16 Bible Verses about False Worship
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'This is a people that honor me with their lips, While their hearts are far removed from me; But vainly do they worship me, For they teach but the precepts of men.'"
His answer was: "It was well said by Isaiah when he prophesied about you hypocrites in the words--'This is a people that honor me with their lips, While their hearts are far removed from me; But vainly do they worship me, For they teach but the precepts of men.'
Such prohibitions appear reasonable where there is a desire for self-imposed service, and so-called 'humility,' and harsh treatment of the body, but are of no real value against the indulgence of our earthly nature.
And, when you pray, you are not to behave as hypocrites do. They like to pray standing in the Synagogues and at the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. There, I tell you, is their reward!
"Two men went up into the Temple Courts to pray. One was a Pharisee and the other a tax-gatherer. The Pharisee stood forward and began praying to himself in this way--'O God, I thank thee that I am not like other men-- thieves, rogues, adulterers--or even like this tax-gatherer. I fast twice a week, and give a tenth of everything I get to God.'read more.
Meanwhile the tax-gatherer stood at a distance, not venturing even 'to raise his eyes to Heaven'; but he kept striking his breast and saying 'O God, have mercy on me, a sinner.' This man, I tell you, went home pardoned, rather than the other; for every one who exalts himself will be humbled, while every one who humbles himself shall be exalted."
You Samaritans do not know what you worship; we know what we worship, for Salvation comes from the Jews.
So Paul took his stand in the middle of the Court, and said- -"Men of Athens, on every hand I see signs of your being very devout. For as I was going about, looking at your sacred shrines, I came upon an altar with this inscription--'To an Unknown God.' What, therefore, you worship in ignorance, that I am now proclaiming to you.
His answer was: "'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.'
His reply was--"'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thou dost thyself.'"
Then Jesus sat down opposite the chests for the Temple offerings, and watched how the people put money into them. Many rich people were putting in large sums; But one poor widow came and put in two farthings, which make a half-penny. On this, calling his disciples to him, Jesus said: "I tell you that this poor widow has put in more than all the others who were putting money into the chests;read more.
For every one else put in something from what he had to spare, while she, in her need, put in all she had--everything that she had to live on."
I entreat you, then, Brothers, by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, for this is your rational worship.
But a time is coming, indeed it is already here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father spiritually and truly; for such are the worshipers that the Father desires. God is Spirit; and those who worship him must worship spiritually and truly."
For it is we who are the circumcised--we whose worship is prompted by the Spirit of God, who exult in Christ Jesus, and who do not rely upon external privileges;
I also desire that women should adorn themselves with appropriate dress, worn quietly and modestly, and not with wreaths or gold ornaments for the hair, or pearls, or costly clothing,
Therefore, let us, who have received a kingdom that cannot be shaken, be thankful, and so offer acceptable worship to God, with awe and reverence.
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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 there was a time when you were Gentiles, going astray after idols that could not speak, just as you happened to be led.
false Worship » Other objects of worship » Devils worshipped
But those who were left of mankind, who had not perished through these Curses, did not repent and turn away from what their own hands had made; they would not abandon the worship of 'demons, and of idols made of gold or silver or brass or stone or wood, which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk';
false Worship » Idols characterized, as » Vanity of
Therefore, as the offspring of God, we must not think that the Deity has any resemblance to anything made of gold, or silver, or stone--a work of human art and imagination.
false Worship » Brazen serpent places devoted to idolatry » Idolatrous temples
So that not only is this business of ours likely to fall into discredit, but there is the further danger that the Temple of the great Goddess Artemis will be thought nothing of, and that she herself will be deprived of her splendor--though all Roman Asia and the whole world worship her."
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
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
false Worship » Other objects of worship » The golden calf made by aaron
That was the time when they made the Calf and offered sacrifice to their idol, and held festivities in honor of their own handiwork!
false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Molech, moloch, or milcom, a God of the ammonites
You took with you the tabernacle of Moloch and the Star of the god Rephan--the images which you had made to worship. Therefore I will exile you beyond Babylon.'
false Worship » Idolatry » Prophecies concerning the overthrow of
false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Chemosh
false Worship » Idols characterized, as » Degrading
Professing to be wise, they showed themselves fools; And they transformed the Glory of the immortal God into the likeness of mortal man, and of birds, and beasts, and reptiles.
You know that there was a time when you were Gentiles, going astray after idols that could not speak, just as you happened to be led.
With reference, then, to eating food that has been offered to idols-we are aware that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.
false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Dagon
false Worship » Idols characterized, as » Helpless
Even with this appeal they could hardly restrain the people from offering sacrifice to them.
false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Diana
A silversmith named Demetrius, who made silver models of the shrine of Artemis, and so gave a great deal of work to the artisans,
When the Recorder had succeeded in quieting the crowd, he said: "Men of Ephesus, who is there, I ask you, who needs to be told that this city of Ephesus is the Warden of the Temple of the great Artemis, and of the statue which fell down from Zeus?
When they heard this, the men were greatly enraged, and began shouting--"Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
false Worship » Other objects of worship » Men deified and worshipped
And the crowd, seeing what Paul had done, called out in the Lycaonian language: "The Gods have made themselves like men and have come down to us."
The natives were expecting inflammation to set in, or that he would suddenly fall dead; but, after waiting for a long time, and seeing that there was nothing amiss with 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
Therefore, as the offspring of God, we must not think that the Deity has any resemblance to anything made of gold, or silver, or stone--a work of human art and imagination.
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