They do all their deeds to be seen by people, for they make their phylacteries wide and their tassels long.

For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.’

Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like this.”

For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.” (This means all foods are clean.)

You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not give false testimony, honor your father and mother.’”

this man, who was handed over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you executed by nailing him to a cross at the hands of Gentiles.

And we are witnesses of these events, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him.”

but that we should write them a letter telling them to abstain from things defiled by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.

They know, because they have known me from time past, if they are willing to testify, that according to the strictest party of our religion, I lived as a Pharisee.

For ignoring the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking instead to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.

What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was diligently seeking, but the elect obtained it. The rest were hardened,

I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my nation, and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my ancestors.

I beg you, brothers and sisters, become like me, because I have become like you. You have done me no wrong!

But just as at that time the one born by natural descent persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, so it is now.

For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery.

He has destroyed what was against us, a certificate of indebtedness expressed in decrees opposed to us. He has taken it away by nailing it to the cross.

But solid food is for the mature, whose perceptions are trained by practice to discern both good and evil.

For you have not come to something that can be touched, to a burning fire and darkness and gloom and a whirlwind

For the bodies of those animals whose blood the high priest brings into the sanctuary as an offering for sin are burned outside the camp.

I want you to recall both the predictions foretold by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles.