6 Bible Verses about True Religion

and to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the soul and with all the strength and to love his neighbour as himself is more than all the burnt offerings and sacrifices.

For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

The pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation and to keep thyself unspotted from this world.

He has declared unto thee, O man, what is good and what the LORD requires of thee: only to do right judgment, and to love mercy, and to humble thyself to walk with thy God.

The conclusion of the entire sermon is heard: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole happiness of man.

For he was a good man and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and many people were added unto the Lord.

a devout man and one that feared God with all his house, who gave many alms to the people and prayed to God always.

Now therefore fear the LORD and serve him in perfection and in truth and put away from among you the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the river and in Egypt, and serve ye the LORD.

that ye may approve the best, that ye may be sincere and without offense until the day of Christ,

therefore let us celebrate the feast, not in the old leaven, neither in the leaven of malice and wickedness, but in the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with carnal wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world and more abundantly towards you.

For we are not as many, false merchandisers of the word of God, but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.

and to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the soul and with all the strength and to love his neighbour as himself is more than all the burnt offerings and sacrifices.

For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

The pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation and to keep thyself unspotted from this world.

He has declared unto thee, O man, what is good and what the LORD requires of thee: only to do right judgment, and to love mercy, and to humble thyself to walk with thy God.

The conclusion of the entire sermon is heard: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole happiness of man.

And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah and wrought that which was good and right and true before the LORD his God.

And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou would bless me indeed and enlarge my border and that thy hand might be with me and that thou would deliver me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.

when I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois and thy mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that in thee also.

And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.

These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he entered into his house; and with the windows open toward Jerusalem in his dining chamber, he knelt three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God as he was used to doing before.

And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good witness of all the Jews who dwelt there,

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and said of him, Behold a true Israelite, in whom is no guile!

And he that sent me is with me: the Father has not left me alone, for I always do those things that please him.

And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon, and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

and she was a widow eighty-four years, who departed not from the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God and departed from evil.