Thematic Bible: Religion characteristics of
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FALSE » Religion characteristics of » False profession
They profess to know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and void of judgment as to every good work.
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Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that doth 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 beloved children, let us love not in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
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He answering said to them, Well hath Isaiah prophesied of 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
and he saith) I am verily a Jew, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and accurately instructed in the law of our fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.
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Him Paul would have to go forth with him; and he 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 having heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said to him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of believing Jews there are, and they are all zealous for the law.
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And certain of the Pharisees said to them, Why do ye what it is not lawful to do on the sabbath day?
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And I profited in the Jewish religion above many of my years among my countrymen, being more abundantly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
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But there rose up, said they, certain of the sect of the Pharisees who believed, saying, That we ought to circumcise them, and command them to keep the law of Moses.
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And the Pharisees said to him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath that which is not lawful?
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And the ruler of the synagogue, being much displeased, because Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, answered and said, There are six days, in which man ought to work: on these therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath.
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Then said the Jews to him that was healed, It is the sabbath; it is not lawful for thee to take up the bed.
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For I bear them record, that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
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FALSE » Religion characteristics of » Ceremonialism
But now having known God, or rather being known of God, how turn ye back to the weak and beggarly elements, to which ye desire to be in bondage again?
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And coming from the market, unless they wash, they eat not: and many other things there are which they have received to hold, the washings of cups and pots and brasen vessels and couches.
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Now therefore why endeavour ye to put 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 wherewith Christ hath made you free, and be not intangled again with the yoke of bondage.
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Therefore if ye are dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, receive ye ordinances,
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Only with meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed till the time of reformation.
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