16 Bible Verses about False Worship
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saying, This people approach me with their mouth, and honour me with their lips, but their heart is far from me: but in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the injunctions of men.
But He answered them, Well did Esaias prophesy concerning you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me: and in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the injunctions of men.
which things indeed have a pretence to wisdom in voluntary worship, and humiliation, and bodily penance, as having no regard to the satisfying of the flesh.
And when thou prayest, be not like the hypocrites; for they love to pray in public assemblies, and in the corners of the streets, that they may be taken notice of by men. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward.
Two men went up to the temple to pray; the one a pharisee and the other a publican. The pharisee standing by himself prayed thus, O God, I thank thee that I am not as other men are, rapacious, unjust, adulterous, or even as this publican. I fast twice a week, and I give tithes of all that I possess.read more.
But the publican standing at a distance did not presume so much as to lift up his eyes to heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, O God, be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for whoever exalteth himself shall be abased, but he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Then Paul stood up in the midst of the Areopagus and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that you are indeed over-much religious: for as I was passing along, and looking at what ye worshipped, I found an altar on which there was inscribed, "To the unknown God." Whom therefore ye worship unknown, Him do I declare unto you.
And Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind: this is the first and great command.
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:" this is the first or chief commandment,
And he answered, 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 neighbor as thyself.
And as Jesus was sitting over against the treasury, He saw how the people threw money into the treasury, and many of the rich put in much; and there came a poor widow and put in two mites, that is, a farthing. And He called his disciples to Him, and saith unto them, Verily I tell you, that this poor widow has given more than all those who have cast into the treasury.read more.
For they all have contributed out of their abundance: but she out of her penury hath given all that she had, even her whole living.
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, and well-pleasing to God, as your rational service.
But the time is coming, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth: for the Father requireth such worshippers of Him. God is a spirit, and they that worship Him, must worship in spirit and truth.
For we are of the true circumcision, who worship God in spirit, rejoicing in Christ Jesus, and having no confidence in the flesh.
likewise that women dress themselves in decent apparel with modesty and prudence, not in braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly garments;
Wherefore since we receive a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and holy 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 ye were Gentiles, drawn aside after dumb idols, just as ye were led: wherefore,
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, so as not to worship demons, and idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk:
false Worship » Idols characterized, as » Vanity of
Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to imagine that the Deity is like to gold, or silver, or stone, carved by the art and device of man.
false Worship » Brazen serpent places devoted to idolatry » Idolatrous temples
So that we are not only in danger of this, that the business we follow will come to nothing; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana will be despised; and her magnificence destroyed, whom all Asia and the whole world worshippeth.
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 offered sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Molech, moloch, or milcom, a God of the ammonites
yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them by: 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
Pretending to be wise they Became fools: and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for an image like to corruptible man, and birds, and beasts, and reptiles.
Ye know that ye were Gentiles, drawn aside after dumb idols, just as ye were led: wherefore,
As to the eating therefore of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Dagon » Dagon, a God of the philistines
false Worship » Idols characterized, as » Helpless
And saying these things, they with difficulty restrained the people from sacrificing to them.
false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Diana » Diana, a Goddess of the ephesians
For one Demetrius, a silver-smith, who made silver models of Diana's temple, brought no small gain to the artificers: whom he got together,
And when the Secretary had appeased the multitude, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there who doth not know that the city of the Ephesians is devoted to the service of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?
Hearing this and being filled with rage, they cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
false Worship » Other objects of worship » Men deified and worshipped
And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man:
And the people, seeing what Paul had done, lifted up their voice, saying in the Lycaonian tongue, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.
They however were expecting that he would swell, or suddenly fall down dead: but when they had waited a good while, and saw no hurt come to him, they changed their opinion 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 imagine that the Deity is like to gold, or silver, or stone, carved by the art and device of man.
