Corban

The Truth About Corban

Corban is one of the misunderstood words of the Bible by Modern Christians. It was at the core of Jesus's conflict with the Pharisees and eventually the Christian conflict with Rome.

Rome had its own system of Qorban which had changed from its early days as a republic to something that brought in corruption and despotism. The free bread of Rome would bring its downfall because it weakened the moral fabric of society.

What was Corban really about and are there different types of corban?

And more important do we have a form of Corban today, and is it in conformity with Christ, or with the Pharisees?

Jesus said if the Pharisees knew Moses they would have known him.^[1] Do Modern Christians know Jesus or are they under a strong delusion?^[2] Jesus warned that many people would think they believed and served Christ but they actually were workers of iniquity.^[3]

Jesus said he would take the kingdom^[4] from the Pharisees because they were not bearing fruit, which He did by their own mouth,^[5] and appointed to another who would, Which He did^[6] as He said he would do^[7].

"Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage." (Galatians 5:1)

Peter warned in 2 Peter 2:14,

"Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; curse children:" and in 2 Peter 2:3 "And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not."

Paul warned in 1 Corinthians 6:9 "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,".

We were warned that men would creep and deceive many leading them away with foolish doctrines.^[8]

The term offering or "freewill offering" as found in the Torah in relation to the worship of Ancient Israel is mainly represented by the Hebrew noun korban (קָרְבָּן) which we see as Corban κορβαν in the New Testament.

"But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, [It is] Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; [he shall be free]." (Mark 7:11)

The same word is also translated "treasury" in Matthew 27:6,

"And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood."

This is a very misunderstood word because the Pharisees and other groups of Judea had twisted the purpose of this ancient form of worship. Worship was never meant to be a pattern of mindless rituals, mumbo-jumbo repetition of words, chants, or incantations.^[9]

The Hebrew word qorban ןברק appears some 82 times in the Old Testament and is translated offering 68, oblation 12, offered 1, sacrifice 1. It is defined by some to mean "offering, oblation" and is from the Hebrew word qarab ברק which as a verb. It is defined "to come near, approach, enter into, draw near or cause to draw near".

This same word is translated as offer 95 times, but as (come, draw, … ) near 58, bring 58, (come, draw, … ) nigh 18, come 12, approach 10, at hand 4, presented 2, and another 13 other ways, appearing some 280 times. This same Hebrew letter combination appears another 250 times and is translate many different ways like "midst, among, inner part, middle, battle, and war.

Why so many different ways?

Well this is how the Pharisees and others deceived the people to go astray from the purposes of God.

Sacrifice or your offerings had a purpose whether an animal or other things offered. In Hebrew the noun korban is used for a variety of sacrificial offerings described in the Hebrew Bible.

"A korban was often an animal sacrifice, such as a sheep or a bull that underwent Jewish ritual slaughter, and was often cooked and eaten by the offerer, with parts given to the priests and parts burned or consumed on the Temple mizbe'ah. Sacrifices could also consist of doves, grain or meal, wine, or incense."[1]

But why a sacrifice and what was burning, consuming or eating really about?

What were the Altars really all about and what were the stones of these Altars?

Every successful society has instituted some method of taking care of the elderly, indigent and needy within their society. These systems looked after the welfare of the people and there were two types of welfare.

This public service by the government appointed by Christ was called the daily ministration^[10] in the New Testament. This caring for each other without any help from the men of the world who called themselves Benefactors but exercised authority one over the other was called Pure Religion.

Those official Benefactors of the world who were also the fathers of the earth Jesus spoke of whom were applied ^[11] to for their benefits. The offerings were not freely given because they were not freely obtained. Taking those benefits created an obligation.

“The real destroyers of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations, and benefits.” —Plutarch

The word ministration in the Greek is from diakonia διακονία and is translated ministry 16 times, ministration 6, ministering 3, along with 9 other ways. It is defined as "service, ministering, esp. of those who execute the commands of others" and is said to be "the office of the deacon in the church" or even "the service of those who prepare and present food".

It is from the Greek noun diakonos διάκονος which is translated minister 20 times, servant 8, deacon only 3 times. It is defined "one who executes the commands of another, esp. of a master, a servant, attendant, minister".

So in the first century and for centuries to follow the Church was to feed His sheep according to the command of the King Jesus by actually providing bread and other foods for the needy. The Church was composed of benefactors who provided actual service for the needy through freewill offerings. These offerings of charity were the Corban of Christ given out of love for one another.

Modern Christians get their benefits from men who call themselves benefactors but who exercise authority one over the other instead of by charity and the perfect law of liberty. What they are doing in their churches today looks nothing like what the early church did nor what Christ said to do yet they imagine they are believers. They say but do not do as Christ said. Since they are not doers of the word they are not practicing Pure Religion.

Their actual Corban is through the favor or grace of the state which weakens the people and entangles them in the elements of the world.

Those men called benefactors can exercise authority over all those who seek their benefits. And because those benefits are provided at the expense of their neighbor, by the force and power of the state, to desire those benefits is called covetousness.

Historians and prophets alike have warned of such benefits:

"The masses continue with an appetite for benefits and the habit of receiving them by way of a rule of force and violence. The people, having grown accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others... institute the rule of violence; ^[12] and now uniting their forces massacre, banish, and plunder,^[13] until they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch." —Polybius ^[14]

John the Baptist and his baptism, Jesus teaching on love and keeping the commandment, Peter's warning about covetousness making us merchandise and Paul's constant proclaiming of the importance of charity and the dangers of coveting throughout the whole Bible are testimony of the Gospel of the kingdom.

But there is still a cognitive disconnect in the minds of the Modern Christians where they will not see that they are practicing daily the Corban of the Pharisees that made the word of God of none effect and disobeying Christ's instructions while saying they have faith in Him.

The word worship in the Old Testament is shachah החשׁ which is translated worship 99 times, but bow 31 times, bow down 18, obeisance 9, reverence 5, fall down 3, themselves 2, stoop 1, crouch 1, misc 3. It is defined "to bow down" "before superior in homage".

Please read, pray, and repent
The Corban of the Pharisees
It made the word of God of none effect.
Is our Corban making the word of God of none effect today?

Please read our article on The Sin of Corban

Historical Corban

Rabbi Elazar said:

"Doing righteous deeds of charity is greater than offering all of the sacrifices, as it is written: Doing charity and justice is more desirable to the Lord than sacrifice (Proverbs 21:3)".^[15]

Jesus rebuked some of the Pharisees for their position on Corban in Mark Chapter 7, also Matthew Chapter 15. By neglecting their filial duty to the parents because they contributed to the treasury of Corban thinking that relieves people of their natural responsibility to support their parents.

The phrase al-Qurbaan al-Muqaddas (القربان المقدس; The Holy Korban) is the usual term used to translate the term "Eucharist" into Arabic among Arab Christians.

"Many books of the prophets in the Hebrew Bible, such as the Book of Isaiah and Book of Jeremiah, spoke out against those Israelites who brought forth sacrifices but did not act in accord with the precepts of the Law. The Prophets disparaged sacrifices that were offered without a regeneration of the heart, i.e., a determined turning from sin and returning to God by striving after righteousness (Hosea 14:1-2, Joel 2:13, Micah 6:6-8). At the same time, prophets stressed the importance of offerings combined with justice and good even as they taught that offerings were unacceptable unless combined with heartfelt repentance and good deeds. Malachi, the last prophet in the Hebrew Bible, emphasized that the goal of repentance is not to end sacrifices, but to make the offerings fit for acceptance once again (Malachi 3:3-4). Similarly, the Book of Isaiah despite disparagement of sacrifices without justice, portrays sacrifice as having a role complementary with prayer in a universalistic eschatology (Isaiah 56:1; 6-7)." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korban#In_the_Prophets

The system from which the majority of the modern Christians seek the benefits of the welfare State is based on forcing their neighbor to pay for what they want, which is covetousness and opposed to the ways of God and Christ from the beginning. The system of Corban of the Pharisees was a government system of Social Security condemned by Jesus the Christ who was the rightful King of the Jews according to Pontius Pilate and thousands and thousands of Jews at Pentecost.

If anyone's parents collected Social Security from a bankrupt system, pressing that system farther into debt, the action is the sin of Corban Jesus spoke against, like did John, because it was by force rather than charity.

That is the point. We actually encourage everyone to not merely home teach their children, but help one another do it, and do the same in meats as John said.^[16]

There is nothing brand new about our teachings except we put it in the context of what people are actually doing in real societies both old and new.

For example:

We never see the word Corban appear in the Old Testament as "Corban" either but we do see it and its root as "offering" hundreds of times. We never see the word charity in the Old Testament either.

Corban was the word for "sacrifice" and "offering" and the word sacrifice is spoken of in the New testament over 40 times, offering and gift over 60 times, charity and love over a hundred times. Why?

Because they are all talking about the same thing. They are all talking about freewill offerings given so that when we love one another it takes a substantive form in the real world.

Around 150 AD Justin Martyr wrote his Apology to Antonius Pius the emperor to explain how Christians took care of their free bread since they did not apply to the Emperor for his free bread or wine or cheese or anything else they distributed in the Roman welfare system...

“And they who are well to do, and willing, give what each thinks fit; and what is collected is deposited with the president, who succours the orphans and widows and those who, through sickness or any other cause, are in want, and those who are in bonds and the strangers sojourning among us, and in a word takes care of all who are in need.”^[17]

Does anyone remember what the sin of Sodom was?

"Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy." (Ezekiel 16:49)

Babylon and its Benefactors always offer gifts, gratuities and benefits which will reduce the liberty of the people if the people covet those benefits.

Welfare systems of the world and Babylon often "serve the needy without condition" which weakens the poor.

We know Jesus said you would have the poor always but also that their corban was making the "word of God of none effect". What we often do not know is that Corban was a welfare system based on Public religion rather than Private welfare or what James called Pure Religion. John the Baptist preached it and told the people to seek it.

Now modern Christians apply to the State to get benefits from men who exercise authority and force the contributions of the people because they have accepted the lie that it is okay to covet and take from their neighbor as long as the government does it.

Instead of repenting and striving together in one accord to to aid and "succours the orphans and widows and those who, through sickness or any other cause, are in want,"^[18] by freewill offerings and sacrifice they apply the world, these organized systems of men and the governments that they create for themselves and take from their neighbor by force so that they can personally benefit. Or they are simply slothful in the ways of the early Church. They instead drone on obsessing about irrelevant matters like Arianism and red heifers and fail to tend to the "weightier matters" Christ spoke of.

The Church established by Jesus Christ freely provided a Daily ministration through a voluntary Network charity as He commanded. The Corban of the Pharisees was the result of a government-run welfare system of free bread set up by Herod the Great which was a "snare" according to Paul and forbidden by the prophets.
That system of forced offerings through taxation was *making the word of God to none effect*. The repentant souls who got the Baptism of Christ at Pentecost were "put out"^[19] of that socialist welfare system of benefits from men like Herod and Caesar who said they were Benefactors of the World but were also the *Fathers of the earth*.

Corban of Christ

Was there a Corban of Christ?

What was this Corban of the Pharisees really all about?

What is the difference?

Corban as a Hebrew word meant a sacrifice and was specifically a "freewill offering" made by the people to a levite minister to care for the needy of society through charity and love. That daily ministration of pure Religion produced the fruit of virtue and the subsequent social bonds required for a free society under God. That Corban of Moses was in conformity with the Corban of Christ that would draw us "near" to God and God to us through His Holy Spirit.

An essential complaint about the Pharisees by Jesus was their Corban because it made the word of God to none effect.

Herod and the Pharisees established a system of legal charity that became a compelled offering for their registered members.

Jesus did not just reform the kingdom of God but as priest and king He took it from those who sat in the seat of Moses and appointed to the Apostles.^[20]

At that time under the Caesars there was also a similar system through the Imperial Cult of Rome that would be at the core of the Christian conflict with Rome.

Corban of Rome

The Roman welfare system of Qorban like the Corban of the Pharisees and Herod had changed from its early days of the Roman and Israelite republics.

As Republics there were No kings in Rome nor early Israel. Their Temple systems had no buildings made of stone but were dependent upon voluntary networks of charity through which they maintained the social bonds of free societies and nations.

These governments had evolved over time into Socialist States which forced contributions of the people through taxation like in the days of the bondage of Egypt.

The masses of their Citizenry had become slothful in the ways of liberty and accustomed to living at the expense of others. That dependence upon men who called themselves benefactors of the people but who exercised authority one over the other by taking from one group to provide for another. Those covetous practices of desiring the dainties and benefits of rulers degenerated the character of the people and the very fabric of society, the family. Over time the people were willing to even borrow against the future of children to obtain the reward of unrighteousness",

This dependence was and is contrary to the instructions of Christ, and the prophets and brought with it corruption and despotism of the world.

Roman Repentance

Many Romans wanted to return to the way of the republic when their rulers were titular and they were free.

Some had sought that return to republican values by the sword through stabbing Julius Caesar which lead to civil war with Augustus Caesar becoming the Savior of the Pax Romana and hailed as the Son of God.

"Augustus was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he deceived in his expectation, that the senate and people would submit to slavery, provided they were respectfully assured that they still enjoyed their ancient freedom."^[21]

There were many Romans, like the Centurion of faith^[22] who had eyes to see another way of a different Savior who was also called "Son of God.

Undoubtedly, many of the Romans who became the early Christians in the Empire remembered the words of Polybius and the ways of the Libera res publica of the early Roman Republic.

"The masses continue with an appetite for benefits and the habit of receiving them by way of a rule of force and violence. The people, having grown accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others... institute the rule of violence; ^[23] and now uniting their forces massacre, banish, and plunder,^[24] until they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch." ^[25]

Two Corbans

Augustus Caesar had greatly expanded the Imperial Cult of Rome which was a state run welfare system based on registration and compelled contributions. Herod would introduce a similar system of corban in the form of a legal sacrifice in Judea.

Because religion was how you took care of the needy of society these civil institutions were a form of Public religion. FDR would institute similar systems of Social Security in the United States which would be greatly expanded under other American Apotheosis like LBJ and those who succumbed to the covetous practices of his Great Society.

Jesus said if the Pharisees really knew Moses they would have known Him.^[26] Do Modern Christians know Jesus or are they under a strong delusion.^[27] Jesus warned that many people would think they believed and served Christ but they actually were workers of iniquity.^[28]

False teachings on Corban

The word Corban and it many forms found in many language generally means sacrifice. While the people of Israel while in the bondage of Egypt their sacrifice was one fifth of their labor which was compelled by the civil authorities, and funded the government because the government had provided a social safety net for not only the Israelites but all the citizens of Egypt.^[29]

For Moses these sacrifices were to be freewill offerings^[30] since his purpose was to produce a free people.

If a student of the Bible does not understand that the altars of clay and stone were symbols of systems that provided social safety nets for societies that created social bonds of care and love opposed to those systems that plowed mankind with elements of the world through the force used by the wtcked dut rejected by John the Baptist, legally justified by oaths, application, and fealty.

Because of historical ignorance many misidentify the nature of the Corban of the Pharisees which used force to provide the dainties, free bread, and social welfare àt the tables of rulers. Those systems are a snare and a trap because of the covetousness which is idolatry and the swearing an oath.

and therefore remain ignorant of the true nature of the Gospel and Corban of Christ.

Dr. Vance Havner

Dr. Vance Havner (1901, North Carolina to August 12, 1986) was a revivalist who authored nearly forty books during his ministry.

"Jesus ... reproved them for their "corban" custom by which they dedicated gifts to God and therefore escaped giving them to the needy. It was well to vow gifts to God, but it had degenerated into a clever excuse for not helping the ones in need—a pretext for evading responsibility."

What he did not seem to understand along with other "blind leaders of the blind" that Corban of the Pharisees was instituted by the civil government of Herod and a corrupted Sanhedrin. It was a social safety net which required membership through vows and baptism. It was a major step toward the ancient cities of blood but conformed to the free bread of the Roman Imperial Cult which Polybius had warned against.

The Jews should have known better having received the teachings of the prophets concerning the snares and traps of such systems.^[31]

The modern Christian and certainly the modern Church had even more warnings but strong delusions make a nation sitting in darkness blind.

Believer's Study Bible

The Believer's Study Bible by Wallie Amos Criswell Jr. ( 1909, in Oklahoma to 2002 in Texas (age 92 years)) presents a similar short combing.

"The term "Corban" means "an offering dedicated to God." While the law clearly commanded honor for parents (v10), the Pharisees effectively nullified this commandment in the practice of Corban by allowing a callous child to declare his possessions "devoted to God" so that the parents would have no claim to assistance. Should the son regret his gift of Corban, the Pharisees would insist that the vow be kept in accordance with Nu30:2. Jesus rejects this practice of using the letter of one commandment to invalidate the intent of another."

Again, this study Bible source failed to understand the purpose of those freewill offering given on the living altars of the Levites who served the tents of the congregations providing social welfare to a nation and the distinction of those non covetous practices when compared to Cain, Nimrod, Egypt and Sumer.

This put him at a disadvantage when it comes to understanding the statements about fathers^[32], tables^[33], practices^[34] , and teachings of Christ, the Early Church, and the Apostles including Paul's statement concerning covetousness being idolatry.^[35]

The Deadly Lure of Legalism

In the manuscript The Deadly Lure of Legalism by Daniel Akin^[36] he mention Corban coming to the conclusion that:

"There are basically only 2 approaches to religion, each of which can be summed up in a single word: do or done. The world says the problem is out there and the answer is what I can do. The Bible says the problem is in here and the answer is what Christ has done!"^[37]

There are two approaches to religion but what is religion?

Just a little over 200 years ago Religion was defined as the “Real piety in practice^[38], consisting in the performance of all known duties to God and our fellow men”^[39]

Our duty to God includes devotion and devotion includes obedience and homage. Obedience to God would include loving our neighbor and and caring for our parents.

So, Daniel Akin is right "There are basically only 2 approaches to" love and care for our neighbor and our parents. We can do it through freewill offerings which is charity or we can do it legally through the exercising authority of the state.

What Daniel does not seem to see is that to care for the needy of society by the legally compelled contributions of the "world", which is legal charity through the welfare State, is not only the worst form of legalism it is the antitheses of Pure Religion.

Daniel Akin wrote that the "Pharisees created a theological loophole" by simply declaring "what they would have given to their parents" has been vowed "in service to God." Daniel exclaims, "What kind of logic is that?!"^[37]

The actual theological loophole by the modern Church us no different than what the Pharisees actually did. They conspired openly with Herod to establish a social safety net for the people through the civil government.

Herod and Constantine both baptized people but motive and purpose were decidedly different than Jesus' purpose.

Herod the Great through his temples established a worldwide membership in a system of social security. It included a record of registration with a clay or stone titulus for verification through the accounts of the scribes. It actually included his own Rabbinical Baptism which had long been a custom in Jewish history.

Registration made you eligible for membership and access to benefits through the treasury of the temple. Those benefits is what the parents of the blind man feared loosing in John 9.^[40]

Rome had instituted its own Titulus Venetus^[41] and registration through their public temples.

Herod hoped to obtain at least six hundred thousand members to form a New Israel, his own kingdom of Heaven on earth.

See also Baptism, specifically Sec.The missionaries.

Ryrie Study Bible

Ryrie Study Bible by Charles Caldwell Ryrie^[42] states:

"If a son declared that the amount needed to support his parents was Corban, the scribes said that he was exempt from his duty to care for his parents as prescribed in the law. Evidently, too, he was not really obliged to devote that sum to the Temple."

Again the Corban was a government system of social security set up by Herod with the assistance of the Pharisees and other political parties where people registered to be a member of what was presented as a New Deal.

Corban of Moses had always been a freewill sacrifice given to the Levite of your choice voluntarily. The Levite was tithed to according to his service.

Understanding Corban

Do we understand what Jesus was telling them or have we become workers of iniquity too?

The Hebrew word qorban ןברק in the Old Testament and is translated offering 68, oblation 12, offered 1, sacrifice 1. It is defined by some to mean "offering, oblation". Corban of Christ is your charitable offering to provide the Daily ministration of the needy within the Congregations of the people who seek to follow Christ. The Hebrew word qarab ברק which as a verb is defined "to come near, approach, enter into, draw near or cause to draw near".

This same word is translated as offer 95 times, but as (come, draw, … ) near 58, bring 58, (come, draw, … ) nigh 18, come 12, approach 10, at hand 4, presented 2, and another 13 other ways, appearing some 280 times. This same letter combination appears another 250 times and is translate many different ways like "midst, among, inner part, middle.

These many different ways is how the Pharisees and others deceived the people to go astray from the purposes of God.

Sacrifice or your Freewill offerings in charity had a purpose. It was an expression of your Faith in The Way of Christ and the Father.

Every successful society has instituted some method of taking care of the elderly, indigent, and needy within their society.

From the Romans to the Tuetons and Celts, from early Israel to the early Christians there was a way to provide for the needy of those communities.

This care or free bread or social welfare was also called the daily ministration ^[43] in the New Testament but also Pure Religion and was part of the works of the Temples of all nations.

The word ministration in the Greek is from diakonia διακονία and is translated ministry 16 times, ministration 6, ministering 3, along with 9 other ways. It is defined as "service, ministering, esp. of those who execute the commands of others" and is said to be "the office of the deacon in the church" or even "the service of those who prepare and present food".

It is from the Greek noun diakonos διάκονος which is translated minister 20 times, servant 8, deacon only 3 times. It is defined as "one who executes the commands of another, esp. of a master, a servant, attendant, minister".

So, in the first century and for centuries to follow the Church was to feed His sheep by actually providing bread and other foods for the needy which was the Corbanus of Christ.^[44]

The Church was composed of benefactors who provided actual service through a Network of ministers for the needy through Freewill offerings. These offerings of Charity was the Corban of Christ given out of love for one another.

Modern Christians get their benefits from men who call themselves benefactors but who exercise authority one over the other instead of by charity and the perfect law of liberty. What they are doing in their state churches today looks nothing like what the early Church established by Christ did nor is it doing what Christ said to do. Yet, they imagine they are believers and pay ministers great sums of money to support that delusion with False religion. They say but do not do as Christ said.

Their actual Corban is through the favor or grace of the state which weakens the people and entangles them again in the elements of the world.

