Thematic Bible: Religion characteristics of
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FALSE » Religion characteristics of » False profession
And they come to you as my people come, and are seated before you as my people, hearing your words but doing them not: for deceit is in their mouth and their heart goes after profit for themselves. And truly you are to them like a love song by one who has a very pleasing voice and is an expert player on an instrument: for they give ear to your words but do them not.
They say that they have knowledge of God, while by their acts they are turning their backs on him; they are hated by all, hard-hearted, and judged to be without value for any good work.
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Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will go into the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the pleasure of my Father in heaven.
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Smooth lips and an evil heart are like a vessel of earth plated with silver waste.
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Why do you say to me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
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My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith.
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In the memory that God was their Rock, and the Most High God their saviour. But their lips were false to him, and their tongues were untrue to him;
Give ear to this, O family of Jacob, you who are named by the name of Israel, and have come out of the body of Judah; who take oaths by the name of the Lord, and make use of the name of the God of Israel, but not truly and not in good faith.
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And he said, Well did Isaiah say of you, you false ones: These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
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FALSE » Religion characteristics of » Legalism
I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia by birth, but I had my education in this town at the feet of Gamaliel, being trained in the keeping of every detail of the law of our fathers; given up to the cause of God with all my heart, as you are today.
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Paul had a desire for him to go with him, and he gave him circumcision because of the Jews who were in those parts: for they all had knowledge that his father was a Greek.
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And hearing it, they gave praise to God; and they said to him, You see, brother, what thousands there are among the Jews, who have the faith; and they all have a great respect for the law:
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But some of the Pharisees said, Why do you do what it is not right to do on the Sabbath?
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And I went farther in the Jews' religion than a number of my generation among my countrymen, having a more burning interest in the beliefs handed down from my fathers.
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But some of the Pharisees, who were of the faith, got up and said, It is necessary for these to have circumcision and to keep the law of Moses.
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And the Pharisees said to him, Why are they doing what it is not right to do on the Sabbath?
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And the ruler of the Synagogue was angry because Jesus had made her well on the Sabbath, and he said to the people, There are six days in which men may do work: so come on those days to be made well, and not on the Sabbath.
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So the Jews said to the man who had been made well, It is the Sabbath; and it is against the law for you to take up your bed.
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For I give witness of them that they have a strong desire for God, but not with knowledge.
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FALSE » Religion characteristics of » Ceremonialism
But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again?
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And when they come from the market-place, they take no food till their hands are washed; and a number of other orders there are, which have been handed down to them to keep--washings of cups and pots and brass vessels.
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Why then are you testing God, by putting on the neck of the disciples a yoke so hard that not even our fathers or we were strong enough for it?
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Christ has truly made us free: then keep your free condition and let no man put a yoke on you again.
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If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders
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Because they are only rules of the flesh, of meats and drinks and washings, which have their place till the time comes when things will be put right.
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