12 Bible Verses about Lack Of Meaning
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And the Lord said, because this people come near to me with their mouths, and give honour to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is false, a rule given them by the teaching of men;
And he said, Well did Isaiah say of you, you false ones: These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
They have been planted by you, they have taken root; they go on and give fruit: you are near in their mouths but far from their thoughts.
And they come to you as my people come, and are seated before you as my people, hearing your words but doing them not: for deceit is in their mouth and their heart goes after profit for themselves.
His tongue is an arrow causing death; the words of his mouth are deceit: he says words of peace to his neighbour, but in his heart he is waiting secretly for him.
And in your prayer do not make use of the same words again and again, as the Gentiles do: for they have the idea that God will give attention to them because of the number of their words.
And they have not made prayer to me in their hearts, but they make loud cries on their beds; they are cutting themselves for food and wine, they are turned against me.
But these words seemed foolish to them, and they had no belief in them.
O Timothy, take good care of that which is given to you, turning away from the wrong and foolish talk and arguments of that knowledge which is falsely so named;
But take no part in wrong and foolish talk, for those who do so will go farther into evil,
For as the thoughts of his heart are, so is he: Take food and drink, he says to you; but his heart is not with you.