Those men called benefactors can exercise authority over all those who seek their benefits and because those benefits are provided at the expense of their neighbor by the force and power of the state. To desire those benefits at the expense of other people is coveting and to depend upon the state is the antitheses of Pure Religion.

John the Baptist and his baptism, Jesus teaching on love and commandments, Peters warning about Covetous Practices making us merchandise and Paul's constant proclaiming of the importance of Charity are testimony of the the Gospel and the need to create a Network through the Corban of Christ.

What the future holds

What the future holds is foretold in the past.

History does repeat itself and the destiny of the Roman Empire is written in its own future for we have abandoned the ways of Christ for the ways of Rome.

In the 2008 article Corban: The Pharisees and the state by Jim Fedako he mentions a 1990 post at the Future of Freedom Foundation "CHARITY: BIBLICAL AND POLITICAL", by Russell J. Clinchy. That article appeared in Essays on Liberty, published in 1952 by The Foundation for Economic Education.

In his essay, Clinchy asked the question, "What does the future hold for a nation wherein parents have come to believe that the purpose of government is to relieve them of the responsibility for their children, and wherein the children in turn demand that government relieve them of the responsibility for their parents?"

Polybius answered that question over 2000 years ago. "The masses continue with an appetite for benefits and the habit of receiving them by way of a rule of force and violence. The people, having grown accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others... institute the rule of violence; and now uniting their forces massacre, banish, and plunder, until they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch."

Corban means "sacrifice" in Hebrew and the tradition of giving "freewill offerings" to the Levites who had been the "Church in the wilderness" to serve the "tents of the congregation” of the people was a good tradition.

Religion was how you took care of the needs of society when the family was unable to do it. Under Herod, the Pharisees made the function of the temple a social welfare scheme of entitlements. This was not a new idea. Nimrod, Pharaoh, and Caesar had already done it.

Russell J. Clinchy was born in 1883 and he lived through the thirties and the changes wrought by men like FDR. But who in the modern Church remembers how it used to be when there was Pure Religion practiced in the land or what the Christian conflict was with Rome?

The Church established by Jesus Christ freely provided a Daily ministration through a voluntary Network charity as He commanded. The Corban of the Pharisees was the result of a government-run welfare system of free bread set up by Herod the Great which was a "snare" according to Paul and forbidden by the prophets.
That system of forced offerings through taxation was making the word of God to none effect. The repentant souls who got the Baptism of Christ at Pentecost were "put out" of that socialist welfare system of benefits from men like Herod and Caesar who said they were Benefactors of the World but were also the Fathers of the earth.

Capitalism works best in a society where people love their neighbor as themselves, where the State is superfluous because the power of the State remains in the hands of the individual as God intended. The individual, as a natural inhabitant, can only remain free in a *state of nature* as long as he remains virtuous. Capitalism does not dictate virtue. Greed or charity remain a choice in a free society. Socialism always brings an end to virtue with the empowerment of the State because it is the stumblingblock of **Balaam**.
“If Virtue & Knowledge are diffused among the People, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great Security”^[45] In a republic of noble and virtuous souls there are few affairs of the people that are not taken care of by the people for the people.

Beware of gifts

"Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?" Isaiah 40:21

There are gifts of God and man.

Plutarch said “The real destroyers of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.”

But Proverbs 19:6 tells us the same thing, "Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man [is] a friend to him that giveth gifts."

Polybius said "The masses continue with an appetite for benefits and the habit of receiving them by way of a rule of force and violence. The people, having grown accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others... institute the rule of violence; and now uniting their forces massacre, banish, and plunder, until they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch."

This rule of violence and plunder is the same we hear about in Matthew 11:12 "And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force." and in Luke 16:16 "The law and the prophets [were] until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it." The Repentance associated with the act of Baptism was turning away from these Covetous systems of the Welfare of the World and going back to The Way of Fervent Charity with the Eucharist of Christ.

"He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live." Proverbs 15:27

The wages of unrighteousness offered by men brings the rights and liberty of man^[46] given by God to nothing^[47] and their right to judge to confusion.^[48]

The gifts of God which set men free^[49] come to those who will walk the Way of God.^[50]

The Paul the Apostle wrote to a number of Early Christian communities in Galatia, "For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another." Galatians 5:13-15

When Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 8:9 "But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak." the word "liberty" is the same word exousia Paul uses in Romans 13.

The same word we see as power in Romans 13 is translated right in Hebrews 13:10^[51] and Revelation 22:14.^[52] and also in Revelation 18^[53] concerning the fall of Babylon and the merchants of the earth who are the merchants of men who together with the kings of the earth have committed fornication. Rulers of the world of men not only have sought to take man's endowed dominion from him but have conspired to make all men take the Mark of the Beast which is a badge of servitude that makes them merchandise.

Have we lost that liberty granted by God by neglecting our natural and moral responsibility that is correlative to those God given rights?

Eyes full of adultery

Peter made it clear in 2 Peter 2:3, "And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not."

Peter not only warned us that desiring benefits at the expense of others would make us human resources what he calls merchandise but he warned us in 2 Peter 2:14 about those covetous practices entangling them back in the yoke of bondage and cursing our children:

"Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:" 2 Peter 2:14

He tells us that the debt of those Divers lust for the benefits of the world at the expense of others would curse our children.

David warned us in Psalms 69:22, "Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap."

And Paul reminded us again in Romans 11:9 that "... David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:"

This stumblingblock was that we would learn to eat at tables set with the bounty of the compelled sacrifices of institutions made by men who called themselves Benefactors that ruled over the people with and exercising authority and is explained in Revelation 2:14 "But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication."

Proverbs 23 warns us about the table of men who exercise authority one over the other "When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what [is] before thee: And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat."

If the ruler is your Benefactor he will only give you what he takes from others. To desire the Benefits is to Covet and that will change.

What are these benefits today?

Those benefits include everything from Public Schools to Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards which is an electronic system that allows state welfare departments to issue benefits via a magnetically encoded payment card, used in the United States and the United Kingdom like Rome did with their Tesserae of the Beast of Revelation?

Warned

We were told by God in Exodus 20:17 "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s."

Jesus warned us of the evil of covetousness and where it comes from in Mark 7:20-23, "...That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these evil things come from within, and defile the man."

These are the things he called us to repent of in Matthew 4:17 when he first "... began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." and in Mark 1:15 when He said "... The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel." but warned us in Luke 13:3 that "... except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish."

He warned the ministers that systems of Corban like the one they created for their social welfare made the word of God to none effect.

Jesus told us not to look to Benefactors who exercise authority one over the other.

He told us not to pray to Fathers of the earth, but only our Father who is in Heaven.

He told us to keep the commandments including the one about not coveting anything that is our neighbors if we want Eternal life. And when 1 John 2 talked about the "propitiation for our sins", he reminded us that "... hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked."

Real Christians would not desire the benefits of men who call themselves Benefactors nor pray to the Fathers of the earth like Modern Christians do. They would be led to gather together in a living Network that provided a Daily ministration of Charity for one another according to the Perfect law of liberty. They would strive to keep His commandments by being Doers of His word in a Living Network of Love.

Israel in the Bondage of Egypt were literally employed by the Pharaoh who provided free bread like the Romans in the form of Public Welfare which was Public religion. They had to pay their tale of bricks to the Pharaoh but learn to glean in the field at night to obtain their benefits. This is why God hardened the heart of the Pharaoh during the plagues so they could learn The Way of God. So it was not enough to stop taking the benefits, but they needed to learn to provide them by faith, hope and charity through a system of Corban that made the word of God to effect.

Jesus said nothing different to the early Church. When he said give to Caesar what is Caesar and to God what is God's he was saying pay your tale of bricks. He even warned to be friends with the unrighteous Mammon explaining that it would fail. Those who cheat one master you will likely cheat the next.^[54]

We are in bondage because of Covetous Practices and Slothfulness. We are devoured because we or our natural parents took bites out of one another in these Covetous Practices which made us a Surety for debt in an unrighteous Mammon... We must Repent and seek the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness.

Where and what is true Christian fellowship?

Where and what is the true Eucharist of Christ?

Where and what is the Living Network of the faithful?

Where and what is the Communion of Saints?

Where and how do the people practice Pure Religion?

Where and who are the people that attend to the Weightier matters?

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New Testament

2878 ~κορβᾶν~ korban \@kor-ban’\@ and ~κορβανάς~ korbanas \@kor-ban-as’\@ of Hebrew and Aramaic origin respectively 07133 ^ןברק^; n m AV-treasury 1, corban 1; 2 1) a gift offered (or to be offered) to God 2) the sacred treasury

Matthew 27:6 And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury <2878>, because it is the price of blood.

Mark 7:11 But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban <2878>, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.

Old Testament

07133 קרבן qorban kor-bawn’ or קרבן qurban koor-bawn’ from 07126, Greek 2878 κορβαν; n m; [BDB-898b] {See TWOT on 2065 @@ "2065e" } AV-offering 68, oblation 12, offered 1, sacrifice 1; 82 1) offering, oblation

Leviticus 1:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering <07133> unto the LORD, ye shall bring your offering <07133> of the cattle, even of the herd, and of the flock.

Leviticus 1:3 If his offering <07133> be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD.

Leviticus 1:10 And if his offering <07133> be of the flocks, namely, of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring it a male without blemish.

Leviticus 1:14 And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering <07133> to the LORD be of fowls, then he shall bring his offering <07133> of turtledoves, or of young pigeons.

Leviticus 2:1 And when any will offer a meat offering <07133> unto the LORD, his offering <07133> shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon:

Leviticus 2:4 And if thou bring an oblation <07133> of a meat offering baken in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.

Leviticus 2:5 And if thy oblation <07133> be a meat offering baken in a pan, it shall be of fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil.

Leviticus 2:7 And if thy oblation <07133> be a meat offering baken in the fryingpan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.

Leviticus 2:12 As for the oblation <07133> of the firstfruits, ye shall offer them unto the LORD: but they shall not be burnt on the altar for a sweet savour.

Leviticus 2:13 And every oblation <07133> of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings <07133> thou shalt offer salt.

Leviticus 3:1 And if his oblation <07133> be a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offer it of the herd; whether it be a male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the LORD.

Leviticus 3:2 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering <07133>, and kill it at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron’s sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.

Leviticus 3:6 And if his offering <07133> for a sacrifice of peace offering unto the LORD be of the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.

Leviticus 3:7 If he offer a lamb for his offering <07133>, then shall he offer it before the LORD.

Leviticus 3:8 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering <07133>, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron’s sons shall sprinkle the blood thereof round about upon the altar.

Leviticus 3:12 And if his offering <07133> be a goat, then he shall offer it before the LORD.

Leviticus 3:14 And he shall offer thereof his offering <07133>, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,

Leviticus 4:23 Or if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, come to his knowledge; he shall bring his offering <07133>, a kid of the goats, a male without blemish:

Leviticus 4:28 Or if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering <07133>, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned.

Leviticus 4:32 And if he bring a lamb for a sin offering <07133>, he shall bring it a female without blemish.

Leviticus 5:11 But if he be not able to bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering <07133> the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put any frankincense thereon: for it is a sin offering.

Leviticus 6:20 This is the offering <07133> of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer unto the LORD in the day when he is anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof at night.

Leviticus 7:13 Besides the cakes, he shall offer for his offering <07133> leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings.

