16 Bible Verses about False Worship
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This people honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. But in vain they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.
And responding He said to them, Beautifully did Isaiah prophesy concerning you hypocrites, as has been written, This people honor me with lips, but their heart is far from me. In vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Which indeed are having a word of wisdom in will worship, and humiliation, and austerity of the body; not in any value against the indulgence of the flesh.
And when you pray, be not like the hypocrites: because they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, in order that they may appear unto the people. Truly I say unto you, They exhaust their reward.
Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee standing was praying in these words, God, I thank thee because I am not like the rest of the men, extortioners, unjust, adulterous, or even as this publican: I fast twice per week; I give tithes of all things so many as I possess.read more.
But the publican, standing a great way off, did not wish even to lift up his eyes to the heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God, be merciful to me the sinner. I say unto you, He went down to his house justified rather than the other: because every one exalting himself shall be abased; and the one humbling himself shall be exalted.
You worship, you know not what: we worship that which we know: because salvation is of the Jews.
And Paul standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said, Athenian men, I perceive that in all things you are very religious. For going through, and seeing your devotions, I also found an altar on which it was superscribed, To THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore I now preach unto you Him whom you are ignorantly worshiping.
And He said to him; Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength. This is the first commandment.
And he responding said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with divine love from all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself.
And He sitting in front of the treasury, was seeing how the multitudes are casting their money into the treasury. And many rich people were casting in much. And one poor widow was casting in two mites, which is a farthing. And calling His disciples to Him, He says to them, Truly I say unto you, That this poor widow has cast in more than all those casting into the treasury.read more.
For all they of that which abounds unto them cast in; but she of her scarcity cast in all things so many as she had, all her living.
I exhort you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, your reasonable service:
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such worshiping Him. God is a Spirit, and it behooveth those who worship Him to worship in spirit and in truth.
For we are the circumcision, who serve the Spirit of God, and boast in Christ Jesus, also having no confidence in the flesh:
likewise that the women adorn themselves in comely apparel, with modesty and prudence; not with braided hair, and gold or pearls or costly garments;
Therefore receiving an unshaken kingdom, let us have grace, through which we may worship God acceptably with reverence and fear:
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- Worship (503 instances)
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false Worship » Other objects of worship » Heavenly bodies
false Worship » Idolatry » Forbidden
false Worship » False gods and Goddesses » General references to
false Worship » Other objects of worship » Devils worshipped
And the rest of the men who were not slain by these plagues did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and wood; which are neither able to see, nor to hear, nor to walk:
false Worship » Idols characterized, as » Vanity of
Then being the offspring of God, we ought not to think that divinity is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, the invention of art and the device of man.
false Worship » Brazen serpent places devoted to idolatry » Idolatrous temples
And not only is this interest in danger to us to come into disrepute; but even the temple of the great goddess Diana to be considered for nought, and they are about even to despise the majesty of her, whom all Asia and the world worships.
false Worship » Other objects of worship » The golden calves of jeroboam, set up in dan and bethel
false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Ashtaroth » Ashtaroth or ashtoreth, a Goddess of the phoenicians
false Worship » Other objects of worship » Teraphim, images, household gods
false Worship » Brazen serpent places devoted to idolatry » Idolatrous altars
false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Baal-peor » Baal-peor, a God of the moabites
false Worship » Other objects of worship » The golden calf made by aaron
And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Molech, moloch, or milcom, a God of the ammonites
And ye took up the shrine of Moloch, and the star of the god Remphan, images which you made to worship them; and I will transport you beyond Babylon.
false Worship » Idolatry » Prophecies concerning the overthrow of
false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Chemosh » Chemosh, a God of the moabites
false Worship » Idols characterized, as » Degrading
Saying that they were wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the invisible God into the similitude of the likeness of corruptible man, and of birds, and of quadrupeds, and of creeping things.
Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God except one.
false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Dagon » Dagon, a God of the philistines
false Worship » Idols characterized, as » Helpless
And speaking these things they scarcely restrained the multitude from offering sacrifices to them.
false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Diana » Diana, a Goddess of the ephesians
For a certain Demetrius by name, a silversmith, making silver shrines of Diana, was bringing no small gain to the mechanics,
And the city clerk having dismissed the multitudes, said, Ephesian men, for what one of men is there that does not know that the city of the Ephesians is a worshiper of the great goddess Diana, and of the statue having fallen down from Jupiter?
And hearing and being filled with rage, they continued to cry out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
false Worship » Other objects of worship » Men deified and worshipped
And the multitudes seeing what Paul did, lifted up their voice, in Lycaonic, saying, The gods having assumed the likeness of men have come down to us:
and they were looking for him to be about to swell up and suddenly fall down dead. But having looked a long time, and seeing nothing out of place come to him, changing their minds, they said that he was a god.
false Worship » Idols characterized, as » Insentiate
false Worship » Idols characterized, as » Perishable
false Worship » Idols characterized, as » Unworthy of worship of intelligent beings
Then being the offspring of God, we ought not to think that divinity is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, the invention of art and the device of man.