Thematic Bible: Religion characteristics of
Thematic Bible
FALSE » Religion characteristics of » False profession
And they come unto you as the people comes, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their covetousness. And, lo, you are unto them as a very lovely song of one that has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear your words, but they do them not.
They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
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Not every one that says unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
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Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.
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And why call me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
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My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
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And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer. Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and have come forth out of the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.
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He answered and said unto them, Well has Isaiah prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
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FALSE » Religion characteristics of » Legalism
I am verily a man who is a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as you all are this day.
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Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took 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 the Lord, and said unto him, You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are who believe; and they are all zealous of the law:
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And certain of the Pharisees said unto them, Why do you that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days?
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And advanced in the Jews' religion above many of my equals in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
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But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees who believed, saying, It is needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.
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And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?
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And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.
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The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: 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 not according to knowledge.
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FALSE » Religion characteristics of » Ceremonialism
But now, after you have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn you again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage?
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And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, bronze vessels, and of tables.
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Now therefore why test God, to put a yoke upon 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 us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
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Therefore if you be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are you subject to ordinances,
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Which stood only in foods and drinks, and various washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
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