Leviticus 7:14 And of it he shall offer one out of the whole oblation <07133> for an heave offering unto the LORD, and it shall be the priest’s that sprinkleth the blood of the peace offerings.

Leviticus 7:15 And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered <07133>; he shall not leave any of it until the morning.

Leviticus 7:16 But if the sacrifice of his offering <07133> be a vow, or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten:

Leviticus 7:29 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, He that offereth the sacrifice of his peace offerings unto the LORD shall bring his oblation <07133> unto the LORD of the sacrifice of his peace offerings.

Leviticus 7:38 Which the LORD commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations <07133> unto the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai.

Leviticus 9:7 And Moses said unto Aaron, Go unto the altar, and offer thy sin offering, and thy burnt offering, and make an atonement for thyself, and for the people: and offer the offering <07133> of the people, and make an atonement for them; as the LORD commanded.

Leviticus 9:15 And he brought the people’s offering <07133>, and took the goat, which was the sin offering for the people, and slew it, and offered it for sin, as the first.

Leviticus 17:4 And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer an offering <07133> unto the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD; blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people:

Leviticus 22:18 Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whatsoever he be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer his oblation <07133> for all his vows, and for all his freewill offerings, which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt offering;

Leviticus 22:27 When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, then it shall be seven days under the dam; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for an offering <07133> made by fire unto the LORD.

Leviticus 23:14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering <07133> unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

Leviticus 27:9 And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering <07133> unto the LORD, all that any man giveth of such unto the LORD shall be holy.

Leviticus 27:11 And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a sacrifice <07133> unto the LORD, then he shall present the beast before the priest:

Numbers 5:15 Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering <07133> for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.

Numbers 6:14 And he shall offer his offering <07133> unto the LORD, one he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings,

Numbers 6:21 This is the law of the Nazarite who hath vowed, and of his offering <07133> unto the LORD for his separation, beside that that his hand shall get: according to the vow which he vowed, so he must do after the law of his separation.

Numbers 7:3 And they brought their offering <07133> before the LORD, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for two of the princes, and for each one an ox: and they brought them before the tabernacle.

Numbers 7:10 And the princes offered for dedicating of the altar in the day that it was anointed, even the princes offered their offering <07133> before the altar.

Numbers 7:11 And the LORD said unto Moses, They shall offer their offering <07133>, each prince on his day, for the dedicating of the altar.

Numbers 7:12 And he that offered his offering <07133> the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah:

Numbers 7:13 And his offering <07133> was one silver charger, the weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:

Numbers 7:17 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering <07133> of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

Numbers 7:19 He offered for his offering <07133> one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:

Numbers 7:23 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, : five lambs of the first year: this was the offering <07133> of Nethaneel the son of Zuar.

Numbers 7:25 His offering <07133> was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:

Numbers 7:29 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering <07133> of Eliab the son of Helon.

Numbers 7:31 His offering <07133> was one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:

Numbers 7:35 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering <07133> of Elizur the son of Shedeur.

Numbers 7:37 His offering <07133> was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:

Numbers 7:41 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering <07133> of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

Numbers 7:43 His offering <07133> was one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, a silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:

Numbers 7:47 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering <07133> of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.

Numbers 7:49 His offering <07133> was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:

Numbers 7:53 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering <07133> of Elishama the son of Ammihud.

Numbers 7:55 His offering <07133> was one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:

Numbers 7:59 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering <07133> of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

Numbers 7:61 His offering <07133> was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:

Numbers 7:65 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering <07133> of Abidan the son of Gideoni.

Numbers 7:67 His offering <07133> was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:

Numbers 7:71 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering <07133> of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.

Numbers 7:73 His offering <07133> was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:

Numbers 7:77 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering <07133> of Pagiel the son of Ocran.

Numbers 7:79 His offering <07133> was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:

Numbers 7:83 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering <07133> of Ahira the son of Enan.

Numbers 9:7 And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering <07133> of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel?

Numbers 9:13 But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering <07133> of the LORD in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.

Numbers 15:4 Then shall he that offereth his offering <07133> unto the LORD bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of oil.

Numbers 15:25 And the priest shall make an atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them; for it is ignorance: and they shall bring their offering <07133>, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their ignorance:

Numbers 18:9 This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation <07133> of theirs, every meat offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons.

Numbers 28:2 Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My offering <07133>, and my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, for a sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season.

Numbers 31:50 We have therefore brought an oblation <07133> for the LORD, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the LORD.

Nehemiah 10:34 And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering <07133>, to bring it into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the law:

Nehemiah 13:31 And for the wood offering <07133>, at times appointed, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.

Ezekiel 20:28 For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering <07133>: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.

Ezekiel 40:43 And within were hooks, an hand broad, fastened round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering <07133>.

07126 ^ברק^ qarab \@kaw-rab’\@ a primitive root; v; AV-offer 95, (come, draw, … ) near 58, bring 58, (come, draw, … ) nigh 18, come 12, approach 10, at hand 4, presented 2, misc 13; 280

1) to come near, approach, enter into, draw near

1a) (Qal) to approach, draw near

1b) (Niphal) to be brought near

1c) (Piel) to cause to approach, bring near, cause to draw near

1d) (Hiphil) to bring near, bring, present

Genesis 20:4 But Abimelech had not come near <07126> her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?

Genesis 27:41 And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand <07126>; then will I slay my brother Jacob.

Genesis 37:18 And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near <07126> unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.

Genesis 47:29 And the time drew nigh <07126> that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:

Exodus 3:5 And he said, Draw not nigh <07126> hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

Exodus 12:48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near <07126> and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.

Exodus 14:10 And when Pharaoh drew nigh <07126>, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto the LORD.

Exodus 14:20 And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near <07126> the other all the night.

Exodus 16:9 And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near <07126> before the LORD: for he hath heard your murmurings.

Exodus 22:8 If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought <07126> unto the judges, to see whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour’s goods.

Exodus 28:1 And take <07126> thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.

Exodus 29:3 And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring <07126> them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams.

Exodus 29:4 And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring <07126> unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shalt wash them with water.

Exodus 29:8 And thou shalt bring <07126> his sons, and put coats upon them.

Exodus 29:10 And thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought <07126> before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the bullock.

Exodus 32:19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh <07126> unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.

Exodus 36:2 And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whose heart the LORD had put wisdom, even every one whose heart stirred him up to come <07126> unto the work to do it:

Exodus 40:12 And thou shalt bring <07126> Aaron and his sons unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and wash them with water.

Exodus 40:14 And thou shalt bring <07126> his sons, and clothe them with coats:

Exodus 40:32 When they went into the tent of the congregation, and when they came near <07126> unto the altar, they washed; as the LORD commanded Moses.

Leviticus 1:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring <07126> an offering unto the LORD, ye shall bring <07126> your offering of the cattle, even of the herd, and of the flock.

Leviticus 1:3 If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer <07126> a male without blemish: he shall offer <07126> it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD.

Leviticus 1:5 And he shall kill the bullock before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall bring <07126> the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

Leviticus 1:10 And if his offering be of the flocks, namely, of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring <07126> it a male without blemish.

Leviticus 1:13 But he shall wash the inwards and the legs with water: and the priest shall bring <07126> it all, and burn it upon the altar: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.

Leviticus 1:14 And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the LORD be of fowls, then he shall bring <07126> his offering of turtledoves, or of young pigeons.

Leviticus 1:15 And the priest shall bring <07126> it unto the altar, and wring off his head, and burn it on the altar; and the blood thereof shall be wrung out at the side of the altar:

Leviticus 2:1 And when any will offer <07126> a meat offering unto the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon:

Leviticus 2:4 And if thou bring <07126> an oblation of a meat offering baken in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.

Leviticus 2:8 And thou shalt bring the meat offering that is made of these things unto the LORD: and when it is presented <07126> unto the priest, he shall bring it unto the altar.

Leviticus 2:11 No meat offering, which ye shall bring <07126> unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the LORD made by fire.

Leviticus 2:12 As for the oblation of the firstfruits, ye shall offer <07126> them unto the LORD: but they shall not be burnt on the altar for a sweet savour.

Leviticus 2:13 And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer <07126> salt.

Leviticus 2:14 And if thou offer <07126> a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto the LORD, thou shalt offer <07126> for the meat offering of thy firstfruits green ears of corn dried by the fire, even corn beaten out of full ears.

Leviticus 3:1 And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offer <07126> it of the herd; whether it be a male or female, he shall offer <07126> it without blemish before the LORD.

Leviticus 3:3 And he shall offer <07126> of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,

Leviticus 3:6 And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering unto the LORD be of the flock; male or female, he shall offer <07126> it without blemish.

Leviticus 3:7 If he offer <07126> a lamb for his offering, then shall he offer <07126> it before the LORD.

Leviticus 3:9 And he shall offer <07126> of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat thereof, and the whole rump, it shall he take off hard by the backbone; and the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,

Leviticus 3:12 And if his offering be a goat, then he shall offer <07126> it before the LORD.

Leviticus 3:14 And he shall offer <07126> thereof his offering, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,

Leviticus 4:3 If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring <07126> for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a sin offering.

Leviticus 4:14 When the sin, which they have sinned against it, is known, then the congregation shall offer <07126> a young bullock for the sin, and bring him before the tabernacle of the congregation.

Leviticus 5:8 And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer <07126> that which is for the sin offering first, and wring off his head from his neck, but shall not divide it asunder:

Leviticus 6:14 And this is the law of the meat offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer <07126> it before the LORD, before the altar.

Leviticus 6:20 This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer <07126> unto the LORD in the day when he is anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof at night.

Leviticus 6:21 In a pan it shall be made with oil; and when it is baken, thou shalt bring it in: and the baken pieces of the meat offering shalt thou offer <07126> for a sweet savour unto the LORD.

Leviticus 7:3 And he shall offer <07126> of it all the fat thereof; the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards,

Leviticus 7:8 And the priest that offereth <07126> any man’s burnt offering, even the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt offering which he hath offered <07126>.

Leviticus 7:9 And all the meat offering that is baken in the oven, and all that is dressed in the fryingpan, and in the pan, shall be the priest’s that offereth <07126> it.

Leviticus 7:11 And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he shall offer <07126> unto the LORD.

Leviticus 7:12 If he offer <07126> it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer <07126> with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried.

Leviticus 7:14 And of it he shall offer <07126> one out of the whole oblation for an heave offering unto the LORD, and it shall be the priest’s that sprinkleth the blood of the peace offerings.

Leviticus 7:16 But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth <07126> his sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten:

Leviticus 7:18 And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth <07126> it: it shall be an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity.

Leviticus 7:25 For whosoever eateth the fat of the beast, of which men offer <07126> an offering made by fire unto the LORD, even the soul that eateth it shall be cut off from his people.

Leviticus 7:29 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, He that offereth <07126> the sacrifice of his peace offerings unto the LORD shall bring his oblation unto the LORD of the sacrifice of his peace offerings.

Leviticus 7:33 He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth <07126> the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder for his part.

Leviticus 7:35 This is the portion of the anointing of Aaron, and of the anointing of his sons, out of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, in the day when he presented <07126> them to minister unto the LORD in the priest’s office;

Leviticus 7:38 Which the LORD commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer <07126> their oblations unto the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai.

