Thematic Bible: Religion characteristics of
Thematic Bible
FALSE » Religion characteristics of » False profession
And they come in unto thee as the coming in of a people, And they sit before thee -- My people, And have heard thy words, and they do them not, For doting loves with their mouth they are making, After their dishonest gain their heart is going. And lo, thou art to them as a singer of doting loves, A pleasant voice, and playing well on an instrument, And they have heard thy words, and they are not doing them.
God they profess to know, and in the works they deny Him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved.
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'Not every one who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens.
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Silver of dross spread over potsherd, Are burning lips and an evil heart.
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'And why do ye call me, Lord, Lord, and do not what I say?
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My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!
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And they remember that God is their rock, And God Most High their redeemer. And -- they deceive Him with their mouth, And with their tongue do lie to Him,
Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, Who are called by the name of Israel, And from the waters of Judah came out, Who are swearing by the name of Jehovah, And of the God of Israel make mention, Not in truth nor in righteousness.
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and he answering said to them -- 'Well did Isaiah prophesy concerning you, hypocrites, as it hath been written, This people with the lips doth honour Me, and their heart is far from Me;
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FALSE » Religion characteristics of » Legalism
'I, indeed, am a man, a Jew, having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, and brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been taught according to the exactitude of a law of the fathers, being zealous of God, as all ye are to-day.
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this one did Paul wish to go forth with him, and having taken him, he circumcised him, because of the Jews who are in those places, for they all knew his father -- that he was a Greek.
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and they having heard, were glorifying the Lord. They said also to him, 'Thou seest, brother, how many myriads there are of Jews who have believed, and all are zealous of the law,
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and certain of the Pharisees said to them, 'Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbaths?'
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and I was advancing in Judaism above many equals in age in mine own race, being more abundantly zealous of my fathers' deliverances,
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and there rose up certain of those of the sect of the Pharisees who believed, saying -- 'It behoveth to circumcise them, to command them also to keep the law of Moses.'
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and the Pharisees said to him, 'Lo, why do they on the sabbaths that which is not lawful?'
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And the chief of the synagogue answering -- much displeased that on the sabbath Jesus healed -- said to the multitude, 'Six days there are in which it behoveth us to be working; in these, then, coming, be healed, and not on the sabbath-day.'
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the Jews then said to him that hath been healed, 'It is a sabbath; it is not lawful to thee to take up the couch.'
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for I bear them testimony that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge,
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FALSE » Religion characteristics of » Ceremonialism
and now, having known God -- and rather being known by God -- how turn ye again unto the weak and poor elements to which anew ye desire to be in servitude?
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and, coming from the market-place, if they do not baptize themselves, they do not eat; and many other things there are that they received to hold, baptisms of cups, and pots, and brazen vessels, and couches.
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now, therefore, why do ye tempt 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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In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free -- stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;
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If, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances?
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only in victuals, and drinks, and different baptisms, and fleshly ordinances -- till the time of reformation imposed upon them.
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