthians 10:28
But if anyone says to you, This food has been used as an offering, do not take it, on account of him who said it, and on account of his sense of right and wrong:
Revelation 2:14
But I have some things against you, because you have with you those who keep the teaching of Balaam, by whose suggestion Balak made the children of Israel go out of the right way, taking food which was offered to false gods, and going after the desires of the flesh.
Revelation 2:20
But I have this against you, that you let the woman Jezebel say she is a prophet and give false teaching, making my servants go after the desires of the flesh and take food offered to false gods.
Revelation 2:24
But to you I say, to the rest in Thyatira, even to those who have not this teaching, and have no knowledge of the secrets of Satan, as they say; I put on you no other weight.
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2 Corinthians 11:20
You put up with a man if he makes servants of you, if he makes profit out of you, if he makes you prisoners, if he puts himself in a high place, if he gives you blows on the face.
Galatians 3:14
So that on the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus; in order that we through faith might have the Spirit which God had undertaken to give.
Galatians 4:1
But I say that as long as the son is a child, he is in no way different from a servant, though he is lord of all;
Galatians 4:2
But is under keepers and managers till the time fixed by the father.
Galatians 4:21
Say, you whose desire it is to be under the law, do you not give ear to the law?
Hebrews 8:8
For, protesting against them, he says, See, the days are coming when I will make a new agreement with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah;
James 4:11
Do not say evil against one another, my brothers. He who says evil against his brother or makes himself his brother's judge, says evil against the law and is judging the law: and in judging the law you become, not a doer of the law but a judge.
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Isaiah 40:2
Say kind words to the heart of Jerusalem, crying out to her that her time of trouble is ended, that her punishment is complete; that she has been rewarded by the Lord's hand twice over for all her sins.
Galatians 1:7
Which is not another sort: only there are some who give you trouble, desiring to make changes in the good news of Christ.
Galatians 1:8
But even if we, or an angel from heaven, were to be a preacher to you of good news other than that which we have given you, let there be a curse on him.
Galatians 1:9
As we have said before, so say I now again, If any man is a preacher to you of any good news other than that which has been given to you, let there be a curse on him.
Galatians 1:10
Am I now using arguments to men, or God? or is it my desire to give men pleasure? if I was still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Galatians 2:5
To whom we gave way not even for an hour; so that the true words of the good news might still be with you.
Galatians 5:12
My desire is that they who give you trouble might even be cut off themselves.
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Matthew 20:12
Saying, These last have done only one hour's work, and you have made them equal to us, who have undergone the hard work of the day and the burning heat.
Luke 2:21
And when, after eight days, the time came for his circumcision, he was named Jesus, the name which the angel had given to him before his birth.
John 16:12
I have still much to say to you, but you are not strong enough for it now.
Acts 11:17
If then God gave them, when they had faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the same as he gave to us, who was I to go against God?
Romans 7:1
Is it not clear, my brothers (I am using an argument to those who have knowledge of the law), that the law has power over a man as long as he is living?
Romans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
Galatians 3:17
Now this I say: The law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, does not put an end to the agreement made before by God, so as to make the undertaking without effect.
Galatians 4:4
But when the time had come, God sent out his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
Galatians 4:5
That he might make them free who were under the law, and that we might be given the place of sons.
Galatians 5:2
See, I Paul say to you, that if you undergo circumcision, Christ will be of no use to you.
Galatians 5:11
But I, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still attacked? then has the shame of the cross been taken away.
Philippians 3:6
In bitter hate I was cruel to the church; I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail.
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Hebrews 13:25
May grace be with you all.
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