11 Bible Verses about Lack Of Meaning
Most Relevant Verses
And LORD said, Inasmuch as this people draw near [me] with their mouth, and honor me with their lips, but have removed their heart far from me, {but in vain they worship me (LXX/NT)}, {teaching the commandments and doctrines of men
This people comes near me with their mouth, and honors me with their lips, but their heart is far distant from me.
And having answered, he said to them, Well did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far distant from me.
Thou have planted them. Yea, they have taken root, they grow. Yea, they bring forth fruit. Thou are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.
And they come to thee as the people come, and they sit before thee as my people. And they hear thy words, but do not do them. For with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.
Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit. He speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him.
And while praying do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do, for they think that they will be heard by their much speaking.
And they have not cried to me with their heart, but they howl upon their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They rebel against me.
And their sayings appeared before them as idle talk, and they disbelieved them.
O Timothy, keep the entrustment, avoiding the profane babblings and objections of the falsely-called knowledge,
