16 Bible Verses about False Worship
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This people draweth nigh to me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
He answering said to them, Well hath Isaiah prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. But in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Which things (though they have indeed a shew of wisdom, in voluntary worship and humility, and not sparing the body) yet are not of any value, but are to the satisfying of the flesh.
And when thou prayest, thou shall not be as the hypocrites; for they love to pray, standing in the synagogues, and in the corners of the streets, that they may appear to men: verily I say unto you, they have their reward.
Two men went up into the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed thus, God I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week: I give tythes of all that I possess.read more.
And the publican standing afar off, would not so much as lift up his eyes to heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled, and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Then Paul standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that ye are greatly addicted to the worship of invisible powers. For as I passed along and beheld the objects of your worship, I found an altar, on which was inscribed, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD: him therefore whom ye worship without knowing him, I proclaim unto you.
Jesus said to him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength.
How readest thou? And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
And Jesus sitting over-against the treasury, beheld how the people cast mony into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. And a poor widow coming, cast in two mites, which make a farthing. And calling his disciples, he saith to them, Verily I say to you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all who have cast into the treasury.read more.
For they all did cast in of their abundance: but she of her penury did cast in all that she had, even her whole living.
I exhort you therefore, brethren, by the tender mercies of God, to present your bodies unto God, a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable, which is your reasonable service.
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for the Father seeketh such worshipers. God is a spirit, and they that worship him, must worship him in spirit and in truth.
beware of the concision, For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the spirit, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
Likewise that women adorn themselves in decent apparel, with modesty and sobriety, not with curled hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly raiment,
Therefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us hold fast the grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear.
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false Worship » Other objects of worship » Heavenly bodies
false Worship » Idolatry » Forbidden
false Worship » False gods and Goddesses » General references to
Ye know that when ye were heathens, ye were carried away after dumb idols, as ye were led.
false Worship » Other objects of worship » Devils worshipped
And the rest of the men, who were not killed by these plagues, yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and wood, which can neither hear, nor see, nor walk:
false Worship » Idols characterized, as » Vanity of
Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think the Godhead is like gold or silver, or stone, graven by art and contrivance of man.
false Worship » Brazen serpent places devoted to idolatry » Idolatrous temples
So that there is danger, not only that this our craft should be set at nought, but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her majesty destroyed, whom all Asia, and the world worshipeth.
false Worship » Other objects of worship » The golden calves of jeroboam, set up in dan and bethel
false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Ashtaroth » Ashtaroth or ashtoreth, a Goddess of the phoenicians
false Worship » Other objects of worship » Teraphim, images, household gods
false Worship » Brazen serpent places devoted to idolatry » Idolatrous altars
false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Baal-peor » Baal-peor, a God of the moabites
false Worship » Other objects of worship » The golden calf made by aaron
And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.
false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Molech, moloch, or milcom, a God of the ammonites
Yea, ye took up the shrine of Molock, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
false Worship » Idolatry » Prophecies concerning the overthrow of
false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Chemosh » Chemosh, a God of the moabites
false Worship » Idols characterized, as » Degrading
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image in the likeness of corruptible man, and of birds, and of four-footed creatures and reptiles.
Ye know that when ye were heathens, ye were carried away after dumb idols, as ye were led.
false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Dagon » Dagon, a God of the philistines
false Worship » Idols characterized, as » Helpless
And with these sayings scarce restrained they the multitude from sacrificing to them.
false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Diana » Diana, a Goddess of the ephesians
For a man named Demetrius, a silver smith, who made silver shrines of Diana, procured no small gain to the artificers:
But the register, having pacified the people, said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there who knoweth not, that the city of the Ephesians is a worshiper of the great Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?
And hearing this, they were filled with rage, and cried out, saying, The great Diana of the Ephesians.
false Worship » Other objects of worship » Men deified and worshipped
And he leaped and walked. But the multitude, seeing what Paul had done, lifted up their voice, saying, in the Lycaonian language, The gods are come down to us, in the likeness of men.
However they expected, that he would have swollen, or suddenly fallen down dead: but after having waited a considerable time, seeing no mischief befall him, they changed their minds and said, that he was a god.
false Worship » Idols characterized, as » Insentiate
false Worship » Idols characterized, as » Perishable
false Worship » Idols characterized, as » Unworthy of worship of intelligent beings
Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think the Godhead is like gold or silver, or stone, graven by art and contrivance of man.
