12 Bible Verses about Lack Of Meaning
Most Relevant Verses
Then the Lord said: "Because these people draw near with their mouths and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, worship of me has become merely like rules taught by human beings.
He told them, "Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites. As it is written, "These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.
You plant them and they take root, they grow and bear fruit. "You are near to us," they say with their mouths, but the truth is that you're far from their hearts.
Then they come to you as a group, sit down right in front of you as if they were my people, hear your words and then they don't do what you say because they're seeking only their own desires, they pursue ill-gotten profits, and they keep following their own self-interests.
Their tongue is a deadly arrow that speaks deceit. With his mouth a person says, "Peace,' to his friend, but inwardly he sets a trap for him.
"When you are praying, don't say meaningless things like the unbelievers do, because they think they will be heard by being so wordy.
They will not cry to me from their heart instead, they wail on their beds. They gather together to eat and drink, turning away from me.
But what they said seemed nonsense to them, so they did not believe them.
Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid the pointless discussions and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge.
for as he thinks within himself, so he is. "Eat and drink!" he'll say to you, but his heart won't be with you.
