16 Bible Verses about False Worship
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" 'This people honor me with their lips, Yet their hearts are far away from me. But their worship of me is all in vain, For the lessons they teach are but human precepts.' "
But he said to them, "It was about you hypocrites that Isaiah prophesied so finely, in the words, " 'This people honor me with their lips, Yet their hearts are far away from me. But their worship of me is all in vain, For the lessons they teach are but human precepts.'
Such practices pass for wisdom, with their self-imposed devotions, their self-humiliation, and their ascetic discipline, but they carry with them no real distinction, they are really only a catering to the flesh.
"When you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, for they like to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the squares, to let people see them. I tell you, that is the only reward they will get!
"Two men went up to the Temple to pray; one was a Pharisee and the other a tax-collector. The Pharisee stood up and uttered this prayer to himself: 'O God, I thank you that I am not like other men, greedy, dishonest, or adulterous, like that tax-collector. I fast two days in the week; I pay tithes on everything I get.'read more.
But the tax-collector stood at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven, but struck his breast, and said, 'O God, have mercy on a sinner like me!' I tell you, it was he who went back to his house with God's approval, and not the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the man who humbles himself will be exalted."
You worship something you know nothing about; we know what we worship, for salvation comes from the Jews.
Then Paul stood up in the middle of the council and said, "Men of Athens, from every point of view I see that you are extremely religious. For as I was going about and looking at the things you worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: 'To an Unknown God.' So it is what you already worship in ignorance that I am now telling you of.
And he said to him, " 'You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, and your whole mind.'
and you must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, your whole mind, and your whole strength.'
He answered, " 'You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, your whole strength, and your whole mind,' and 'your neighbor as you do yourself.' "
And he sat down facing the treasury and watched the people dropping money into it; and many rich people were putting in large sums. A poor widow came up and dropped in two little copper coins which make a cent. And he called his disciples to him and said, "I tell you that this poor widow has put in more than all these others who have been putting money into the treasury.read more.
For they all gave of what they had to spare, but she in her want has put in everything she possessed??ll she had to live on."
I appeal to you, therefore, brothers, by this mercy of God, to offer your bodies in a living sacrifice that will be holy and acceptable to God; that is your rational worship.
But a time is coming??t is already here!??hen the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and sincerity, for the Father wants such worshipers. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship him in spirit and in sincerity."
We are the true circumcision, who worship God by his Spirit, priding ourselves only on Christ Jesus, and not relying on physical advantages,
Women for their part are to dress modestly and sensibly in proper clothes, not adorning themselves by braiding their hair or with gold or pearls or expensive clothing,
Let us, therefore, be thankful that the kingdom given to us cannot be shaken, and so please God by worshiping him with reverence and awe;
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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
You know that when you were heathen you would stray off, as impulse directed, to idols that could not speak.
false Worship » Other objects of worship » Devils worshipped
Yet what was left of mankind, those who escaped being killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands and give up worshiping demons and gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wooden idols, which cannot either see or hear or move,
false Worship » Idols characterized, as » Vanity of
So if we are God's children we ought not to imagine that the divine nature is like gold or silver or stone, wrought by human art and thought.
false Worship » Brazen serpent places devoted to idolatry » Idolatrous temples
There is danger, therefore, not only that this business of ours will be discredited, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be neglected and the magnificence of her whom all Asia and the world worship will be a thing of the past!"
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
They even made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to their idol, and held a celebration over what their own hands had made.
false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Molech, moloch, or milcom, a God of the ammonites
You offered me the tent of Moloch and the star of your god Rompha, The images you had made to worship! So I will deport 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
They called themselves wise, but they have turned into fools, and for the splendor of the immortal God they have substituted images in the form of mortal man, birds, animals, and reptiles.
You know that when you were heathen you would stray off, as impulse directed, to idols that could not speak.
As to eating things, then, that have been offered to idols, we all know that no idol has any real existence, and that there is no God but one.
false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Dagon » Dagon, a God of the philistines
false Worship » Idols characterized, as » Helpless
Even with these words they could hardly restrain the people from offering sacrifice to them.
false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Diana » Diana, a Goddess of the ephesians
A silversmith named Demetrius was making large profits for his workmen by the manufacture of silver shrines of Artemis.
At last the recorder quieted the mob and said, "Men of Ephesus, who in the world does not know that the city of Ephesus is the guardian of the temple of the great Artemis, and of the image that fell down from the sky?
When they heard this, they became very angry, and cried, "Great Artemis of Ephesus!"
false Worship » Other objects of worship » Men deified and worshipped
The crowds, seeing what Paul had done, shouted in the Lycaonian language, "The gods have come down to us in human form!"
They expected to see him swell up or suddenly fall dead, but after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and 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
So if we are God's children we ought not to imagine that the divine nature is like gold or silver or stone, wrought by human art and thought.
