Thematic Bible: Religion characteristics of
Thematic Bible
FALSE » Religion characteristics of » False profession
They profess to know God, but they disown him by what they do; they are detestable, disobedient men, worthless for any good purpose.
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It is not everyone who says to me 'Lord! Lord!' who will get into the Kingdom of Heaven, but only those who do the will of my Father in heaven.
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Why do you call me: 'Lord! Lord!' and not do what I tell you?
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Dear children, let us love not with words or lips only but in reality and truth.
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But he said to them, "It was about you hypocrites that Isaiah prophesied so finely, in the words, " 'This people honor me with their lips, Yet their hearts are far away from me.
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FALSE » Religion characteristics of » Legalism
"I am a Jew, and I was born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but was brought up here in this city, and thoroughly educated under the teaching of Gamaliel in the Law of our forefathers. I was zealous for God, just as all of you are today.
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Paul wished to take this man on with him, and so on account of the Jews in that district he had him circumcised, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.
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They praised God when they heard it, and they said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousand believers there are among the Jews, all of them zealous upholders of the Law.
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And some of the Pharisees said, "Why do you do what it is against the Law to do on the Sabbath?"
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and how I surpassed many of my own age among my people in my devotion to Judaism, I was so fanatically devoted to what my forefathers had handed down.
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But some members of the Pharisees' party who had become believers got up and said that such converts ought to be circumcised and told to obey the Law of Moses.
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And the Pharisees said to him, "Look! Why are they doing what it is against the law to do on the Sabbath?"
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But the leader of the synagogue, in his vexation because Jesus had cured her on the Sabbath, spoke out and said to the crowd, "There are six days on which it is right to work. Come on them and be cured, but not on the Sabbath day."
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Now it was the Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "It is the Sabbath, and it is against the Law for you to carry your mat."
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I can testify to their sincere devotion to God, but it is not an intelligent devotion.
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FALSE » Religion characteristics of » Ceremonialism
but now that you know God, or rather have come to be known by him, how can you turn back to the old, crude notions, so poor and weak, and wish to become slaves to them again?
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and they will not eat anything from the market without first purifying it by sprinkling it, and they have a number of other observances which have come down to them, in the way of washing cups, pitchers, and basins.
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Then why do you now try to test God, by putting on the necks of these disciples a yoke that neither our forefathers nor we have been able to bear?
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This is the freedom with which Christ has freed us. So stand firm in it, and do not get under a yoke of slavery again.
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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
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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.
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