Hebrews 13:9
Good News Translation
Do not let all kinds of strange teachings lead you from the right way. It is good to receive inner strength from God's grace, and not by obeying rules about foods; those who obey these rules have not been helped by them.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings; for it is well for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by regulations about food, which have not benefited those who observe them.

Contemporary English Version
Don't be fooled by any kind of strange teachings. It is better to receive strength from God's gift of undeserved grace than to depend on certain foods. After all, these foods don't really help the people who eat them.

New American Bible
Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teaching. It is good to have our hearts strengthened by grace and not by foods, which do not benefit those who live by them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Be not led away with various and strange doctrines. For it is best that the heart be established with grace, not with meats: which have not profited those that walk in them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Be not led away with various and strange doctrines. For it is best that the heart be established with grace, not with meats: which have not profited those that walk in them.

carried.

Matthew 24:4,24 And Jesus answering, said to them: Take heed that no man seduce you. . . .

Acts 20:30 And of your own selves shall arise men speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

Romans 16:17,18 Now I beseech you, brethren, to mark them who make dissensions and offences contrary to the doctrine which you have learned and avoid them. . . .

2 Corinthians 11:11-15 Wherefore? Because I love you not? God knoweth it. . . .

Galatians 1:6-9 I wonder that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ, unto another gospel. . . .

Ephesians 4:14 That henceforth we be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the wickedness of men, by cunning craftiness by which they lie in wait to deceive.

Ephesians 5:6 Let no man deceive you with vain words. For because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the children of unbelief.

Colossians 2:4,8 Now this I say, that no man may deceive you by loftiness of words. . . .

2 Thessalonians 2:2 That you be not easily moved from your sense nor be terrified, neither by spirit nor by word nor by epistle. as sent from us, as if the day of the Lord were at hand.

1 Timothy 4:1-3 Now the Spirit manifestly saith that in the last times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to spirits of error and doctrines of devils, . . .

1 Timothy 6:3-5,20 If any man teach otherwise and consent not to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and to that doctrine which is according to godliness, . . .

1 John 4:1 Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they be of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

Jude 1:3 Dearly beloved, taking all care to write unto you concerning your common salvation, I was under a necessity to write unto you: to beseech you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.

it is.

Acts 20:32 And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, who is able to build up and to give an inheritance among all the sanctified.

2 Corinthians 1:21 Now he that confirmeth us with you in Christ and that hath anointed us, is God:

Galatians 6:1 Brethren, and if a man be overtaken in any fault, you, who are spiritual, instruct such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

2 Thessalonians 2:17 Exhort your hearts and confirm you in every good work and word.

2 Timothy 2:1,2 Thou therefore, my son, be strong in Christ Jesus: . . .

not with.

Hebrews 9:9,10 Which is a parable of the time present: according to which gifts and sacrifices are offered, which cannot, as to the conscience, make him perfect that serveth, only in meats and in drinks, . . .

Leviticus 11:1-47 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: . . .

Deuteronomy 14:3-21 Eat not the things that are unclean. . . .

Acts 10:14-16 But Peter said: Far be it from me. For I never did eat any thing that is common and unclean. . . .

Romans 14:2,6,17 For one believeth that he may eat all things: but he that is weak, let him eat herbs. . . .

1 Corinthians 6:13 Meat for the belly and the belly for the meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord: and the Lord for the body.

1 Corinthians 8:8 But meat doth not commend us to God. For neither, if we eat, shall we have the more: nor, if we eat not, shall we have the less.

Colossians 2:16-20 Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink or in respect of a festival day or of the new moon or of the sabbaths, . . .

1 Timothy 4:3-5 Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful and by them that have known the truth. . . .

Titus 1:14,15 Not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn themselves away from the truth. . . .

Context
Christ's Unchanging Nature
8Jesus Christ, yesterday, and today: and the same for ever. 9Be not led away with various and strange doctrines. For it is best that the heart be established with grace, not with meats: which have not profited those that walk in them. 10We have an altar whereof they have no power to eat who serve the tabernacle.…
Cross References
Psalm 112:8
His heart is strengthened, he shall not be moved until he look over his enemies.

2 Corinthians 1:21
Now he that confirmeth us with you in Christ and that hath anointed us, is God:

Ephesians 4:14
That henceforth we be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the wickedness of men, by cunning craftiness by which they lie in wait to deceive.

Ephesians 5:6
Let no man deceive you with vain words. For because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the children of unbelief.

Colossians 2:7
Rooted and built up in him and confirmed in the faith, as also you have learned: abounding in him in thanksgiving.

Colossians 2:16
Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink or in respect of a festival day or of the new moon or of the sabbaths,

Hebrews 9:10
And divers washings and justices of the flesh laid on them until the time of correction.

Jude 1:12
These are spots in their banquets, feasting together without fear, feeding themselves: clouds without water, which are carried about by winds: trees of the autumn, unfruitful, twice dead, plucked up by the roots:

Hebrews 13:8
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