Leviticus 8:6 And Moses brought <07126> Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water.

Leviticus 8:13 And Moses brought <07126> Aaron’s sons, and put coats upon them, and girded them with girdles, and put bonnets upon them; as the LORD commanded Moses.

Leviticus 8:18 And he brought <07126> the ram for the burnt offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.

Leviticus 8:22 And he brought <07126> the other ram, the ram of consecration: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.

Leviticus 8:24 And he brought <07126> Aaron’s sons, and Moses put of the blood upon the tip of their right ear, and upon the thumbs of their right hands, and upon the great toes of their right feet: and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about.

Leviticus 9:2 And he said unto Aaron, Take thee a young calf for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer <07126> them before the LORD.

Leviticus 9:5 And they brought that which Moses commanded before the tabernacle of the congregation: and all the congregation drew near <07126> and stood before the LORD.

Leviticus 9:7 And Moses said unto Aaron, Go <07126> unto the altar, and offer thy sin offering, and thy burnt offering, and make an atonement for thyself, and for the people: and offer the offering of the people, and make an atonement for them; as the LORD commanded.

Leviticus 9:8 Aaron therefore went <07126> unto the altar, and slew the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.

Leviticus 9:9 And the sons of Aaron brought <07126> the blood unto him: and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the bottom of the altar:

Leviticus 9:15 And he brought <07126> the people’s offering, and took the goat, which was the sin offering for the people, and slew it, and offered it for sin, as the first.

Leviticus 9:16 And he brought <07126> the burnt offering, and offered it according to the manner.

Leviticus 9:17 And he brought <07126> the meat offering, and took an handful thereof, and burnt it upon the altar, beside the burnt sacrifice of the morning.

Leviticus 10:1 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered <07126> strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.

Leviticus 10:4 And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said unto them, Come near <07126>, carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp.

Leviticus 10:5 So they went near <07126>, and carried them in their coats out of the camp; as Moses had said.

Leviticus 10:19 And Aaron said unto Moses, Behold, this day have they offered <07126> their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD; and such things have befallen me: and if I had eaten the sin offering to day, should it have been accepted in the sight of the LORD?

Leviticus 12:7 Who shall offer <07126> it before the LORD, and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that hath born a male or a female.

Leviticus 14:12 And the priest shall take one he lamb, and offer <07126> him for a trespass offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the LORD:

Leviticus 16:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered <07126> before the LORD, and died;

Leviticus 16:6 And Aaron shall offer <07126> his bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make an atonement for himself, and for his house.

Leviticus 16:9 And Aaron shall bring <07126> the goat upon which the LORD’S lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering.

Leviticus 16:11 And Aaron shall bring <07126> the bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make an atonement for himself, and for his house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself:

Leviticus 16:20 And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring <07126> the live goat:

Leviticus 17:4 And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer <07126> an offering unto the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD; blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people:

Leviticus 18:6 None of you shall approach <07126> to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD.

Leviticus 18:14 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s brother, thou shalt not approach <07126> to his wife: she is thine aunt.

Leviticus 18:19 Also thou shalt not approach <07126> unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.

Leviticus 20:16 And if a woman approach <07126> unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

Leviticus 21:6 They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God, they do offer <07126>: therefore they shall be holy.

Leviticus 21:8 Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth <07126> the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which sanctify you, am holy.

Leviticus 21:17 Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach <07126> to offer <07126> the bread of his God.

Leviticus 21:18 For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach <07126>: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,

Leviticus 21:21 No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer <07126> the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer <07126> the bread of his God.

Leviticus 22:3 Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generations, that goeth <07126> unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD.

Leviticus 22:18 Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whatsoever he be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer <07126> his oblation for all his vows, and for all his freewill offerings, which they will offer <07126> unto the LORD for a burnt offering;

Leviticus 22:20 But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer <07126>: for it shall not be acceptable for you.

Leviticus 22:21 And whosoever offereth <07126> a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD to accomplish his vow, or a freewill offering in beeves or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein.

Leviticus 22:22 Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer <07126> these unto the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD.

Leviticus 22:24 Ye shall not offer <07126> unto the LORD that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall ye make any offering thereof in your land.

Leviticus 22:25 Neither from a stranger’s hand shall ye offer <07126> the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes be in them: they shall not be accepted for you.

Leviticus 23:8 But ye shall offer <07126> an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

Leviticus 23:16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer <07126> a new meat offering unto the LORD.

Leviticus 23:18 And ye shall offer <07126> with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the LORD.

Leviticus 23:25 Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer <07126> an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

Leviticus 23:27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer <07126> an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

Leviticus 23:36 Seven days ye shall offer <07126> an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer <07126> an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.

Leviticus 23:37 These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer <07126> an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:

Leviticus 27:9 And if it be a beast, whereof men bring <07126> an offering unto the LORD, all that any man giveth of such unto the LORD shall be holy.

Leviticus 27:11 And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer <07126> a sacrifice unto the LORD, then he shall present the beast before the priest:

Numbers 3:4 And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered <07126> strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest’s office in the sight of Aaron their father.

Numbers 3:6 Bring <07126> the tribe of Levi near <07126>, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him.

Numbers 5:9 And every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring <07126> unto the priest, shall be his.

Numbers 5:16 And the priest shall bring her near <07126>, and set her before the LORD:

Numbers 5:25 Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and offer <07126> it upon the altar:

Numbers 6:14 And he shall offer <07126> his offering unto the LORD, one he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings,

Numbers 6:16 And the priest shall bring <07126> them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering:

Numbers 7:2 That the princes of Israel, heads of the house of their fathers, who were the princes of the tribes, and were over them that were numbered, offered <07126>:

Numbers 7:3 And they brought their offering before the LORD, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for two of the princes, and for each one an ox: and they brought <07126> them before the tabernacle.

Numbers 7:10 And the princes offered <07126> for dedicating of the altar in the day that it was anointed, even the princes offered <07126> their offering before the altar.

Numbers 7:11 And the LORD said unto Moses, They shall offer <07126> their offering, each prince on his day, for the dedicating of the altar.

Numbers 7:12 And he that offered <07126> his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah:

Numbers 7:18 On the second day Nethaneel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, did offer <07126>:

Numbers 7:19 He offered <07126> for his offering one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:

Numbers 8:9 And thou shalt bring <07126> the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel together:

Numbers 8:10 And thou shalt bring <07126> the Levites before the LORD: and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites:

Numbers 9:6 And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came <07126> before Moses and before Aaron on that day:

Numbers 9:7 And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer <07126> an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel?

Numbers 9:13 But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought <07126> not the offering of the LORD in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.

Numbers 15:4 Then shall he that offereth <07126> his offering unto the LORD bring <07126> a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of oil.

Numbers 15:7 And for a drink offering thou shalt offer <07126> the third part of an hin of wine, for a sweet savour unto the LORD.

Numbers 15:9 Then shall he bring <07126> with a bullock a meat offering of three tenth deals of flour mingled with half an hin of oil.

Numbers 15:10 And thou shalt bring <07126> for a drink offering half an hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.

Numbers 15:13 All that are born of the country shall do these things after this manner, in offering <07126> an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.

Numbers 15:27 And if any soul sin through ignorance, then he shall bring <07126> a she goat of the first year for a sin offering.

Numbers 15:33 And they that found him gathering sticks brought <07126> him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.

Numbers 16:5 And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, Even to morrow the LORD will shew who are his, and who is holy; and will cause him to come near <07126> unto him: even him whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near <07126> unto him.

Numbers 16:9 Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near <07126> to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them?

Numbers 16:10 And he hath brought thee near <07126> to him, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also?

Numbers 16:17 And take every man his censer, and put incense in them, and bring <07126> ye before the LORD every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; thou also, and Aaron, each of you his censer.

Numbers 16:35 And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered <07126> incense.

Numbers 16:38 The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered <07126> them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.

Numbers 16:39 And Eleazar the priest took the brasen censers, wherewith they that were burnt had offered <07126>; and they were made broad plates for a covering of the altar:

Numbers 16:40 To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near <07126> to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.

Numbers 18:2 And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring <07126> thou with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee shall minister before the tabernacle of witness.

Numbers 18:3 And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh <07126> the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die.

Numbers 18:4 And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come nigh <07126> unto you.

Numbers 18:15 Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they bring <07126> unto the LORD, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem.

Numbers 18:22 Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh <07126> the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.

Numbers 25:6 And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought <07126> unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

Numbers 26:61 And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered <07126> strange fire before the LORD.

Numbers 27:1 Then came <07126> the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.

Numbers 27:5 And Moses brought <07126> their cause before the LORD.

Numbers 28:2 Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My offering, and my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, for a sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer <07126> unto me in their due season.

Numbers 28:3 And thou shalt say unto them, This is the offering made by fire which ye shall offer <07126> unto the LORD; two lambs of the first year without spot day by day, for a continual burnt offering.

Numbers 28:11 And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer <07126> a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot;

Numbers 28:19 But ye shall offer <07126> a sacrifice made by fire for a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, and seven lambs of the first year: they shall be unto you without blemish:

Numbers 28:26 Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring <07126> a new meat offering unto the LORD, after your weeks be out, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work:

Numbers 28:27 But ye shall offer <07126> the burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the LORD; two young bullocks, one ram, seven lambs of the first year;

Numbers 29:8 But ye shall offer <07126> a burnt offering unto the LORD for a sweet savour; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year; they shall be unto you without blemish:

Numbers 29:13 And ye shall offer <07126> a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD; thirteen young bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year; they shall be without blemish:

Numbers 29:36 But ye shall offer <07126> a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: one bullock, one ram, seven lambs of the first year without blemish:

Numbers 31:48 And the officers which were over thousands of the host, the captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, came near <07126> unto Moses:

Numbers 31:50 We have therefore brought <07126> an oblation for the LORD, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the LORD.

Numbers 36:1 And the chief fathers of the families of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near <07126>, and spake before Moses, and before the princes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel:

Deuteronomy 1:17 Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God’s: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring <07126> it unto me, and I will hear it.

Deuteronomy 1:22 And ye came near <07126> unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.

Deuteronomy 2:19 And when thou comest nigh <07126> over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession.

Deuteronomy 2:37 Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest <07126> not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the LORD our God forbad us.

Deuteronomy 4:11 And ye came near <07126> and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.

Deuteronomy 5:23 And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near <07126> unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;

Deuteronomy 5:27 Go thou near <07126>, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say: and speak thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it.

Deuteronomy 15:9 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand <07126>; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.

Deuteronomy 20:2 And it shall be, when ye are come nigh <07126> unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people,

Deuteronomy 20:10 When thou comest nigh <07126> unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.

Deuteronomy 22:14 And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came <07126> to her, I found her not a maid:

Deuteronomy 25:11 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near <07126> for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:

Deuteronomy 31:14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach <07126> that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation.

Joshua 3:4 Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near <07126> unto it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go: for ye have not passed this way heretofore.

Joshua 7:14 In the morning therefore ye shall be brought <07126> according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the LORD taketh shall come <07126> according to the families thereof; and the family which the LORD shall take shall come <07126> by households; and the household which the LORD shall take shall come <07126> man by man.

