Thematic Bible: Formalism

Keep thy foot, when thou goest unto the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than dullards to offer sacrifice, - for they make no acknowledgment of doing wrong. Verse Concepts

Then said Samuel - Doth that which is pleasing unto Yahweh consist in ascending-offerings and sacrifices, So much as in hearkening unto the voice of Yahweh? Lo! to hearken, is, better, than, sacrifice. And, to give heed, than, the fat of rams; Verse Concepts

For, lovingkindness, I desired, and not sacrifice, - and the knowledge of God, more than ascending-offerings. Verse Concepts

Only as to eatings, and drinkings, and diversified immersions, - righteous-appointments of the flesh, which, until a season of rectifying, are in force. Verse Concepts

The circumcision, is, nothing, and, the uncircumcision, is, nothing, - but keeping the commandments of God. Verse Concepts

For thou wilt not desire sacrifice - that I should give it, Ascending-offering, will not please: The sacrifices of God, are a spirit that is broken, - A heart - broken and crushed, O God, thou wilt not despise.

For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in Holy Spirit; Verse Concepts

Food, indeed, will not commend us unto God, - neither, if we eat not, do we lack, nor, if we eat, do we abound. Verse Concepts

having a form of godliness, but, the power thereof, denying! and, from these, turn away; Verse Concepts

Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because ye tithe the mint and the anise and the cummin, - and have dismissed the weightier matters of the law - the justice, the mercy, and the faith; whereas, these, it was binding, to do, and, those, not to, dismiss. Verse Concepts

If ye have died, together with Christ, from the first principles of the world, why, as though alive in the world, are ye submitting to decrees, - Verse Concepts

Wherefore My Lord hath said, - Because this people, hath drawn near with their mouth, And with their lips, have honoured me, But their heart, have they moved far from me, And so their reverence of me hath become A commandment of men in which they have been schooled, Verse Concepts

Yet, me - day by day, do they seek, And in the knowledge of my ways, they delight, - Like a nation that had done righteousness, And the justice of their God, had not forsaken They ask of me the just regulations, In approaching God, they delight. Verse Concepts

This people, with the lips, do, honour, me, while, their heart, far off, holdeth from me; Verse Concepts

Ye shall not again bring in an empty, present, Incense, an abomination, is that unto me! New moon, and sabbath calling an assembly - I cannot endure, iniquity and sacred festival! Verse Concepts

Days, ye do narrowly observer, and months, and seasons, and years: - I am afraid of you - lest by any means, in vain, I should have toiled for you!