Thematic Bible: The insufficiency of
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Formalism » The insufficiency of
Put your feet down with care when you go to the house of God, for it is better to give ear than to make the burned offerings of the foolish, whose knowledge is only of doing evil.
And Samuel said, Has the Lord as much delight in offerings and burned offerings as in the doing of his orders? Truly, to do his pleasure is better than to make offerings, and to give ear to him than the fat of sheep.
Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings.
Because they are only rules of the flesh, of meats and drinks and washings, which have their place till the time comes when things will be put right.
Circumcision is nothing, and its opposite is nothing, but only doing the orders of God is of value.
You have no desire for an offering or I would give it; you have no delight in burned offerings. The offerings of God are a broken spirit; a broken and sorrowing heart, O God, you will not put from you.
For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
But God's approval of us is not based on the food we take: if we do not take it we are no worse for it; and if we take it we are no better.
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Put your feet down with care when you go to the house of God, for it is better to give ear than to make the burned offerings of the foolish, whose knowledge is only of doing evil.
And Samuel said, Has the Lord as much delight in offerings and burned offerings as in the doing of his orders? Truly, to do his pleasure is better than to make offerings, and to give ear to him than the fat of sheep.
Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings.
Because they are only rules of the flesh, of meats and drinks and washings, which have their place till the time comes when things will be put right.
Circumcision is nothing, and its opposite is nothing, but only doing the orders of God is of value.
You have no desire for an offering or I would give it; you have no delight in burned offerings. The offerings of God are a broken spirit; a broken and sorrowing heart, O God, you will not put from you.
For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
But God's approval of us is not based on the food we take: if we do not take it we are no worse for it; and if we take it we are no better.
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