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¶ But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.
¶ Of these things put [them] in remembrance, charging [them] before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, [but] to the subverting of the hearers.
But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself [rather] unto godliness.
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
But shun profane [and] vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine,
Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.
Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
¶ If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need [was there] that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.
¶ Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
For if that first [covenant] had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
In that he saith, A new [covenant], he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old [is] ready to vanish away.
But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope [did]; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
And though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For [it is] a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
And this I say, [that] the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though [it be] but a man's covenant, yet [if it be] confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.
¶ For the law having a shadow of good things to come, [and] not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
¶ Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
Which [was] a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
[Which stood] only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed [on them] until the time of reformation.
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