The word in Scripture

Ordinance in the Bible

The word ordinance appears 30 times in the King James Version of the Bible. An ordinance is an appointed rule or observance of God. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What ordinance means in the Bible

An ordinance is an appointed rule or observance of God.

Where the word ordinance appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word ordinance appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:”Exodus 12:43

“Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.”Exodus 13:10

“So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.”Joshua 24:25

“And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.”1 Samuel 30:25

“He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.”Psalms 99:7

“The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.”Isaiah 24:5

“Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.”Isaiah 58:2

“Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.”Romans 13:2