Thematic Bible: Formalism
Thematic Bible
Formalism » The insufficiency of
the whole system being concerned only with food and drink and various ablutions--external ceremonials imposed until the coming of the New Order.
Verse Concepts
Circumcision is nothing; the want of it is nothing; but to keep the commands of God is everything.
Verse Concepts
For the Kingdom of God does not consist of eating and drinking, but of righteousness and peace and gladness through the presence of the Holy Spirit.
Verse Concepts
What we eat, however, will not bring us nearer to God. We lose nothing by not eating this food, and we gain nothing by eating it.
Verse Concepts
Formalism » Warnings against
and while they retain the outward form of religion, they will not allow it to influence them. Turn your back on such men as these.
Verse Concepts
Alas for you, Teachers of the Law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You pay tithes on mint, fennel, and caraway seed, and have neglected the weightier matters of the Law--justice, mercy, and good faith. These last you ought to have put into practice, without neglecting the first.
Verse Concepts
Since, with Christ, you became dead to the puerile teaching of this world, why do you submit, as though your life were still that of the world,
Verse Concepts
'This is a people that honor me with their lips, While their hearts are far removed from me;
Verse Concepts
You are scrupulous in keeping Days and Months and Seasons and Years! You make me fear that the labor which I have spent on you may have been wasted.
Religion » Formalism » The insufficiency of
the whole system being concerned only with food and drink and various ablutions--external ceremonials imposed until the coming of the New Order.
Verse Concepts
Circumcision is nothing; the want of it is nothing; but to keep the commands of God is everything.
Verse Concepts
For the Kingdom of God does not consist of eating and drinking, but of righteousness and peace and gladness through the presence of the Holy Spirit.
Verse Concepts
What we eat, however, will not bring us nearer to God. We lose nothing by not eating this food, and we gain nothing by eating it.
Verse Concepts
Religion » Formalism » Warnings against
and while they retain the outward form of religion, they will not allow it to influence them. Turn your back on such men as these.
Verse Concepts
Alas for you, Teachers of the Law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You pay tithes on mint, fennel, and caraway seed, and have neglected the weightier matters of the Law--justice, mercy, and good faith. These last you ought to have put into practice, without neglecting the first.
Verse Concepts
Since, with Christ, you became dead to the puerile teaching of this world, why do you submit, as though your life were still that of the world,
Verse Concepts
'This is a people that honor me with their lips, While their hearts are far removed from me;
Verse Concepts
You are scrupulous in keeping Days and Months and Seasons and Years! You make me fear that the labor which I have spent on you may have been wasted.
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- Hypocrites, Description Of
- Lack Of Meaning
- Law, Letter And Spirit Of
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- 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