Galatians 4:9

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

Colossians 2:8

8See to it that no one takes you captive by dphilosophy and eempty deceit, according to fhuman tradition, according to the gelemental spirits
Or elementary principles; also verse 20
of the world, and not according to Christ.

Colossians 2:20

20If with Christ iyou died to the jelemental spirits of the world, kwhy, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations

Hebrews 7:16

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