Thematic Bible: Religion characteristics of
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FALSE » Religion characteristics of » False profession
They profess to know God; but in works deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
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Not every one who saith to me, Lord, Lord! shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven.
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And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
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My dear children, let us not love in word and in tongue, but in deed and in truth;
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Then he answering said to them, Well did Isaiah prophesy concerning you hypocrites, as it is written, "This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
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FALSE » Religion characteristics of » Legalism
I am indeed a Jewish man, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but educated in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed accurately in the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, as ye all are this day:
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Him Paul resolved to take out with him; and took and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places: for they all knew his father, that he was a Greek.
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And they, when they heard it, glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many myriads there are of Jews who have believed; and they are all zealots for the law:
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Then said some of the Pharisees unto them, Why do ye that which is not lawful on the sabbath-day?
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and signalized myself in Judaism above many of those of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly a zealot for the traditions of my fathers.
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But up rose some of the pharisaical sect, who professed the faith, insisting, That it was necessary to circumcise them, and to enjoin them to observe the law of Moses.
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And the Pharisees said to him, See, why are they doing on the sabbath, what is not lawful?
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Then the ruler of the synagogue, indignant, that on the sabbath Jesus had performed the cure, addressing himself to the multitude, said, There are six days in which work is to be done: on these therefore come and be cured, and not on the sabbath-day.
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The Jews therefore said to him that was cured, It is the sabbath: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.
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For I am a witness for them, that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
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FALSE » Religion characteristics of » Ceremonialism
But now after having known God, or rather being known of God, how turn ye back again to those weak and beggarly elements, to which again a second time ye desire to be in bondage?
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And coming from the market, unless they have washed, they never eat. And there are many other things which they have by tradition received to observe, as the washings of cups, and pots, and vessels of brass, and couches.
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Why then now tempt ye God, by imposing a yoke on the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
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STAND fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made you free, and be not again held under a yoke of bondage.
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If then ye have been dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye dogmatically taught,
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as they consist only of meats, and drinks, and different ablutions, and corporal services, until the appointed time of perfect reformation.
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