Study Desk

But avoid foolish debates, genealogies, quarrels, and disputes about the law, because they are unprofitable and worthless.

Diligently help Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey, so that they will lack nothing.

you will roll them up like a cloak,and they will be changed like clothing.But you are the same,and your years will never end.

for 40 years. Therefore I was provoked with that generation and said, "They always go astray in their hearts, and they have not known My ways."

And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, if not to those who disobeyed?

and who have fallen away. This is because, to their own harm, they are recrucifying the Son of God and holding him up to contempt.

The sons of Levi who receive the priestly office have a command according to the law to collect a tenth from the people—that is, from their brothers and sisters—though they have also descended from Abraham.

For this is the covenantthat I will make with the house of Israelafter those days, says the Lord:I will put my laws into their mindsand write them on their hearts.I will be their God,and they will be my people.

And each person will not teach his fellow citizen,and each his brother or sister, saying, “Know the Lord,”because they will all know me,from the least to the greatest of them.

They are physical regulations and only deal with food, drink, and various washings imposed until the time of the new order.

Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come, and not the reality itself of those things, it can never perfect the worshipers by the same sacrifices they continually offer year after year.

Otherwise, wouldn’t they have stopped being offered, since the worshipers, purified once and for all, would no longer have any consciousness of sins?

These all died in faith, although they had not received the things that were promised. But they saw them from a distance, greeted them, and confessed that they were foreigners and temporary residents on the earth.

By faith Moses, after he was born, was hidden by his parents for three months, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they didn’t fear the king’s edict.

They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they died by the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, destitute, afflicted, and mistreated.

The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and on mountains, hiding in caves and holes in the ground.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, since they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account, so that they can do this with joy and not with grief, for that would be unprofitable for you.

You believe that God is one. Good! Even the demons believe—and they shudder.

And consider ships: Though very large and driven by fierce winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs.

What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from your passions that wage war within you?