Joshua 7:16 So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought <07126> Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:

Joshua 7:17 And he brought <07126> the family of Judah; and he took the family of the Zarhites: and he brought <07126> the family of the Zarhites man by man; and Zabdi was taken:

Joshua 7:18 And he brought <07126> his household man by man; and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.

Joshua 8:5 And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach <07126> unto the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them,

Joshua 8:23 And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought <07126> him to Joshua.

Joshua 10:24 And it came to pass, when they brought out those kings unto Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the captains of the men of war which went with him, Come near <07126>, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near <07126>, and put their feet upon the necks of them.

Joshua 17:4 And they came near <07126> before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren. Therefore according to the commandment of the LORD he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father.

Judges 3:17 And he brought <07126> the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man.

Judges 3:18 And when he had made an end to offer <07126> the present, he sent away the people that bare the present.

Judges 5:25 He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth <07126> butter in a lordly dish.

Judges 19:13 And he said unto his servant, Come, and let us draw near <07126> to one of these places to lodge all night, in Gibeah, or in Ramah.

Judges 20:24 And the children of Israel came near <07126> against the children of Benjamin the second day.

1 Samuel 10:20 And when Samuel had caused all the tribes of Israel to come near <07126>, the tribe of Benjamin was taken.

1 Samuel 10:21 When he had caused the tribe of Benjamin to come near <07126> by their families, the family of Matri was taken, and Saul the son of Kish was taken: and when they sought him, he could not be found.

1 Samuel 14:36 And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and spoil them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. And they said, Do whatsoever seemeth good unto thee. Then said the priest, Let us draw near <07126> hither unto God.

1 Samuel 17:48 And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh <07126> to meet David, that David hasted, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.

2 Samuel 15:5 And it was so, that when any man came nigh <07126> to him to do him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took him, and kissed him.

2 Samuel 20:16 Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I pray you, unto Joab, Come near <07126> hither, that I may speak with thee.

2 Samuel 20:17 And when he was come near <07126> unto her, the woman said, Art thou Joab? And he answered, I am he. Then she said unto him, Hear the words of thine handmaid. And he answered, I do hear.

1 Kings 2:1 Now the days of David drew nigh <07126> that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying,

1 Kings 2:7 But shew kindness unto the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of those that eat at thy table: for so they came <07126> to me when I fled because of Absalom thy brother.

1 Kings 20:29 And they pitched one over against the other seven days. And so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined <07126>: and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day.

2 Kings 16:12 And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached <07126> to the altar, and offered thereon.

2 Kings 16:14 And he brought <07126> also the brasen altar, which was before the LORD, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of the altar.

1 Chronicles 16:1 So they brought the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it: and they offered <07126> burnt sacrifices and peace offerings before God.

2 Chronicles 35:12 And they removed the burnt offerings, that they might give according to the divisions of the families of the people, to offer <07126> unto the LORD, as it is written in the book of Moses. And so did they with the oxen.

Ezra 8:35 Also the children of those that had been carried away, which were come out of the captivity, offered <07126> burnt offerings unto the God of Israel, twelve bullocks for all Israel, ninety and six rams, seventy and seven lambs, twelve he goats for a sin offering: all this was a burnt offering unto the LORD.

Esther 5:2 And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, that she obtained favour in his sight: and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in his hand. So Esther drew near <07126>, and touched the top of the sceptre.

Job 31:37 I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near <07126> unto him.

Job 33:22 Yea, his soul draweth near <07126> unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.

Psalms 27:2 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came <07126> upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

Psalms 32:9 Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near <07126> unto thee.

Psalms 65:4 Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach <07126> unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple.

Psalms 69:18 Draw nigh <07126> unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.

Psalms 72:10 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer <07126> gifts.

Psalms 91:10 There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh <07126> thy dwelling.

Psalms 119:150 They draw nigh <07126> that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law.

Psalms 119:169 TAU. Let my cry come near <07126> before thee, O LORD: give me understanding according to thy word.

Proverbs 5:8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh <07126> the door of her house:

Isaiah 5:8 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay <07126> field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!

Isaiah 5:19 That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh <07126> and come, that we may know it!

Isaiah 8:3 And I went <07126> unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.

Isaiah 26:17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near <07126> the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.

Isaiah 34:1 Come near <07126>, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.

Isaiah 41:1 Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near <07126> together to judgment.

Isaiah 41:5 The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near <07126>, and came.

Isaiah 41:21 Produce <07126> your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.

Isaiah 46:13 I bring near <07126> my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.

Isaiah 48:16 Come <07126> ye near <07126> unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.

Isaiah 54:14 In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near <07126> thee.

Isaiah 57:3 But draw near <07126> hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.

Isaiah 65:5 Which say, Stand <07126> by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.

Jeremiah 30:21 And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near <07126>, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the LORD.

Lamentations 3:57 Thou drewest near <07126> in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.

Lamentations 4:18 They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near <07126>, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

Ezekiel 9:1 He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near <07126>, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.

Ezekiel 12:23 Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand <07126>, and the effect of every vision.

Ezekiel 18:6 And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour’s wife, neither hath come near <07126> to a menstruous woman,

Ezekiel 22:4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near <07126>, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.

Ezekiel 36:8 But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand <07126> to come.

Ezekiel 37:7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together <07126>, bone to his bone.

Ezekiel 37:17 And join <07126> them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.

Ezekiel 42:14 When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister; for they are holy; and shall put on other garments, and shall approach <07126> to those things which are for the people.

Ezekiel 43:22 And on the second day thou shalt offer <07126> a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullock.

Ezekiel 43:23 When thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou shalt offer <07126> a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.

Ezekiel 43:24 And thou shalt offer <07126> them before the LORD, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto the LORD.

Ezekiel 44:7 In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer <07126> my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.

Ezekiel 44:15 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near <07126> to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer <07126> unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD:

Ezekiel 44:16 They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near <07126> to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.

Ezekiel 44:27 And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, unto the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer <07126> his sin offering, saith the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 46:4 And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer <07126> unto the LORD in the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish.

Hosea 7:6 For they have made ready <07126> their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.

Jonah 1:6 So the shipmaster came <07126> to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.

Zephaniah 3:2 She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near <07126> to her God.

Haggai 2:14 Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer <07126> there is unclean.

Malachi 1:8 And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer <07126> it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.

Malachi 3:5 And I will come near <07126> to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

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↑ John 5:46 For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.
↑ 2 Thessalonians 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
↑ Luke 13:27 But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all [ye] workers of iniquity.
↑ Matthew 21:43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.
↑ John 19:15 But they cried out, Away with [him], away with [him], crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.
↑ Luke 22:29 And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me;
↑ Luke 12:32 Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
↑ 2 Timothy 3:13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
↑ Matthew 6:7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen [do]: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
↑ Acts 6:1 "And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration."
↑ Application is a form of prayer.
↑ Matthew 11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
↑ Luke 16:16 The law and the prophets [were] until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
↑ "But when a new generation arises and the democracy falls into the hands of the grandchildren of its founders, they have become so accustomed to freedom and equality that they no longer value them, and begin to aim at pre-eminence; and it is chiefly those of ample fortune who fall into this error. 6 So when they begin to lust for power and cannot attain it through themselves or their own good qualities, they ruin their estates, tempting and corrupting the people in every possible way. 7 And hence when by their foolish thirst for reputation they have created among the masses an appetite for gifts and the habit of receiving them, democracy in its turn is abolished and changes into a rule of force and violence. 8 For the people, having grown accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others, as soon as they find a leader who is enterprising but is excluded from the houses of office by his penury, institute the rule of violence; 9 and now uniting their forces massacre, banish, and plunder, until they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch" Polybius: The Histories (composed at Rome around 130 BC)Fragments of Book VI, p289
↑ Babylonian Talmud, Sukkah 49
↑ Luke 3:11 "He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise."
↑ Justin Martyr's "First Apology", Chapter LXVII
↑ Justin Martyr's "First Apology", Chapter LXVII
↑ John 9:22 "These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue
Anyone being baptized by the apostles were going to be "put out" of the system of Corban set up by Herod and the Pharisees. Their Corban was "making the word of God to none effect."
They would now have to look to the "called out" of Christ who preached something called the Kingdom of God for the daily ministration through pure religion.
The Corban of Christ was unspotted by the world of Herod and the "legal charity" of the Pharisees nor the "free bread" offered to them by the "savior" Caesar of the world of Rome which were both "making the word of God to none effect."
↑ Kingdom Taken
Matthew 2:6 "And thou Bethlehem, [in] the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor(2233), that shall rule my people Israel."

Matthew 9:16 "No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse. 17 Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved." Jesus did not just reform the kingdom.

Matthew 21:43 "Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof." Jesus would take it as priest and king.
Luke 13:9 "And if it bear fruit, [well]: and if not, [then] after that thou shalt cut it down." The Corbans of the world were covetous practices

John 19:15...19 "But they cried out, Away with [him], away with [him], crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar." The kingdom taken by the words of their own mouth.

John 15:4 "Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me." The people must seek The Way.

John 15:8 "Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples."

Luke 12:32 "Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom."

Luke 22:29 "And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me;"

Mark 15:26 And the superscription of his accusation was written over, THE KING OF THE JEWS."

Acts 17:7 "Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus."

1 Peter 2:9 "But ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:"

See Taking and Giving the Kingdom
↑ Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter 3
↑ Matthew 8:10 "When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel."
↑ Matthew 11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
↑ Luke 16:16 The law and the prophets [were] until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
↑ Context and alternate translation: "But when a new generation arises and the democracy falls into the hands of the grandchildren of its founders, they have become so accustomed to freedom and equality that they no longer value them, and begin to aim at pre-eminence; and it is chiefly those of ample fortune who fall into this error. 6 So when they begin to lust for power and cannot attain it through themselves or their own good qualities, they ruin their estates, tempting and corrupting the people in every possible way. 7 And hence when by their foolish thirst for reputation they have created among the masses an appetite for gifts and the habit of receiving them, democracy in its turn is abolished and changes into a rule of force and violence. 8 For the people, having grown accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others, as soon as they find a leader who is enterprising but is excluded from the houses of office by his penury, institute the rule of violence; 9 and now uniting their forces massacre, banish, and plunder, until they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch." Polybius: The Histories (composed at Rome around 130 BC)Fragments of Book VI, p289 See also Loeb Classical Library edition, 1922 thru 1927
↑ John 5:46 For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.
↑ 2 Thessalonians 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
↑ Luke 13:27 But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all [ye] workers of iniquity.
↑ Fifth part
Genesis 47:24 "And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth [part] unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones. 25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants. 26 And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, [that] Pharaoh should have the fifth [part]; except the land of the priests only, [which] became not Pharaoh’s."
It should also be noted this was the beginning of the bondage of Egypt but in verse 22 "Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands."
↑ A Freewill offering is charity which is love.
Exodus 25:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering<08641>: of every man that giveth it willingly<05068> with his heart ye shall take my offering<08641>.

Exodus 35:5 Take ye from among you an offering<08641> unto the LORD: whosoever [is] of a willing<05081> heart, let him bring it, an offering<08641> of the LORD; gold, and silver, and brass,

Exodus 35:10 And every wise hearted among you shall come, and make all that the LORD hath commanded;

Exodus 35:21 And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing<05068>, [and] they brought the LORD’S offering<08641> to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all his service, and for the holy garments.

