Thematic Bible: Religion characteristics of
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FALSE » Religion characteristics of » False profession
they make a profession of knowing God; but in fact they deny him, being execrably incredulous, and utter strangers to all virtue.
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Not every one that says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but only they who do the will of my Father who is in heaven.
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Why do you call me Lord, Lord, and do not observe what I say?
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my dear children, let not our love be only in the language of our lips, but in the real effects of the heart.
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Jesus answered, to such hypocrites as you may well be applied those words of the prophet Esaias, "this people honour me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
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FALSE » Religion characteristics of » Legalism
then he said, I am a Jew, a native of Tarsus in Cilicia, but had my education in this city: at the feet of Gamaliel I was instructed in the law, and in the exact decisions of our fathers, and was as religiously zealous as you are at this time.
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so he took him and had him circumcised, out of regard to the Jews of that country, who all knew his father was a Greek.
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upon hearing this, they gave glory to God: and thus address'd Paul, you see, brother, how many thousand believing Jews there are, all however zealous for the law.
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upon which some of the Pharisees said to them, why do you do what is not allowed to be done on the sabbath-day?
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and that I made a greater proficiency in Judaism than many my contemporaries of my own nation, being an extraordinary zealot for the traditions of my forefathers.
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but some of the sect of the Pharisees who had embraced the faith, started up, pretending that the Gentiles ought to be circumcised, and observe the law of Moses.
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upon which the Pharisees said to him, pray observe how they trespass on the sabbath-day.
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but the ruler of the synagogue being highly incensed at Jesus's healing on the sabbath-day, said to the people, there are six days for work, you should come therefore for cure on those days, and not on the sabbath.
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the Jews said to 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 guided by true knowledge.
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FALSE » Religion characteristics of » Ceremonialism
or rather that you are favoured by him, how can ye turn again to the weak and beggarly elements of the law, to which you desire again to be in bondage?
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nay, when they have been at any publick place, they never eat till they have washed. they observe besides several traditions, such as the washing of cups, pots, brass vessels, and beds.
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why therefore do you tempt God to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither we nor our forefathers were able to bear?
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Stand fast therefore, and be not hampered again with the yoke of bondage.
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If then you are dead with Christ, in respect of those shadows of the Jewish state; why do ye, as if you were still in that state, submit to those ordinances?
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only in matters relating to meats and drinks, and divers baptisms, meer external rites which were to subsist only till the time of reformation.
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