13 Bible Verses about Rewards Of Ritual

For what to me the multitude of your sacrifices? Jehovah will say: I was filled with the burnt-offerings of rams and the fat of fatlings; and I delighted not in the blood of bullocks, and of he lambs and of he goats.

And praying, talk ye not vainly as the nations; for they think that by their profaneness of speech they shall be listened to.

With various and strange teachings be not carried about. For good the heart be rendered firm by grace; not by food, in which they having walked about were not profited.

Ye were neglected from Christ, whoever are justified in the law; ye have fallen from grace.

But they worship me in vain, teaching doctrines the commands of men.

Let none condemn you being willing in humility and religious worship of angels, going into what he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh, And not having power over the Head, from whom all the body, by all the senses of touch and connections furnished and joined together, increases with the increase of God. If therefore ye died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as living in the world, do ye dogmatize,read more.
(Touch not; neither taste; neither shouldest thou handle; Which are all for corruption in the using;) according to the commands and doctrines of men?

But if ye also suffer for justice, happy are ye: be not afraid of their fear, neither be troubled;

Ye shall not say, A conspiracy to all whom this people shall say a conspiracy; and ye shall not fear their fear, and ye shall not be afraid. Jehovah of armies, him shall ye consecrate; and he your fear, and he your terror.

Be thou exalted, O Jehovah, in thy strength: we will sing and play thy powers upon the harp.

For John came to you in the way of justice, and ye believed him not: and the publicans and harlots believed him; and ye, seeing, repented not afterwards, to believe him.

For thou tookest up coals of fire upon his head, and Jehovah will recompense to thee.

And it was as the people so the priest: and I reviewed upon them their way; and their doings I will turn back to them.

Her heads will judge for a gift, and her priests will teach for hire, and her prophets will divine for silver: and they will lean upon Jehovah, saying, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? he will not bring evil upon us.