Exodus 35:29 The children of Israel brought a willing offering<05071> unto the LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing<05068> to bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses.

Exodus 36:3 And they received of Moses all the offering<08641>, which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it [withal]. And they brought yet unto him free offerings <05071> every morning.

Leviticus 1:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering <07133-Corban> unto the LORD, ye shall bring your offering <07133-Corban> of the cattle, [even] of the herd, and of the flock. 3 If his offering [be] a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will <07522> at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD.

Leviticus 2:4 "And if thou bring an oblation <07133> of a meat offering baken in the oven, [it shall be] unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil. 5 And if thy oblation <07133-Corban> [be] a meat offering [baken] in a pan, it shall be [of] fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil.

Leviticus 7:16 But if the sacrifice of his offering [be] a vow, or a voluntary offering <05071>, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten:

Leviticus 22:18 Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whatsoever [he be] of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer his oblation<07133-Corban> for all his vows, and for all his freewill offerings<05071>, which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt offering;

Deuteronomy 16:10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering<05071> of thine hand, which thou shalt give [unto the LORD thy God], according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:

Ezra 7:13 I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and [of] his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill <05069> to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee....15 And to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counsellors have freely offered <05069> unto the God of Israel, whose habitation [is] in Jerusalem, 16 And all the silver and gold that thou canst find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill offering <05069> of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly <05069> for the house of their God which [is] in Jerusalem:
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Table as a snare
Psalms 69:22-23 “Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. 23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake."”

Romans 11:9 “And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:”

Proverbs 23:1 "When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what [is] before thee: 2 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. 3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat."

Exodus 23:32 "Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. 33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee."

Exodus 34:12 "Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:"

Deuteronomy 7:16 "And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that [will be] a snare unto thee."

Judges 2:2 "And ye shall make no league [covenant] with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?"

Proverbs 1:10 "My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not."

Proverbs 6:2 “Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.” Swear not

Luke 21:34 "And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and [so] that day come upon you unawares. 35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth."

1 Timothy 6:9 "But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and [into] many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows."
- "Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?" Isaiah 40:21 is about the message of John the Baptist who was "The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God" Isaiah 40:3 to avoid the "snare" of the legal charity of the welfare state which which makes the word of God to none effect bringing man back into captivity as human resources.
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Fathers of the earth
Matthew 23:9 "And call no [man] your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven."

Matthew 6:8 "Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. 9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. 10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as [it is] in heaven. 11 Give us this day our daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen."

Matthew 7:21 "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven."

Matthew 12:50 "For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother."

John 14:26 "But the Comforter, [which is] the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you."

Romans 8:15 "For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father."

2 Corinthians 6:18 "And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."

1 John 3:1 ¶ "Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not."
- The Fathers of the earth assume the natural role of the father of the family. Like the Conscripti Patri or the Patronus of Rome who become the benefactors of the masses offering them benefits and dainties from their civil tables of social welfare which are not only a snare, but destroy liberty, making the people merchandise. The Church established by Jesus would seek to have a daily ministration of Pure Religion through fervent charity.
↑ Two tables
Psalms 69:22 Let their table become a snare before them: and [that which should have been] for [their] welfare, [let it become] a trap. 23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake. 24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them. 25 Let their habitation be desolate; [and] let none dwell in their tents."

Romans 11:8 "(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day. 9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them: 10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway."

1 Corinthians 10:20 "But [I say], that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. 21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils." (See the sacrifice of fools in Ecclesiastes 5:1)

Acts 6:2 Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples [unto them], and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables. (see "portion to seven" Ecclesiastes 11:2 and Acts 6.)

Luke 22:30 That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Isaiah 28:8 For all tables are full of vomit [and] filthiness, [so that there is] no place [clean]. 9 ¶ Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? [them that are] weaned from the milk, [and] drawn from the breasts. 10 For precept [must be] upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little:

Malachi 1:7 Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD [is] contemptible.

Malachi 1:12 But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD [is] polluted; and the fruit thereof, [even] his meat, [is] contemptible.

Malachi 2:2 "If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay [it] to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings<01293>: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay [it] to heart." See wages of unrighteousness and snare.

Isaiah 8:14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

1 Peter 2:8 "And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, [even to them] which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed. 14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:" (see merchandise)
↑ Covet not
Exodus 20:17 "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that [is] thy neighbour’s."

Deuteronomy 5:21 "Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any [thing] that [is] thy neighbour’s."

Micah 2:2 "And they covet fields, and take [them] by violence; and houses, and take [them] away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage." Property and inheritance tax.

Habakkuk 2:9 "Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil! 10 Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul."

Mark 7:20 "And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man."

Romans 7:7 "What shall we say then? [Is] the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet."

Romans 13:9 "For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if [there be] any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."

1 Corinthians 5:10 "Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat."

1 Corinthians 6:10 "Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God." See Not inherit the kingdom

Ephesians 5:5 "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God." See Not inherit the kingdom

2 Timothy 3:2 "For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

2 Peter 2:3 "And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not."

2 Peter 2:14 "Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:"

Colossians 3:5 "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:"
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Covetousness is idolatry
Colossians 3:5 "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:"

Ephesians 5:5 "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God."

1 Corinthians 5:10 "Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat."
- For it is written that the tables of dainties provided by rulers of the world are a snare because they cause the masses to bite one another through government systems of legal charity which are covetous practices which are a form of fornication or adultery where the people are devoured as merchandise, curse children and are "entangled again in the yoke of bondage" with the aid of the false religion of the whore who rides the beast.
↑ the sixth president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and the College at Southeastern in Wake Forest, North Carolina, United States. Born 1957. Education: Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, The University of Texas at Arlington, Criswell College.
↑ ^37.0 ^37.1 The Deadly Lure of Legalism by Daniel Akin, 2011, 08
↑ Piety is often defined today as a devotion to God or to religious practices but piety has been defined as the duty. Those who obey God are devoted to Him, those who do not do what He says are not devoted to God.
↑ Religion “Real piety in practice, consisting in the performance of all known duties to God and our fellow men.” John Bouvier's 1856 Law Dictionary
↑ John 9:22 These [words] spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue."
↑ Titulus Venetus a census took place around AD 5-6 and was typical of those held in the Roman Empire
↑ Charles Caldwell Ryrie (1925 to 2016) was an American Bible scholar and Christian theologian. He served as professor of systematic theology and dean of doctoral studies at Dallas Theological Seminary and as president and professor at what is now Cairn University.
↑ Acts 6:1 "And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration."
↑ 1 Peter 2:4 "To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, 5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. 6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. 7 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner, 8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed. 9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.
↑ Samuel Adams, Our Sacred Honor, Bennett, 217, 1779 - letter to James Warren.
↑ Isaiah 1:23 Thy princes [are] rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
↑ Traditions
Matthew 15:2 "Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition <3862> of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. 3 But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition <3862>?"

Matthew 15:6 "And honour not his father or his mother, [he shall be free]. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition <3862>."

Mark 7:3 "For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash [their] hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition <3862> of the elders."

Mark 7:5 "Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition <3862> of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?"

Mark 7:8 "For laying aside the commandmentof God, ye hold the tradition <3862> of men, [as] the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do. 9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition <3862>. 10 For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death: 11 But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, [It is] Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; [he shall be free]. 12 And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother; 13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition <3862>, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye."

1 Corinthians 11:1 "Be ye followers of me, even as I also [am] of Christ. 2 Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances <3862>, as I delivered [them] to you. 3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman [is] the man; and the head of Christ [is] God."

Galatians 1:14 "And profited in the Jews’ religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions <3862> of my fathers."

Colossians 2:8 "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition <3862> of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ."

2 Thessalonians 2:15 "Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions <3862> which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle."

2 Thessalonians 3:6 "Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition <3862> which he received of us."

Psalms 33:10 "The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices <מַחְשְׁב֥וֹת 04284 maḥšəḇōṯ> of the people of none effect."
↑ Isaiah 40:23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
↑ Ephesians 4:8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men....Ephesians 4:11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; 12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
↑ Isaiah 40:27 "Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God? 28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. 29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength."
↑ "We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.
↑ "Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
↑ Revelation 18:1 ¶ And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
↑ Luke 16:9 And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.
↑ Christian Charity in the Ancient Church By Gerhard Uhlhorn

[1] John 5:46 For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.

[2] 2 Thessalonians 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

[3] Luke 13:27 But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all [ye] workers of iniquity.

[4] Matthew 21:43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.

[5] John 19:15 But they cried out, Away with [him], away with [him], crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.

[6] Luke 22:29 And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me;

[7] Luke 12:32 Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

[8] 2 Timothy 3:13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

[9] Matthew 6:7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen [do]: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

[10] Acts 6:1 "And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration."

[11] Application is a form of prayer.

[12] Matthew 11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.

[13] Luke 16:16 The law and the prophets [were] until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.

[14] "But when a new generation arises and the democracy falls into the hands of the grandchildren of its founders, they have become so accustomed to freedom and equality that they no longer value them, and begin to aim at pre-eminence; and it is chiefly those of ample fortune who fall into this error. 6 So when they begin to lust for power and cannot attain it through themselves or their own good qualities, they ruin their estates, tempting and corrupting the people in every possible way. 7 And hence when by their foolish thirst for reputation they have created among the masses an appetite for gifts and the habit of receiving them, democracy in its turn is abolished and changes into a rule of force and violence. 8 For the people, having grown accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others, as soon as they find a leader who is enterprising but is excluded from the houses of office by his penury, institute the rule of violence; 9 and now uniting their forces massacre, banish, and plunder, until they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch" Polybius: The Histories (composed at Rome around 130 BC)Fragments of Book VI, p289

[15] Babylonian Talmud, Sukkah 49

[16] Luke 3:11 "He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise."

[17] Justin Martyr's "First Apology", Chapter LXVII

[18] Justin Martyr's "First Apology", Chapter LXVII

[putout-19] John 9:22 "These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue
Anyone being baptized by the apostles were going to be "put out" of the system of Corban set up by Herod and the Pharisees. Their Corban was "making the word of God to none effect."
They would now have to look to the "called out" of Christ who preached something called the Kingdom of God for the daily ministration through pure religion.
The Corban of Christ was unspotted by the world of Herod and the "legal charity" of the Pharisees nor the "free bread" offered to them by the "savior" Caesar of the world of Rome which were both "making the word of God to none effect."

[ktaken-20] Kingdom Taken
Matthew 2:6 "And thou Bethlehem, [in] the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor(2233), that shall rule my people Israel."

Matthew 9:16 "No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse. 17 Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved." Jesus did not just reform the kingdom.

Matthew 21:43 "Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof." Jesus would take it as priest and king.
Luke 13:9 "And if it bear fruit, [well]: and if not, [then] after that thou shalt cut it down." The Corbans of the world were covetous practices

John 19:15...19 "But they cried out, Away with [him], away with [him], crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar." The kingdom taken by the words of their own mouth.

John 15:4 "Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me." The people must seek The Way.

John 15:8 "Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples."

Luke 12:32 "Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom."

Luke 22:29 "And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me;"

Mark 15:26 And the superscription of his accusation was written over, THE KING OF THE JEWS."

Acts 17:7 "Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus."

1 Peter 2:9 "But ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:"

See Taking and Giving the Kingdom

[21] Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter 3

[22] Matthew 8:10 "When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel."

