12 Bible Verses about Lack Of Meaning

Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear towards me is taught by the precept of men:

This people draw nigh to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

He answered and said to them, Well hath Isaiah prophesied concerning you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoreth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

Thou hast planted them, yes, they have taken root: they grow, yes, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins.

And they come to thee as the people come, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.

Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.

But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

And they have not cried to me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.

And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.

O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called;

But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase to more ungodliness.

For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.