Acts 15:10

Weymouth NT

Now, therefore, why try an experiment upon God, by laying on the necks of these disciples a yoke which neither our forefathers nor we have been able to bear?

Cross References

Matthew 23:4

Heavy and cumbrous burdens they bind together and load men's shoulders with them, while as for themselves, not with one finger do they choose to lift them.

Matthew 4:7

»Again it is written,« replied Jesus, »`Thou shalt not put the Lord thy God to the proof.'«

Acts 5:9

»How was it,« replied Peter, »that you two agreed to try an experiment upon the Spirit of the Lord? The men who have buried your husband are already at the door, and they will carry you out.«

Galatians 4:9

Now, however, having come to know God –or rather to be known by Him– how is it you are again turning back to weak and worthless rudimentary notions to which you are once more willing to be enslaved?

Galatians 5:1

Christ having made us gloriously free–stand fast and do not again be hampered with the yoke of slavery.

Hebrews 3:9

where your forefathers so sorely tried My patience and saw all that I did during forty years.

Hebrews 9:9

And this is a figure –for the time now present– answering to which both gifts and sacrifices are offered, unable though they are to give complete freedom from sin to him who ministers.