13 Bible Verses about Rewards Of Ritual

What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says LORD. I have had enough of the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts. And I do not delight in the blood of bullocks or of lambs or of he-goats.

And while praying do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do, for they think that they will be heard by their much speaking.

Be not carried away by various and foreign doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established with grace, not with foods by which those who walked were not benefited.

Ye were discharged from the Christ, ye who are made righteous by law. Ye have fallen from grace.

And in vain they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.

Let no man umpire against you insisting on self-mortification, and worship of the heavenly agents, intruding in things that he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh, and not holding to the head, from whom all the body, being supplied and held together through the connections and bonds, develops its growth from God. If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why do ye submit to rules, as though living in the world?read more.
Do not handle, nor taste, nor touch (which are all things for consumption by use), according to the commandments and teachings of men?

But even if ye should suffer because of righteousness, ye are blessed. But do not fear their terror nor be shaken,

Say ye not, A conspiracy, concerning all of which this people shall say, A conspiracy, nor fear ye their fear, nor be in dread [of it]. LORD of hosts, him ye shall sanctify, and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

Be thou exalted, O LORD, in thy strength. We will sing and praise thy power.

For John came to you in a way of righteousness, and ye did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the harlots believed him. And having seen it, ye did not repent afterward to believe him.

For thou will heap coals of fire upon his head, and LORD will reward thee.

And it shall be, like people, like priest. And I will punish them for their ways, and will requite them their doings.

The heads of it judge for a bribe, and the priests of it teach for a wage, and the prophets of it divine for money. Yet they lean upon LORD, and say, Is not LORD in the midst of us? No evil shall come upon us.