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FALSE » Religion characteristics of » False profession
And they come to you as the people come, 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 unjust gain. And lo, you are to them as a singer of love songs with a beautiful voice, and able to play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they do not do them.
They profess that they know God, but in their works they deny Him, being abominable and disobedient and reprobate to every good work.
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Not everyone who says to Me, Lord! Lord! shall enter the kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in Heaven.
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Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a broken piece of pottery with silver waste.
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And why do you call Me Lord, Lord, and do not do what I say?
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My children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
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And they remembered that God was their rock, and the Most High God was their redeemer. But they flattered Him with their mouths, and they lied to Him with their tongues.
Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah; who swear by the name of Jehovah and make mention of the God of Israel (but not in truth nor in righteousness).
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But He answered and said to them, Well has Isaiah prophesied 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 truly a man, a Jew born in Tarsus in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the exactness of the Law of the fathers, being a zealous one of God, as you all are today.
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Paul wanted him to go with him, and taking him he 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 hearing, they glorified the Lord, and said to 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 to them, Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days?
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And I progressed in Judaism beyond many contemporaries in my race, being much more a zealot of the traditions of my fathers.
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But some of those from the sect of the Pharisees, having believed, rose up, saying, It was necessary to circumcise them and to command them to keep the Law of Moses.
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And the Pharisees said to Him, Behold, why do they do that which is not lawful on the sabbath day?
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And answering, the synagogue ruler, being angry because Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, said to the crowd, There are six days in which it is right to work. Therefore in them come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.
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Therefore the Jews said to him who had been healed, It is the sabbath. It is not lawful for you to take up the bed.
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For I bear record to them that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
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FALSE » Religion characteristics of » Ceremonialism
But now, knowing God, but rather are known by God, how do you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements to which you again desire to slave anew?
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And coming from the market, they do not eat without immersing, and there are many other things which they have received to hold, the dippings of cups and pots, and of copper vessels, and of tables.
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Now therefore why do you tempt God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples, a yoke 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 do not again be held with the yoke of bondage.
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If then you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, are you subject to its ordinances:
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which stood only in meats and drinks, and different kinds of washings and fleshly ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
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