Thematic Bible: Religion characteristics of
Thematic Bible
FALSE » Religion characteristics of » False profession
They profess to know God, but they deny him by their deeds; they are detestable and disobedient, unfit for any good deed.
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"Not every one who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
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"Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say?
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Little children, let us not love in word or tongue but in deed and in truth.
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And he said to them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites; as it is written: 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
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FALSE » Religion characteristics of » Legalism
"I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated under Gamaliel, strictly according to the law of our fathers, being zealous for God just as you all are today.
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Paul wanted this man to accompany him; and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.
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And when they heard it, they glorified God. And they said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed; they are all zealous for the law,
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But some of the Pharisees said, "Why are you doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath?"
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and I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, so extremely zealous was I for the traditions of my fathers.
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But some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stood up, and said, "It is necessary to circumcise them, and to charge them to keep the Law of Moses."
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And the Pharisees said to him, "Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?"
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But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the people, "There are six days on which work ought to be done; come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day."
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So the Jews said to the man who was cured, "It is the Sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed."
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For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but it is not according to knowledge.
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FALSE » Religion characteristics of » Ceremonialism
But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless elemental things? Do you desire to be enslaved all over again?
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When they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash themselves. And there are many other traditions which they observe, the washing of cups and pitchers and copper vessels.)
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Now therefore why do you test God by putting upon the neck of the disciples a yoke which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?
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It was for freedom that Christ has set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.
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If with Christ you died to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you still belonged to it, do you submit to regulations such as,
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since they relate only to food and drink and various washings regulations for the flesh imposed until the time of reformation.
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