Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus to register all the empire for taxes.

As they went through the towns, they passed on the decrees that had been decided on by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem for the Gentile believers to obey.

and Jason has welcomed them as guests! They are all acting against Caesar’s decrees, saying there is another king named Jesus!”

He has destroyed what was against us, a certificate of indebtedness expressed in decrees opposed to us. He has taken it away by nailing it to the cross.

when he nullified in his flesh the law of commandments in decrees. He did this to create in himself one new man out of two, thus making peace,