Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:

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Forasmuch

Isaiah 10:6
I send it against a godless nation
And commission it against the people of My fury
To capture booty and to seize plunder,
And to trample them down like mud in the streets.
Isaiah 48:1
Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are named Israel
And who came forth from the loins of Judah,
Who swear by the name of the Lord
And invoke the God of Israel,
But not in truth nor in righteousness.
Isaiah 58:2
“Yet they seek Me day by day and delight to know My ways,
As a nation that has done righteousness
And has not forsaken the ordinance of their God.
They ask Me for just decisions,
They delight in the nearness of God.
Psalm 17:1
A Prayer of David.
Hear a just cause, O Lord, give heed to my cry;
Give ear to my prayer, which is not from deceitful lips.
Jeremiah 3:10
Yet in spite of all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but rather in deception,” declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 5:2
“And although they say, ‘As the Lord lives,’
Surely they swear falsely.”
Jeremiah 12:2
You have planted them, they have also taken root;
They grow, they have even produced fruit.
You are near to their lips
But far from their mind.
Jeremiah 42:2
and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Please let our petition come before you, and pray for us to the Lord your God, that is for all this remnant; because we are left but a few out of many, as your own eyes now see us,
Ezekiel 33:31
They come to you as people come, and sit before you as My people and hear your words, but they do not do them, for they do the lustful desires expressed by their mouth, and their heart goes after their gain.
Matthew 15:7
You hypocrites, rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you:

Their fear

Proverbs 30:6
Do not add to His words
Or He will reprove you, and you will be proved a liar.
Matthew 15:2
“Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.”
Mark 7:2
and had seen that some of His disciples were eating their bread with impure hands, that is, unwashed.
Colossians 2:22
(which all refer to things destined to perish with use)—in accordance with the commandments and teachings of men?

General references

James 1:8
being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

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