Acts 15:10
Why then are you testing God, by putting on the neck of the disciples a yoke so hard that not even our fathers or we were strong enough for it?
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- Matt 23:4 : 4 They make hard laws and put great weights on men's backs; but they themselves will not put a finger to them.
- Isa 7:12 : 12 But Ahaz said, I will not put the Lord to the test by making such a request.
- Gal 5:1 : 1 Christ has truly made us free: then keep your free condition and let no man put a yoke on you again.
- Heb 3:9 : 9 When your fathers put me to the test, and saw my works for forty years.
- Heb 9:9 : 9 And this is an image of the present time; when the offerings which are given are not able to make the heart of the worshipper completely clean,
- Exod 17:2 : 2 So the people were angry with Moses, and said, Give us water for drinking. And Moses said, Why are you angry with me? and why do you put God to the test?
- Matt 4:7 : 7 Jesus said to him, Again it is in the Writings, You may not put the Lord your God to the test.
- Matt 11:28-30 : 28 Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke on you and become like me, for I am gentle and without pride, and you will have rest for your souls; 30 For my yoke is good, and the weight I take up is not hard.
- Gal 4:1-5 : 1 But I say that as long as the son is a child, he is in no way different from a servant, though he is lord of all; 2 But is under keepers and managers till the time fixed by the father. 3 So we, when we were young, were kept under the first rules of the world; 4 But when the time had come, God sent out his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, 5 That he might make them free who were under the law, and that we might be given the place of sons.
- Gal 4:9 : 9 But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again?
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