13 Bible Verses about Rewards Of Ritual

To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? says the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of male goats.

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

Be not carried about with various and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with foods, which have not profited them that have been observing them.

Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; you are fallen from grace.

But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

Let no man deceive you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshiping of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, And not holding the Head, from whom all the body by joints and ligaments having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increases with the increase of God. Therefore if you be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are you subject to ordinances,read more.
(Touch not; taste not; handle not; Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?

But if you suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are you: and, Be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;

Say not, A conspiracy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A conspiracy; neither fear you their threats, nor be afraid. Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

Be exalted, LORD, in your own strength: so will we sing and praise your power.

For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and you believed him not: but the tax collectors and the harlots believed him: and you, when you had seen it, repented not afterward, that you might believe him.

For you shall heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward you.

And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them for their deeds.

Her heads judge for reward, and her priests teach for hire, and her prophets divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? no evil can come upon us.