Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:

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Forasmuch

Isaiah 10:6
I will send him against a godless nation;
I will command him to go
against a people destined for My rage,
to take spoils, to plunder,
and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
Isaiah 48:1
“Listen to this, house of Jacob—
those who are called by the name Israel
and have descended from Judah,
who swear by the name of Yahweh
and declare the God of Israel,
but not in truth or righteousness.
Isaiah 58:2
They seek Me day after day
and delight to know My ways,
like a nation that does what is right
and does not abandon the justice of their God.
They ask Me for righteous judgments;
they delight in the nearness of God.”
Psalm 17:1
A Davidic prayer.Lord, hear a just cause;
pay attention to my cry;
listen to my prayer—
from lips free of deceit.
Jeremiah 3:10
Yet in spite of all this, her treacherous sister Judah didn’t return to Me with all her heart—only in pretense.”

This is the Lord’s declaration.
Jeremiah 5:2
When they say, “As the Lord lives,”
they are swearing falsely.
Jeremiah 12:2
You planted them, and they have taken root.
They have grown and produced fruit.
You are ever on their lips,
but far from their conscience.
Jeremiah 42:2
Jeremiah the prophet and said, “May our petition come before you; pray to the Lord your God on our behalf, on behalf of this entire remnant (for few of us remain out of the many, as you can see with your own eyes),
Ezekiel 33:31
So My people come to you in crowds, sit in front of you, and hear your words, but they don’t obey them. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest profit.
Matthew 15:7
Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you when he said:

Their fear

Proverbs 30:6
Don’t add to His words,
or He will rebuke you, and you will be proved a liar.
Matthew 15:2
“Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat!”
Mark 7:2
They observed that some of His disciples were eating their bread with unclean—that is, unwashed—hands.
Colossians 2:22
All these regulations refer to what is destroyed by being used up; they are commands and doctrines of men.

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James 1:8
An indecisive man is unstable in all his ways.

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