13 Bible Verses about Rewards Of Ritual

“What are all your sacrifices to Me?”
asks the Lord.
“I have had enough of burnt offerings and rams
and the fat of well-fed cattle;
I have no desire for the blood of bulls,
lambs, or male goats.

When you pray, don’t babble like the idolaters, since they imagine they’ll be heard for their many words.

Don’t be led astray by various kinds of strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be established by grace and not by foods, since those involved in them have not benefited.

You who are trying to be justified by the law are alienated from Christ; you have fallen from grace.

They worship Me in vain,
teaching as doctrines the commands of men.”

Let no one disqualify you, insisting on ascetic practices and the worship of angels, claiming access to a visionary realm and inflated without cause by his unspiritual mind. He doesn’t hold on to the head, from whom the whole body, nourished and held together by its ligaments and tendons, develops with growth from God. If you died with the Messiah to the elemental forces of this world, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations: read more.
“Don’t handle, don’t taste, don’t touch”? All these regulations refer to what is destroyed by being used up; they are commands and doctrines of men.

But even if you should suffer for righteousness, you are blessed. Do not fear what they fear or be disturbed,

Do not call everything an alliance
these people say is an alliance.
Do not fear what they fear;
do not be terrified.
You are to regard only the Lord of Hosts as holy.
Only He should be feared;
only He should be held in awe.

Be exalted, Lord, in Your strength;
we will sing and praise Your might.

For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn’t believe him. Tax collectors and prostitutes did believe him, but you, when you saw it, didn’t even change your minds then and believe him.

for you will heap burning coals on his head,
and the Lord will reward you.

The same judgment will happen
to both people and priests.
I will punish them for their ways
and repay them for their deeds.

Her leaders issue rulings for a bribe,
her priests teach for payment,
and her prophets practice divination for money.
Yet they lean on the Lord, saying,
“Isn’t the Lord among us?
No disaster will overtake us.”