Ordinance: Insufficiency of, for Salvation
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Isaiah 1:10–17
Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah! / “What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats. / When you come to appear before Me, who has required this of you—this trampling of My courts?
Galatians 5:6
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.
Galatians 6:15
For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything. What counts is a new creation.
Ephesians 2:15
by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. He did this to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace
Colossians 2:14, 20–23
having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross! / 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: / Such restrictions indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-prescribed worship, their false humility, and their harsh treatment of the body; but they are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.
Hebrews 9:1
Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary.