Thematic Bible: Religion characteristics of
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FALSE » Religion characteristics of » False profession
They profess to know God, but by their actions they disown Him; they are detestable, disobedient, and useless for anything good.
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Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will get into the kingdom of heaven, but only those who practice doing the will of my Father in heaven.
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"So why do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' but do not practice what I tell you?
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Dear children, let us stop loving with words or lips alone, but let us love with actions and in truth.
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But He answered them, "Isaiah beautifully prophesied about you hypocrites; as the Scripture says: "'This people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far, far away from me;
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FALSE » Religion characteristics of » Legalism
"I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up here in this city, and carefully educated under the teaching of Gamaliel in the law of our forefathers. I was zealous for God, as all of you are today.
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Paul wanted this man to join him in his journey; so on account of the Jews in that district he took him and had him circumcised, for everybody knew that his father was a Greek.
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They gave the glory to God, when they heard it, and said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousand believers there are among the Jews, all of them zealous champions of the law.
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And some of the Pharisees said, "Why are you doing what is against the law to do on the Sabbath?"
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and how I outstripped many of my own age among my people in my devotion to the Jewish religion, because I surpassed all others in my zeal for the traditions handed down by my forefathers.
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But some members of the Pharisaic party, who had become believers, arose and said that such converts must be circumcised and told to keep the law of Moses.
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So the Pharisees were saying to Him, "Just look! Why are they doing on the Sabbath what it is against the law to do?"
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But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had cured her on the Sabbath, answered the crowd, "There are six days on which people must work; so come on these and be cured, but not on the Sabbath."
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So the Jews began to say to the man who had been cured, "It is the Sabbath, and it is against the law for you to carry your pallet."
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For I can testify that they are zealous for God, but they are not intelligently so.
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FALSE » Religion characteristics of » Ceremonialism
but now, since you have come to know God, or rather have come to be known by Him, how can you turn back to your own crude notions, so weak and worthless, and wish to become slaves to them again?
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and will never eat until they have carefully washed their hands, and they never eat anything brought from the market until they wash it; and they have many other religious practices which they got from their forefathers, as the washing of cups, pitchers, and pans.
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Then why do you now try to test God by putting on these disciples' necks a yoke which neither our forefathers nor we could bear?
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This is the freedom with which Christ has made us free. So keep on standing in it, and stop letting your necks be fastened in the yoke of slavery again.
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If once through fellowship with Christ you died and were separated from the world's crude notions, why do you live as though you belonged to the world? Why submit to rules such as,
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since they deal only with food and drink and various washings, that is, with mere material regulations which are in force only until the time of setting things straight.
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