7 Bible Verses about Rewards Of Ritual
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And when you pray, do not repeat empty phrases as the heathen do, for they imagine that their prayers will be heard if they use words enough.
You must not be carried away with strange varieties of teaching. The true way to steadfastness of heart is through God's mercy, not through scruples about food, which have never done their adherents any good.
You people who propose to be made upright by law have finished with Christ; you have lost your hold upon God's favor.
But their worship of me is all in vain, For the lessons they teach are but human precepts.' "
No one can put you in the wrong by persisting in studied humility and the worship of angels, being absorbed in the visions he has seen, and groundlessly conceited over his mere human mind. Such people lose their connection with the head, from which the whole body through its ligaments and sinews must be governed and united if it is to grow in the divine way. If you have died with Christ to material ways of looking at things, why do you act as though you still belonged to the world, and submit to rules likeread more.
"You must not handle," "You must not taste," "You must not touch"??22 referring to things that are all meant to be used up and destroyed? This is to follow mere human rules and regulations.
Even if you should suffer for uprightness, you are blessed. But do not be afraid of them, nor be troubled,
For John came to you with a way of uprightness, and you would not believe him. The tax-collectors and prostitutes believed him, but even after seeing that, you would not change your minds and believe him!
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