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Hebrews 7:18

James Moffatt - New Testament

A previous command is set aside on account of its weakness and uselessness

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For God has done what the Law, weakened here by the flesh, could not do; by sending his own Son in the guise of sinful flesh, to deal with sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

and that by him everyone who believes is absolved from all that the law of Moses never could absolve you from.

(for the Law made nothing perfect), and there is introduced a better Hope, by means of which we can draw near to God.

but now that you know God — or rather, are known by God — how is it you are turning back again to the weakness and poverty of the Elemental spirits? Why do you want to be enslaved all over again by them?

The training of the body is of small service, but religion is of service in all directions; it contains the promise of life both for the present and for the future.

Never let yourselves be carried away with a variety of novel doctrines; for the right thing is to have one's heart strengthened by grace, not by the eating of food — that has never been any use to those who have had recourse to it.

My point is this: the Law which arose four hundred and thirty years later does not repeal a will previously ratified by God, so as to cancel the Promise.

Tell me, you who are keen to be under the Law, will you not listen to the Law?

To take an illustration from human life, my brothers. Once a man's will is ratified, no one else annuls it or adds a codicil to it.

Then 'by this faith' we 'cancel the Law'? Not for one moment! We uphold the Law.

Then the Law is contrary to God's Promises? Never! Had there been any law which had the power of producing life, righteousness would really have been due to law,




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