Thematic Bible: Formalism
Thematic Bible
Formalism » The insufficiency of
since they have to do only with food and drink and various washings??aterial regulations in force only until the time for the new order.
Verse Concepts
Being circumcised or being uncircumcised does not make any difference; all that matters is keeping God's commands.
Verse Concepts
The Kingdom of God is not a matter of what we eat or drink, but of uprightness, peace, and happiness through the possession of the holy Spirit.
Verse Concepts
But food is not going to affect our standing with God. We are none the worse if we do not eat it, and none the better if we do.
Verse Concepts
Formalism » Warnings against
keeping up the forms of religion, but resisting its influence. Avoid such people.
Verse Concepts
"Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you pay tithes on mint, dill, and cummin, and you have let the weightier matters of the Law go??ustice, mercy, and integrity. But you should have observed these, without overlooking the others.
Verse Concepts
If you have died with Christ to material ways of looking at things, why do you act as though you still belonged to the world, and submit to rules like
Verse Concepts
" 'This people honor me with their lips, Yet their hearts are far away from me.
Verse Concepts
You are observing days, months, seasons, and years! I begin to be afraid that perhaps the labor I spent on you was wasted.
Religion » Formalism » The insufficiency of
since they have to do only with food and drink and various washings??aterial regulations in force only until the time for the new order.
Verse Concepts
Being circumcised or being uncircumcised does not make any difference; all that matters is keeping God's commands.
Verse Concepts
The Kingdom of God is not a matter of what we eat or drink, but of uprightness, peace, and happiness through the possession of the holy Spirit.
Verse Concepts
But food is not going to affect our standing with God. We are none the worse if we do not eat it, and none the better if we do.
Verse Concepts
Religion » Formalism » Warnings against
keeping up the forms of religion, but resisting its influence. Avoid such people.
Verse Concepts
"Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you pay tithes on mint, dill, and cummin, and you have let the weightier matters of the Law go??ustice, mercy, and integrity. But you should have observed these, without overlooking the others.
Verse Concepts
If you have died with Christ to material ways of looking at things, why do you act as though you still belonged to the world, and submit to rules like
Verse Concepts
" 'This people honor me with their lips, Yet their hearts are far away from me.
Verse Concepts
You are observing days, months, seasons, and years! I begin to be afraid that perhaps the labor I spent on you was wasted.
Related Topics
- Burnt offering
- Character Of Wicked
- Eating Meat
- Formality
- Hypocrisy
- Hypocrites, Description Of
- Lack Of Meaning
- Law, Letter And Spirit Of
- Legalism
- Lips
- Mere Talk
- Mind, Of Christ
- Nominal Religion
- Obedience
- Orthodoxy, In Ot
- Peace And Comfort
- Prayer, Advice For Effective
- Religion
- Right Sacrifices
- Ritual
- Sacrifice
- Sacrifices
- Sin, God's Remedy For
- Worship, Acceptable Attitudes
- Worship, Hindrances To
- Ethics, incentives towards
- Piety