7 Bible Verses about Rewards Of Ritual

And when you pray, do not use empty repetitions as the Gentiles do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words.

Do not be carried away by varied and strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by law; you have fallen away from grace.

In vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.'"

Let no one disqualify you for the prize by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, puffed up without cause by his fleshly mind, and not holding fast to the head, from whom the whole body, nourished and held together by its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God. If with Christ you died to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you still belonged to it, do you submit to regulations such as,read more.
"Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!" (referring to things which are all destined perish with use), according to human commandments and teachings?

But even if you should suffer for the sake of righteousness, you are blessed. Do not fear their intimidation, and do not be troubled,

For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the harlots believed him; and even when you saw it, you did not afterward repent and believe him.