[23] Matthew 11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.

[24] Luke 16:16 The law and the prophets [were] until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.

[25] Context and alternate translation: "But when a new generation arises and the democracy falls into the hands of the grandchildren of its founders, they have become so accustomed to freedom and equality that they no longer value them, and begin to aim at pre-eminence; and it is chiefly those of ample fortune who fall into this error. 6 So when they begin to lust for power and cannot attain it through themselves or their own good qualities, they ruin their estates, tempting and corrupting the people in every possible way. 7 And hence when by their foolish thirst for reputation they have created among the masses an appetite for gifts and the habit of receiving them, democracy in its turn is abolished and changes into a rule of force and violence. 8 For the people, having grown accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others, as soon as they find a leader who is enterprising but is excluded from the houses of office by his penury, institute the rule of violence; 9 and now uniting their forces massacre, banish, and plunder, until they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch." Polybius: The Histories (composed at Rome around 130 BC)Fragments of Book VI, p289 See also Loeb Classical Library edition, 1922 thru 1927

[26] John 5:46 For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.

[27] 2 Thessalonians 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

[28] Luke 13:27 But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all [ye] workers of iniquity.

[fifthpart-29] Fifth part
Genesis 47:24 "And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth [part] unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones. 25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants. 26 And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, [that] Pharaoh should have the fifth [part]; except the land of the priests only, [which] became not Pharaoh’s."
It should also be noted this was the beginning of the bondage of Egypt but in verse 22 "Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands."

[Freewillo-30] A Freewill offering is charity which is love.
Exodus 25:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering<08641>: of every man that giveth it willingly<05068> with his heart ye shall take my offering<08641>.

Exodus 35:5 Take ye from among you an offering<08641> unto the LORD: whosoever [is] of a willing<05081> heart, let him bring it, an offering<08641> of the LORD; gold, and silver, and brass,

Exodus 35:10 And every wise hearted among you shall come, and make all that the LORD hath commanded;

Exodus 35:21 And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing<05068>, [and] they brought the LORD’S offering<08641> to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all his service, and for the holy garments.

Exodus 35:29 The children of Israel brought a willing offering<05071> unto the LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing<05068> to bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses.

Exodus 36:3 And they received of Moses all the offering<08641>, which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it [withal]. And they brought yet unto him free offerings <05071> every morning.

Leviticus 1:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering <07133-Corban> unto the LORD, ye shall bring your offering <07133-Corban> of the cattle, [even] of the herd, and of the flock. 3 If his offering [be] a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will <07522> at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD.

Leviticus 2:4 "And if thou bring an oblation <07133> of a meat offering baken in the oven, [it shall be] unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil. 5 And if thy oblation <07133-Corban> [be] a meat offering [baken] in a pan, it shall be [of] fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil.

Leviticus 7:16 But if the sacrifice of his offering [be] a vow, or a voluntary offering <05071>, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten:

Leviticus 22:18 Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whatsoever [he be] of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer his oblation<07133-Corban> for all his vows, and for all his freewill offerings<05071>, which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt offering;

Deuteronomy 16:10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering<05071> of thine hand, which thou shalt give [unto the LORD thy God], according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:

Ezra 7:13 I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and [of] his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill <05069> to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee....15 And to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counsellors have freely offered <05069> unto the God of Israel, whose habitation [is] in Jerusalem, 16 And all the silver and gold that thou canst find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill offering <05069> of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly <05069> for the house of their God which [is] in Jerusalem:

[snaretrap-31] Table as a snare
Psalms 69:22-23 “Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. 23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake."”

Romans 11:9 “And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:”

Proverbs 23:1 "When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what [is] before thee: 2 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. 3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat."

Exodus 23:32 "Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. 33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee."

Exodus 34:12 "Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:"

Deuteronomy 7:16 "And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that [will be] a snare unto thee."

Judges 2:2 "And ye shall make no league [covenant] with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?"

Proverbs 1:10 "My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not."

Proverbs 6:2 “Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.” Swear not

Luke 21:34 "And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and [so] that day come upon you unawares. 35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth."

1 Timothy 6:9 "But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and [into] many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows."

"Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?" Isaiah 40:21 is about the message of John the Baptist who was "The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God" Isaiah 40:3 to avoid the "snare" of the legal charity of the welfare state which which makes the word of God to none effect bringing man back into captivity as human resources.

[32] "Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?" Isaiah 40:21 is about the message of John the Baptist who was "The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God" Isaiah 40:3 to avoid the "snare" of the legal charity of the welfare state which which makes the word of God to none effect bringing man back into captivity as human resources.

[fatherruler-32] Fathers of the earth
Matthew 23:9 "And call no [man] your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven."

Matthew 6:8 "Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. 9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. 10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as [it is] in heaven. 11 Give us this day our daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen."

Matthew 7:21 "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven."

Matthew 12:50 "For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother."

John 14:26 "But the Comforter, [which is] the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you."

Romans 8:15 "For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father."

2 Corinthians 6:18 "And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."

1 John 3:1 ¶ "Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not."

The Fathers of the earth assume the natural role of the father of the family. Like the Conscripti Patri or the Patronus of Rome who become the benefactors of the masses offering them benefits and dainties from their civil tables of social welfare which are not only a snare, but destroy liberty, making the people merchandise. The Church established by Jesus would seek to have a daily ministration of Pure Religion through fervent charity.

[34] The Fathers of the earth assume the natural role of the father of the family. Like the Conscripti Patri or the Patronus of Rome who become the benefactors of the masses offering them benefits and dainties from their civil tables of social welfare which are not only a snare, but destroy liberty, making the people merchandise. The Church established by Jesus would seek to have a daily ministration of Pure Religion through fervent charity.

[2tables-33] Two tables
Psalms 69:22 Let their table become a snare before them: and [that which should have been] for [their] welfare, [let it become] a trap. 23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake. 24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them. 25 Let their habitation be desolate; [and] let none dwell in their tents."

Romans 11:8 "(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day. 9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them: 10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway."

1 Corinthians 10:20 "But [I say], that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. 21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils." (See the sacrifice of fools in Ecclesiastes 5:1)

Acts 6:2 Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples [unto them], and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables. (see "portion to seven" Ecclesiastes 11:2 and Acts 6.)

Luke 22:30 That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Isaiah 28:8 For all tables are full of vomit [and] filthiness, [so that there is] no place [clean]. 9 ¶ Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? [them that are] weaned from the milk, [and] drawn from the breasts. 10 For precept [must be] upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little:

Malachi 1:7 Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD [is] contemptible.

Malachi 1:12 But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD [is] polluted; and the fruit thereof, [even] his meat, [is] contemptible.

Malachi 2:2 "If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay [it] to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings<01293>: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay [it] to heart." See wages of unrighteousness and snare.

Isaiah 8:14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

1 Peter 2:8 "And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, [even to them] which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed. 14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:" (see merchandise)

[covetnot-34] Covet not
Exodus 20:17 "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that [is] thy neighbour’s."

Deuteronomy 5:21 "Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any [thing] that [is] thy neighbour’s."

Micah 2:2 "And they covet fields, and take [them] by violence; and houses, and take [them] away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage." Property and inheritance tax.

Habakkuk 2:9 "Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil! 10 Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul."

Mark 7:20 "And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man."

Romans 7:7 "What shall we say then? [Is] the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet."

Romans 13:9 "For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if [there be] any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."

1 Corinthians 5:10 "Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat."

1 Corinthians 6:10 "Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God." See Not inherit the kingdom

Ephesians 5:5 "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God." See Not inherit the kingdom

2 Timothy 3:2 "For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

2 Peter 2:3 "And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not."

2 Peter 2:14 "Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:"

Colossians 3:5 "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:"

[Isidolatry-35] Covetousness is idolatry
Colossians 3:5 "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:"

Ephesians 5:5 "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God."

1 Corinthians 5:10 "Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat."

For it is written that the tables of dainties provided by rulers of the world are a snare because they cause the masses to bite one another through government systems of legal charity which are covetous practices which are a form of fornication or adultery where the people are devoured as merchandise, curse children and are "entangled again in the yoke of bondage" with the aid of the false religion of the whore who rides the beast.

[38] For it is written that the tables of dainties provided by rulers of the world are a snare because they cause the masses to bite one another through government systems of legal charity which are covetous practices which are a form of fornication or adultery where the people are devoured as merchandise, curse children and are "entangled again in the yoke of bondage" with the aid of the false religion of the whore who rides the beast.

[36] the sixth president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and the College at Southeastern in Wake Forest, North Carolina, United States. Born 1957. Education: Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, The University of Texas at Arlington, Criswell College.

[legallure-37] 37.0 ^37.1 The Deadly Lure of Legalism by Daniel Akin, 2011, 08

[piety-38] Piety is often defined today as a devotion to God or to religious practices but piety has been defined as the duty. Those who obey God are devoted to Him, those who do not do what He says are not devoted to God.

[Bouvier-39] Religion “Real piety in practice, consisting in the performance of all known duties to God and our fellow men.” John Bouvier's 1856 Law Dictionary

[40] John 9:22 These [words] spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue."

[41] Titulus Venetus a census took place around AD 5-6 and was typical of those held in the Roman Empire

[42] Charles Caldwell Ryrie (1925 to 2016) was an American Bible scholar and Christian theologian. He served as professor of systematic theology and dean of doctoral studies at Dallas Theological Seminary and as president and professor at what is now Cairn University.

[43] Acts 6:1 "And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration."

[44] 1 Peter 2:4 "To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, 5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. 6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. 7 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner, 8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed. 9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.

[45] Samuel Adams, Our Sacred Honor, Bennett, 217, 1779 - letter to James Warren.

[46] Isaiah 1:23 Thy princes [are] rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

[trads-47] Traditions
Matthew 15:2 "Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition <3862> of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. 3 But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition <3862>?"

Matthew 15:6 "And honour not his father or his mother, [he shall be free]. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition <3862>."

Mark 7:3 "For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash [their] hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition <3862> of the elders."

Mark 7:5 "Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition <3862> of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?"

Mark 7:8 "For laying aside the commandmentof God, ye hold the tradition <3862> of men, [as] the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do. 9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition <3862>. 10 For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death: 11 But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, [It is] Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; [he shall be free]. 12 And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother; 13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition <3862>, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye."

1 Corinthians 11:1 "Be ye followers of me, even as I also [am] of Christ. 2 Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances <3862>, as I delivered [them] to you. 3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman [is] the man; and the head of Christ [is] God."

Galatians 1:14 "And profited in the Jews’ religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions <3862> of my fathers."

Colossians 2:8 "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition <3862> of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ."

2 Thessalonians 2:15 "Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions <3862> which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle."

2 Thessalonians 3:6 "Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition <3862> which he received of us."

Psalms 33:10 "The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices <מַחְשְׁב֥וֹת 04284 maḥšəḇōṯ> of the people of none effect."

[48] Isaiah 40:23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

[49] Ephesians 4:8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men....Ephesians 4:11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; 12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

[50] Isaiah 40:27 "Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God? 28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. 29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength."

[51] "We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.

[52] "Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

[53] Revelation 18:1 ¶ And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.

[54] Luke 16:9 And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.

[55] Christian Charity in the Ancient Church By Gerhard Uhlhorn

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