For God achieved what the law could not do because<n id="1" /> it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

What I am saying is this: The law that came four hundred thirty years later does not cancel a covenant previously ratified by God,<n id="1" /> so as to invalidate the promise.

when he nullified<n id="1" /> in his flesh the law of commandments in decrees. He did this to create in himself one new man<n id="2" /> out of two,<n id="3" /> thus making peace,

And those of the sons of Levi who receive the priestly office<n id="1" /> have authorization according to the law to collect a tithe from the people, that is, from their fellow countrymen,<n id="2" /> although they too are descendants of Abraham.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable, by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, to perfect those who come to worship.<n id="1" />

&#8220;<i><b>This is the covenant that I will establish with them after those daysb>, <b>says the Lordb>. <b>I will putb>i><n id="1" /> <b><i>my laws on their hearts and I will inscribe them on their mindsi>b>,&#8221;<n id="2" />

But the one who peers into the perfect law of liberty and fixes his attention there,<n id="1" /> and does not become a forgetful listener but one who lives it out &#8211; he<n id="2" /> will be blessed in what he does.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Woe to you, experts in the law<n id="1" /> and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You give a tenth<n id="2" /> of mint, dill, and cumin,<n id="3" /> yet you neglect what is more important in the law &#8211; justice, mercy, and faithfulness! You<n id="4" /> should have done these things without neglecting the others.

<p class="bodytext">Then the crowd responded,<n id="1" /> &#8220;We have heard from the law that <i>the Christi><n id="2" /> <i>will remain foreveri>.<n id="3" /> How<n id="4" /> can you say, &#8216;The Son of Man must be lifted up&#8217;? Who is this Son of Man?&#8221;

shouting, &#8220;Men of Israel,<n id="1" /> help! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people, our law,<n id="2" /> and this sanctuary!<n id="3" /> Furthermore<n id="4" /> he has brought Greeks into the inner courts of the temple<n id="5" /> and made this holy place ritually unclean!&#8221;<n id="6" />

&#8220;I am a Jew,<n id="1" /> born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up<n id="2" /> in this city, educated with strictness<n id="3" /> under<n id="4" /> Gamaliel<n id="5" /> according to the law of our ancestors,<n id="6" /> and was<n id="7" /> zealous<n id="8" /> for God just as all of you are today.

<p class="bodytext">They set<n id="1" /> a day to meet with him,<n id="2" /> and they came to him where he was staying<n id="3" /> in even greater numbers.<n id="4" /> From morning until evening he explained things<n id="5" /> to them,<n id="6" /> testifying<n id="7" /> about the kingdom of God<n id="8" /> and trying to convince<n id="9" /> them about Jesus from both the law of Moses and the prophets.

<p class="otpoetry">&#8220;<i><b>For this is the covenant that I will establish with the house of Israel after those daysb>, <b>says the Lordb>. <b>I will putb>i><n id="1" /> <b><i>my laws in their mindsi>b><n id="2" /> <i><b>and I will inscribe them on their heartsb>. <b>And I will be their God and they will be my peopleb>.i><n id="3" />p>

For when Moses had spoken every command to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats with water and scarlet wool and hyssop and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,