Gal 4:3, 9, Eph 2:15, Col 2:20-22, Heb 7:16, 9:1 | ESV | STEP | In the same way we also , when we were children , were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world .

Galatians 4:3

3 In the same way we also, when we were children, ^awere enslaved to the elementary principles ^{▼▼Or elemental spirits; also verse 9} of the world.

Galatians 4:9

9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather ^cto be known by God, ^dhow can you turn back again to ^ethe weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?

Ephesians 2:15

15 by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ^fordinances, that he might create in himself one ^gnew man in place of the two, so making peace,

Colossians 2:20-22

20 If with Christ ^hyou died to the ⁱelemental spirits of the world, ^jwhy, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations— 21 ^k“Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch” 22 ( ^lreferring to things that all perish as they are used)—according to ^mhuman precepts and teachings?

Hebrews 7:16

16 who has become a priest, not on the basis of a legal requirement concerning bodily descent, but by the power of an indestructible life.

Hebrews 9:1

The Earthly Holy Place

1 Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and ⁿan earthly place of holiness.