Hebrews 13:9 Cross References - Goodspeed

⁹ You must not be carried away with strange varieties of teaching. The true way to steadfastness of heart is through God's mercy, not through scruples about food, which have never done their adherents any good.

⁴ Jesus answered, "Take care that no one misleads you about this.

²⁴ for false Christs and false prophets will appear, and they will show great signs and wonders to mislead God's chosen people if they can.

¹⁴ But Peter said, "Never, sir! For I have never eaten anything that was not ceremonially cleansed." ¹⁵ The voice came to him again a second time, "Do not call what God has cleansed unclean." ¹⁶ This happened three times; then the thing was taken right up into the sky.

³⁰ and from your own number men will appear and teach perversions of the truth in order to draw the disciples away after them.

³² Now I commit you to the Lord, and to the message of his favor, which will build you up and give you a place among those whom God has consecrated.

² One man's faith allows him to eat anything, while the overscrupulous man eats nothing but vegetables.

⁶ The man who observes the day does it in the Lord's honor. The man who eats does it in the Lord's honor, for he gives God thanks, and the man who abstains does it in the Lord's honor, and gives him thanks.

¹⁷ The Kingdom of God is not a matter of what we eat or drink, but of uprightness, peace, and happiness through the possession of the holy Spirit.

¹⁷ I beg you, brothers, to be on the watch for those who introduce divisions and difficulties, in opposition to the instruction that you were given, and to avoid them. ¹⁸ Such men are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own base passions, and with their plausible and flattering talk they deceive simple-minded people.

¹³ It is true, food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for the food, but God will put an end to both of them. But the body is not meant for immorality, but for the service of the Lord, and the Lord is for the body to serve.

⁸ But food is not going to affect our standing with God. We are none the worse if we do not eat it, and none the better if we do.

²¹ But it is God who guarantees us and you to Christ; he has anointed us

¹¹ And why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do. ¹² And I shall go on doing as I do, so as to cut the ground from under those who want to make out that in their boasted apostleship they work on the same terms that I do. ¹³ Such men are sham apostles, dishonest workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ. ¹⁴ And no wonder, for even Satan himself masquerades as a shining angel. ¹⁵ So it is nothing strange if his servants also masquerade as servants of uprightness. But their doom will fit their actions.

⁶ I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from him who called you by the mercy of Christ, to some different good news— ⁷ not that there is any other, only that there are some people who are trying to unsettle you and want to turn the good news of the Christ around. ⁸ But even if we or an angel from heaven preach to you good news that contradicts the good news we have preached to you, a curse upon him! ⁹ We have said it before, and I repeat it now—if anyone is preaching to you good news that contradicts the good news you have already received, a curse upon him!

¹ But if a man is caught doing something wrong, brothers, you are spiritual, and you must set him right, in a spirit of gentleness. Think of yourself, for you may be tempted too.

¹⁴ We must not be babies any longer, blown about and swung around by every wind of doctrine through the trickery of men with their ingenuity in inventing error.

⁶ Whatever anyone may say in the way of worthless arguments to deceive you, these are the things that are bringing God's anger down upon the disobedient.

⁴ What I mean is, let nobody mislead you by specious arguments.

⁷ You must be rooted and built up in him and made strong in faith, just as you were taught to be, overflowing with it in your gratitude. ⁸ Take care that nobody exploits you through the pretensions of philosophy, guided by human tradition, following material ways of looking at things, instead of following Christ.

¹⁶ So no one can call you to account for what you eat or drink, or do about annual or monthly feasts or Sabbaths. ¹⁷ That was all only the shadow of something that was to follow; the reality is found in Christ. ¹⁸ No one can put you in the wrong by persisting in studied humility and the worship of angels, being absorbed in the visions he has seen, and groundlessly conceited over his mere human mind. ¹⁹ Such people lose their connection with the head, from which the whole body through its ligaments and sinews must be governed and united if it is to grow in the divine way. ²⁰ If you have died with Christ to material ways of looking at things, why do you act as though you still belonged to the world, and submit to rules like

² not to let your minds be too easily unsettled or wrought up, by any message of the Spirit or any utterance or letter purporting to be from me, to the effect that the Day of the Lord has already come.

¹⁷ encourage you and strengthen you to do and say everything that is right.

¹ The Spirit distinctly says that in later times some will turn away from the faith, and devote their attention to deceitful spirits and the things that demons teach ² through the pretensions of liars—men with seared consciences ³ who forbid people to marry and insist on abstinence from certain kinds of food that God created for men who believe and understand the truth to enjoy and give thanks for. ⁴ For everything God has created is good, and nothing need be refused, provided it is accepted with thanksgiving, ⁵ for then it is consecrated by prayer and the Scripture used in it.

³ Anyone who teaches different views and does not agree with the wholesome instruction which comes from our Lord Jesus Christ, and with religious teaching ⁴ is a conceited, ignorant person, with a morbid craving for speculations and arguments which result only in envy, quarreling, abuse, base suspicions, ⁵ and mutual irritation between people of depraved minds, who are lost to the truth and think of religion only as a means of gain.

²⁰ Timothy, guard what has been intrusted to you. Keep away from the worldly, empty phrases and contradictions of what they falsely call knowledge,

¹ So you, my son, must find strength in the blessing that comes through Christ Jesus. ² The things you learned from me before many witnesses you must commit to trustworthy men who will be capable of teaching others.

¹⁴ and not study Jewish fictions or commands given by men who reject the truth. ¹⁵ To the pure everything is pure, but to the evil-minded and unbelieving nothing is pure, but their very minds and consciences are unclean.

⁹ And all this looked toward the present time and was symbolic of the fact that the mere offering of material gifts and sacrifices cannot inwardly qualify the worshiper to approach God, ¹⁰ since they have to do only with food and drink and various washings—material regulations in force only until the time for the new order.

¹ Dear friends, do not believe every inspired utterance, but test the utterances to see whether they come from God, for many false prophets have come out into the world.

³ Dear friends, I was just on the point of writing to you about our common salvation, when it became necessary for me to write and appeal to you to come to the defense of the faith that has once for all been intrusted to God's people.

¹² They are stains on your religious meals, where they carouse together, boldly attending to no one but themselves; rainless clouds driven before the wind; leafless trees without fruit, doubly dead, and uprooted;